Mastery Rank Data

Oh I think I know what happened, the Chocobo Digging Skillup+ campaign is down! That's why it took me so many more successful digs than expected.

Yeah. Week break in the middle for the bout

Actually focusing on my mastery rank now, so posting for tracking.

When I started paying attentionI was at rank 5 with the following:

• Time played: 445 days

• Missions: Zilart/Promathia Done but no apocalypse nigh, toau/wotg/adoulin/abyssea/voidwatch/rov/tvr done, sandoria/windurst not stated, bastok rank 6

• Completed quests: No idea, not many new ones done since. RoEs at 318 completed

• Combat/Magic skills: Everything except scythe capped. 20/22 jobs at 99, 19/22 mastered, most over 30

• Synthesis: Goldsmithing 110, stage 4 escutcheon, all subs at 50+, 3 at 70. Cooking/Fishing 0

• Trusts: Missing 16

• Battle contents: Completions on a lot?

• Non battle contents: Not much done. Never started mog garden, bare minimum of coalitions done

• REMA: 20, prime: 1 stage 3

Since then: Still rank 5.

• Completed Bastok, Crystaline Prophecy

• Completed ~130 RoEs (422 total)

• Up to rank 3 across mog garden stuff, almost legend on 1st coalition

• Some small amount of quests completed

• 3 Relic, 1 Mythic completed

• Bastok missions complete

• 2 Abyssea fame maxed

• 1 coalition mastered

• Enabled all missing HP, SG, and Abyssea warps

• 470 titles as of 4/13/26

Will add some observations.

I was rank 6 pre-rank-10-update, rank 7 after.

Rank 10 San'dOria. Never swapped nations nor started other nation's missions.

All missions completed etc.

Something like 600-800 unique ROEs (don't remember).

~1400 deeds of heroism.

Mog garden quests up to max rank.

All Adoulin quests, Ygnas unlocked. All coalitions max rank.

Max fame everywhere.

All trusts unlocked. Fellow lvl75(?).

Battle content: V25 T1-T2 Odyssey. Some V25 T3 (2 or 3). V20 T4. All Dynamis full clears, all Dynamis titles. All Voidwatch quests and kills, Provenance included. Most but not all VD(*) HTMBs, missing the alliance i119 Ark Angel fight. Completed the original lvl 75 alliance Ark Angel fight and quest. Cleared Neo-Limbus full climbs and KIs - a couple full +4 set upgrades for both AF and relic.

Mastery Rank 45 in Odyssey.

Moblin Maze only up to unlocking revitiliser temp item.

Legion in a couple regions, forgot the rank. Up to the one you had to farm for blue mage spells.
Most whm/rdm/blm/brd/blu spells but not all of them. Missing tons of spells.

All combat skills capped at Warrior ML50. Four jobs ML50, couple 40-45. Pup lvl1. Smn lvl1. Pld still locked.

REMAs: 2 Mythic, 2 Ergon, 1 Relic, 2 Empy, 5(?) Aeonic, one stage 5 one stage 4 prime.

Crafting: One 110, subs capped. Fishing <20.

Raised my own chocobo way back at launch, never touched it again. Have my personal whistle which never used cause the bird is slow to load.

Synergy 80 (capped). Made all the mog house furniture for my 110 craft, plus required KIs for them. Also got the lvl 70 bought with points items from smithing in order to synergise them for the synergy boosts.

Bought all the available crafting clothing and skill items and KIs, excluding shield related KIs.



From a couple other reports, noting that quests per city nation seem to matter a lot, while nation story lines count for something. Note I was rank 7 with only one nation story line done.

Adoulin in particular seems to give you points in several categories including coalitions rank, quests within Adoulin and mog garden quests/storylines.

All jobs 99 counts for something, but not much I believe (I never unlocked pld).

I also don't think AF completion matters much, I never got most of it nor did most of the quests (used vouchers). I do have a couple full quest lines completed for AFs - most probably first completion gets you most of the points.

I'm rank 8:
I'm working on:
1. Keep doing Master Trials
2. Get the Vanabout title this time
3. Finish the Crafting Shield
4. Keep getting Dynamis - D unlocks and upgrading relic

When I have more time, I'll start running around zones and talking to every NPC to make sure I'm not missing any quest clean-up dialogue.

Get those last 2 vorseals! What are they? >_>;

My guesses are "kill 75,000 monsters" and "kill 110,000 monsters" (in Escha zones) for the final 2x HP/MP.

Could be "kill 2,000 NMs", but with 10 Aeonics that's already a significant chunk of the way there and if you're only missing two vorseals you logically must have "kill 50,000 normal monsters in Escha zones" which spawns some number of NMs, surely.

Could also be missing 240/360 kills on one DI dragon (or 360 on two), but everything else is included in the other stuff (titles, mostly)

It's the 2 Vorseals I miss myself.
If someone wants to set up a party and let me leech for a night or two, I'd be very thankful! :-P
I'm at like 65k kills or something like that.

I'm missing the last two dragon vorseals, up to around 300 kills of each. When I'm done the crafting shield and this vanabout stuff, I'll go back to that.

With that said, I really doubt those play a big role in the grand scheme of Mastery rank up, then again who knows?

I wonder if any of us has been following similar discussions going on in the JP community? Did they ever find out something about it?
Would love for SE to give us some more details about it in the next AMA Vana'diel.
They don't have to spill every single detail, but at least give us some info here & there would be apreciated.

Seriously. I assume it's a points thing. Some number of points for objective like all quests in bastok or max fame in area, or whatever, with x points for rank 2, 2x points for rank 3, etc.

The question is what are points given for and what are the tiers for level up?

Time to ask the only thread who would ever even possibly know something, again.



What are the "Ranks", and can you ever get anything other than 5? I haven't tested Voucher 9 with Supreme Might or anything, that's the only guess I've got, I'm just spamming it for easy clears / the occasional Revitalizer.

FWIW Finished Fellow to 99 & got Gold Mentor and NO movement on Rank. (Also at this point pretty confident nothing in Limbus contributes yet)

Next steps: Vanabout Title, More Moogle mastery, Last chocograph, and few more monstrosity

For all you chocobo diggers out there, do your lvling up in the past zones during vanabout, I got all 4 bottled pixies in one days worth of stamina in rolanberry fields (S)

Keep in mind you need your own chocobo mount to do this because rental chocobos can't dig in the past.

Oh damn, I never noticed this before. I've got some digging to do, and not just the choco variety!

In my experience... when defeating the mob for the 1st time, it went straight to 5, and repeat kills never changed the number. I've tried using "negative" modifier runes as well to impact it

I'm pretty sure that this maze used to be tuned so that you might be beating on an nm for 15 mins without killing it, and rewards were based on how much hp you chipped off of it. Ranks are probably in 20% HP increments.

This matches my experience as well...
so can someone who hasn't killed them all try leaving early or deliberately stalling it out and see what they get if they do this?

Reason I came to post: Chocobo digging campaign's back on starting today!

Have we determined if the egg cap can produce skill ups or not and hence if it's worth using for skill ups?

I think it does work?
This is the update of my last 2 levels. Sky Blue Racing Silks, Choco Helm, Choco Rope.

47>48 = 97
48>49 = 109

The big difference here is that I reached my 200 "successful digs" in 375 total digs.
Usually it would take me ~410 total digs.
Likewise it took me a bit less than 40 mins to reach that result. Normally it would take me 46-47 mins.

The rate of eggs seems to be low (at least in Konschtat Highlands).
I digged like ~20 total eggs.

Not sure, what do you make out of it? Pure coincidence or what?

Total digs to reach 200 successful ones: 385
Total time: ~41min

49>50 = 106 digs
50>51 = 95+ (haven't reached 51 yet)

Wether my higher skill is increasing my TotalDigs:SuccessfulDigs ratio, or the fact that I gathered some eggs with the Egg Helm is changing the result, I guess?
If it's the latter I'd be leaning to say the additiona findings you get from the egg helm (not many) do contribute to the total amount of potential skillups.

Sechs, super quick question for you: Ever dig up a Red Jar?

Trying to put this "test items" nonsense to bed again.

i dug 1 up last night in batillia downs

Dunno about Red Jar, rings a bell but I'm not sure I've ever dug it up. Not today, at least.

Today's stats:

Total number of digs to reach 200 successful digs: 392
Total time: ~42

50>51 = 104
51>52 = 107

Data might seem to indicate stuff dug up with Egg Helm do contribute to skillup, but that might be confirmation bias on my side.
To truly have a 100% confirmation of that someone with Egg Helm would need to dig with a character with zero wing skill. At low levels skillups are very frequent.
If you ever get a skillup message after digging up one of the Egg Helm items (Bird Egg, Colored Egg, Hard-boiled Egg, Soft-boiled Egg, and Sairui-Ran) that would be 100% confirmation that the additional items from Egg Helm do indeed contribute to potential skillups and that would make Egg Helm really nice to use while skilling up.
Considering that it's a small difference, it's like ~20digs per session of 200 successful digs (at least with my choco stats) so it's... a truly small difference. Every bit helps though?


One thing though, at least in today and yesterday's sessions (but maybe more) I noticed I never dug up those items that give you Conquest points based on your STR rating.
Is it because I have no Signet? Or because I'm in Konschtat Hightlands and you don't dig those "items" there and only in the initial zones?
Because I seem to recall I never had Signet to begin with and yet in East Sarutabaruta I was digging them up frequently.
If it's a matter of "zone" then that would imply that digging in one of those zones should grant faster skillups? I mean less time spent to reach the 200/day value.

Was really hoping for a conclusive no.

I'm 99+% sure that "test items" do not exist, this isn't a craft, chocobo digging just levels up when you dig, but I sure would love proof that can't get countered with "well i read a rumor from 2006"

(and I'e only done 0-26 myself in East Sarutabaruta so they can just move the goalposts to "clearly it's a 30 cap test")

im tellin ya the red jar exists in chocobo digging i got 1 last night lvling my wings to 16 i got it in batillia downs

Conclusive no here. I levelled 0-100 entirely in western altepa, no red jars.

Couple of posts about it here: https://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/52191/chocobo-digging-observations#3726918

Yes, I'm aware of that, thank you :)
Excellent, guess I should have started by asking the entire crowd, thank you very much!

Is Red Jar the only unique item/furnishing to choco digging or are there other items in specific zones that can only be obtained via digging?