Mastery Rank Data

You'd be surprised, we've seen such random reports from people who hit rank 9 where some of them have hundreds of things less complete than me but still have it, and others have done 99.99% of things in the game but don't. There's definitely something we don't fully grasp haha.

I did Sheol A MM15 solo and it took me some months of relavitely relaxed activity, done it on BLU.
On each run I was popping 2 NMs (floor 1, floor 3, popping them on #5 and #7 makes them too hard to be soloed with trusts, and also I was popping on #1 the "more annoying" NM and keeping #3 for the easier one)
On each run I was getting ~40 Izzat by doing several groups and halo on floor 1.
Couple of groups and Halo on floor 3, then Halo (and maybe 1 or 2 group depending on placement) on floor 5.
Was doing NMs while waiting for Unbridled cooldown or while waiting the 1min for the slept/cursed ones to die.

If everything went right I barely had the time to open a couple of coffers, hoping at least one transformed in Aurum. If not, well, better luck next time lol.


Anyway, the same approach can't really be applied to Sheol B.
Halo mobs can't be slept, mobs level are generally 2 levels higher (floor#1 B is more or less like floor#3 A), the NMs have adds and are sometimes very annoying, the zone layout is awful, also there are mobs that have true sight and, last but not least, while in A you could Cruel Joke like >80% of mob families, in B you can do it for like, what, 55%? 60%?
Also good luck training a full floor of mobs on you like you can do on A floor#1, even with a good Evasion build.

So tl;dr if you wanna do it solo, it's not a real solo, it's a multibox solo. If you have multiple accounts then sure, if you're like me and you don't or simply dislike multiboxing, then you gotta get more humans.
I've seen occasional Sheol B shouts on Asura, sadly always when I couldn't join.

As for Sheol C, the same thing I said for B applies, but it's even worse.
Thankfully though I'm sure 90% of us are way past done with Sheol C objective and just need a couple of MM levels coming from doing all the NMs (because nobody ever fights the Turtle, the Khimaira and the Hydra)

There's NM pops on every floor, it's the halos that are every 2.

My typical strat was to do them on THF for A and B. Floor 1 I would clear out the halo and the pack around it (12 izzat), pop the NM, then run to floor 2. Pop the NM there, run to floor 3. Do halo and pack (24 izzat). Kill one more pack along the way, possibly around chests (26 izzat). Pop two chests (-10) and two coffers (-16) and hope one or both upgrade. Spam keys and hope for no mimic if aurum. Run to end and touch for some free hides/scales if time.

Doing this did three NMs per run minus failures, a handful of nostos towards the 1600, and an aurum every so often. Finished all objectives roughly around the same runs for both zones.

Any guesses? Non title NMs that are tracked somehow on the backend? Items obtained? REMAP's?

I'm not near done with all the things I can keep trying obviously, but the list is really narrowing as of late. I'm really pushing off monstrosity for campaign.. and also just because its not really time sensitive otherwise

There's NM pops on every floor, it's the halos that are every 2.

My typical strat was to do them on THF for A and B.

^ I did the same and farmed a Lycopodium Earring since it's a unique effect... because why not. But for the most part grouped up with others and did the relaxation maze and just traded the MMM card and killed the ixion. The only reason behind this was that I was too lazy to swap around my tabula back and forth between the revitalizer maze and a "farming" maze

Regardless, if you can, team up with others and cram multiple clears in each hour to speed up your progress

EDIT: OH! Also... whichever NM you do... Don't 1 shot it without generating Enmity 1st... or it will NOT count as a kill and result in a loss.

Many times I went in on RNG and barraged it as it spawned, but occasionally either by Crit or Earp proc, the Barrage would do 2-3x damage and 1 shot it, resulting in a loss

Out of curiosity, how did you handle Halos on THF in B?
I mean I can see it happen in A on floor 1 and 3 maybe, but past that and especially in B how did you manage to survive with like 15+ mobs bombarding you with attacks and whatnot?
It's not always exactly feasible to pull them one by one, even because you need to kill the halo itself to be able to attack the halo mobs, and more often than not mobs are not placed in a way that allows for single target pulling. And waiting for them to move to the perfect position simply doesn't work out, you lose too much time and have "only" 30 mins in each run.
I know on BLU with trusts even with my DT sets, phalanx, cocoon and Prot5 up I would've had several issues if I didn't have means to crowdcontrol them through Dream Flower, Sheep Song and Entomb.
Without even considering the fact that making so trusts correctly refresh haste2 can sometimes be a pain (on BLU you just erratic flutter and ignore their stupid AI)

I have seriously no idea. By all metrics I have essentially finished everything in the game except for my tracking of:

* 5 obtainable titles (1000 mazes, escutcheon, 3x master trials)
* V25 Arebati kill
* 3 vorseals (final 360 dragon kill of each, not rushing)
* 3 permanent KIs (two I-Orche tunes, escutcheon aurum tome)
* 2 mounts (moogle and bubble crab *** you SE mog bonanza ***)
* I guess a slew of REMAP weapons
* Limbus climbs if those count, barely touched this shitty content
* The elephant in the room, 99% of monstrosity (one species to 90 only)

My current plan is slow rolling MMM mazes to 1k and daily dragon kills while I am working on my final V25 clear, maybe crystal paradise (not even trying the last two's *** lol), a handful of weapons in progress, and the stupid spirit grind for shield.

If I complete that stuff, effectively the only things I'll be missing in the game are Oathsworn Blade and Wings of War outside of monstrosity, and if I get to that point it kind of proves beyond a doubt that it's needed for 9... except that I'm pretty sure there was one or two players with rank 9 with barely any and way less other stuff than me. So who *** knows at this point lol.

For all we know it counts everything from days played, mobs killed, crafts done/HQed, or *** number of times you chatted in unity or something insane. We just have no way to really know for what counts without some visual bar representation of progress that we could use to at least isolate things.

My money is on Monstrosity. Ive seen ALOT of accounts, the ones with alot of Monstrosity are always the ones the MR comes in high

Been trying to drill in on this, I have yet to rank 9 similar to Kayte. Specific to Monstrosity i have unlocked everything and got all mons to 60 without movement on Rank. Currently now pushing all to 99 to see if that moves the needle. What helps people tho is: What in monstrosity counts: Mons level, Mons unlocked, Instincts / Skills unlocked, or just get everything to 99 (Done).

I have never seen a MR8 account without significant Monstrosity.