Mastery Rank Data

Run the lua. Do missing stuff. There are no hard caps.

To clarify, you caught novel fish, skilled up, and completed an RoE?

If by "novel" you mean "new, never fished it before", then yes, caught all 6 fish in forêt de hennetiel which trigger the 75 + ROE. No skill up. The RoE was trigger but unclaimed due to my full inventory (RoE 75 is 3 like).

My first thought was 75 is some kind of lvl/reward for “MR points ?!?” Maybe. I don’t know, but I have only done stuff that people have clearly say it MR up, someone posted the 75, did it.

Edit: will probably drop the medal and finish the fishes and see what happens

I finally hit Mastery Rank 8 today! I got it from completing the windy quest "Water Way to Go!" There's no title for it, but I've gotten several in the last few days. Likewise, I've really been trying to get as many campaign ops done as possible.

I'm almost to my 50th first place finish in Chocobo Circuit Races. Whenever I get a chance, I'll ditch my Medal of Altana and see what I can do it push back to Rank 8. Are there any suggestions for what I should do? (Preferably not Monstrosity if I can avoid it)

Besides the suggestions from the previous page, I'd like to know whether killing NMs that don't grant titles helps with MR.

yes!
...no :(

XIChecklist reported that one of my mules ( that has done most of the main story / random stuff ) ranked down to 3 the first time I logged in post-patch for login points. It's just a mule, so I'm not sure if it was actually 4 or not, but XIC had been loaded plenty of times while logging it in previously.

Ok, had to have a friend do that for me, but there my XIchecklist for MR8, sub 7000 (got 20 fishes and 1 mog garden title since my original rank up). Don’t know how to do the hiding thing so apologies

-Mastery Rank: 8
-Checklist Progress 6936/12326
======= General =======
-RoE 688/1104
-Zones visited 284/292
-Titles 709/1049
-Missions 618/829
-Quests 508/1110
-Magic 604/881
-Warps 353/365
======= Story =======
-San d'Oria Missions 20/20
-Bastok Missions 20/20
-Windurst Missions 20/20
-RotZ Missions 17/17
-CoP Missions 63/63
-Assaults 52/52
-ToAU Missions 47/47
-Campaign Ops 35/246
-WoTG Missions 53/53
-ACP Missions 11/11
-MKD Missions 14/14
-ASA Missions 14/14
-SoA Missions 110/110
-RoV Missions 97/97
-TVR Missions 45/45
-San d'Oria Quests 34/81
-Bastok Quests 19/93
-Windurst Quests 22/90
-Jeuno Quests 62/146
-Other Quests 44/90
-Outlands Quests 12/57
-Aht Urhgan Quests 29/72
-Crystal War Quests 46/91
-Abyssea Quests 45/191
-Adoulin Quests 105/109
-Coalition Assignments 90/90
======= Key Items =======
-Permanent Key Items 250/356
-Magical Maps 110/116
-Mounts 36/40
-Claim Slips 0/89
-Abyssea 81/210
-Voidwatch 40/80
-Mog Garden 57/124
-Active Effects 23/45
-Atmacite Levels 22/600
======= Magic =======
-White Magic 169/185
-Black Magic 147/169
-Summoner Pacts 21/22
-Ninjutsu 20/37
-Bard Songs 97/103
-Blue Magic 0/196
-Geomancy 52/60
-Trusts 98/109
-Corsair Rolls 31/31
-Puppetmaster Attachments 84/127
======= Leveling =======
-Craft Skills 121/790
-Wing Skill 42/100
-Merit Points 733/919
-Job Points Maxed 15/22
-Master Levels 578/1100 (Highest: 50)
-Alter Ego Points 241/550
======= Warps =======
-Home Points 121/121
-Survival Guides 94/97
-Waypoints 51/51
-Telepoints 9/9
-Cavernous Maws 9/9
-Lycopodium 3/3
-Eschan Portals 32/32
-Outposts 17/17
-Proto-Waypoints 17/26
======= Other Content =======
-Fishes Caught 96/164
-Ergon Locus 15/30
======= Monstrosity =======
-Monster Levels Maxed 0/64
-Race/Job Instincts 5/32
-Monster Variants 1/89
-Monster Instincts 1/192
======= Battle Content =======
-MMM Vouchers Unlocked 0/9
-MMM Runes Unlocked 6/100
-MMM Maze count 10/1000
-Meeble Burrows Goal #3 2/32
-Sheol A (2/20)
-Sheol B (6/31)
-Sheol C (9/11)
-Sheol Gaol Vengeance (390/425)
-Eschan Vorseals (169/185)
-Emporox Goodness 6/13
======= Titles =======
-Titles 709/1049
--Battlefield titles 9/9
--Monster Rearing titles 11/14
--Missions titles 126/127
--Ballista titles 0/2
--Master Trials titles 1/7
--Vagary titles 5/5
--Escha titles 35/35
--Delve titles 6/6
--Salvage titles 4/8
--Clothcraft titles 0/4
--Fishing titles 1/8
--Item: Aeonic Weapons titles 1/1
--Einherjar titles 1/2
--BCNM titles 13/14
--Limbus titles 4/4
--Abyssea titles 36/69
--Quests titles 165/359
--Stronghold Invasion titles 3/3
--Vana'Bout titles 1/1
--NPC: Parike-Poranke titles 0/2
--Moblin Maze Mongers titles 0/5
--NPC: Octavien titles 3/3
--Sinister Reign titles 1/1
--Mog Garden titles 27/33
--Leathercraft titles 0/4
--Cooking titles 0/4
--Woodworking titles 0/4
--Bonecraft titles 0/4
--Nyzul Isle titles 1/1
--Skirmish titles 4/7
--Dynamis titles 27/28
--Smithing titles 0/4
--Goldsmithing titles 0/4
--Odyssey titles 17/17
--Walk of Echoes titles 26/30
--Sortie titles 5/5
--Voidwatch titles 13/17
--Alchemy titles 0/4
--Voidwalker titles 6/7
--Meeble Burrows titles 0/10
--Conquest Points titles 30/30
--NM titles 55/61
--Legion titles 4/5
--Wildskeeper Reive titles 9/9
--HTMB titles 32/32
--Incursion titles 1/3
--Campaign Ops titles 1/1
--Omen titles 6/6
--Chocobo Racing titles 2/6

That really illustrates how much they lowered the bar for rank 8. I have some post from around 3 years ago with probably 1020 titles and couldn't hit rank 8, but now you can with 700 (and almost no monstrosity!). Congrats!

"It's all about the Titles Master Levels." ?

Between mine and others, first thing that come to mind with people that have 8K but mr7, is the lack of NM titles

Got Maze Overlord title and no rank up from 8 to 9 unfortunately.

Anyway, Are these sandworm location positions accurate, according to JP wiki? Are there any others?

東ロンフォール〔Ｓ〕 (East Ronfaure) (G-9)(I-11)(J-6)
バタリア丘陵〔Ｓ〕 (Batallia Downs) (G-7)(H-6)(I-7)
北グスタベルグ〔Ｓ〕 (North Gustaberg) (E-7)(E-10)(G-9)
ロランベリー耕地〔Ｓ〕 (Rolanberry Fields) (G-7)(G-11)(J-7)
西サルタバルタ〔Ｓ〕 (West Sarutabaruta) (G-10)(H-6)(J-5)
メリファト山地〔Ｓ〕 (Meriphataud Mountains) (E-6)(E-10)(K-11)
ソロムグ原野〔Ｓ〕 (Sauromugue Champaign) (H-7)(K-6)(K-10)

Just dinged MR8 after completing the yagudo stronghold fight in the past:

You guys think the AF from the coffers count toward the AF quests completion?

I found that Sandworm tends to roam quite far, though I most often (but not always) found him in the vicinity of the campaign forts. Several times I found him tucked into the ruins in the southwest of East Ronf (S), and once I even found him sat in the far southwestern tip of Saruta, right on the coast. In Rolanberry I once found him on the far east of the zone, down in the mountain pass with the gatehouse going towards the pond. So if you're trying to be thorough, check everywhere.
The only zone I'm unsure about is NGusta; I never saw him "up" the ramp on the Port Basty side, only down by the outpost. Not sure if he can spawn up there or path up and down the ramp (although campaign mobs can and do, so it's not implausible). I would assume he probably can, but less often.

For a quick scan I'd do a loop of each zone between the survival guide and campaign fort on chocobo, widescanning along the way to check the "usual" areas across all six zones quite quickly. Then I'd do a more thorough run through, looping around the whole zone (which is a great time to skill up your chocobo digging, if not already done). He and Dark Ixion always appear at the very bottom of the widescan list. Ixion despawns during campaign, Sandworm does not.

Back in the days we used to say that Sandworm always popped in the vicinity of the fort or the Maw.
Probably spawns close to the fort and eventually roams up to the maw if left unchecked for too long?

For anybody having this issue, Hipotion is aware of it and is working on it.

I've been providing him lotsa data (been having that error for a while).
It seems to be a problem caused by a small error in the xml.
While we try to perfectly understand where in the xml this error is and how it sometimes happens and sometimes not, there is a boring "temporary solution".

You can rename your xml config file if you wanna keep a backup, but basically need to create a new xml file. Which means re-talking to all the npcs etc.
Once an XML gets populated with the error, it's only gonna get worse (until a perfect solution to prevent it is found).

I'm sure the issue will be resolved soon, but until then if you're in a hurry to "fix" it, just create a new xml file from scratch for your character. Should fix it.

I can replicate. Recreating only fixes it for one load. I'll try to help debug later today.

Yes, noticed that, about to start a discussion about it on windower discord if you perchance want to follow and/or contribute

Monstrosity campaign is on. And others, obviously, but I know where the Monstrosity sickos post. See you all in Buburimu!

can vouch that it also spawns upstairs on the ledge. Have found it next to the ramp upstairs. As I was camping it at the time, I know it spawned there and didn't climb up.

I've noticed this, especially when entering Odyssey (not that Odyssey is causing it, just that's where I tend to notice it).

How do you force it to happen?

Edit: I see it's already been addressed in a new update of xic...