Mastery Rank Data

Seconding this, it's exactly what I usually do (I'm at ~800 clears now). Go in on DNC, NFR+Reverse, Rudra's for a 1-shot kill, exit. It's also one of the easiest ways to farm marbles.

As far as "progression" goes: there's a handful of potential things of interest. First is buying the tabula and runes with marbles. Second is unlocking titles by clearing a large number of runs. Third is getting the remaining runes as drops in the dungeon.

"Lost and Found" changes the loot table for each kind of maze. It doesn't necessarily just "increase drop rates." In particular, certain maze types drop unique runes; "Lost and Found" will swap those out I'm pretty sure. So if you're trying to get fishing runes from the fishing map, I wouldn't use "Lost and Found."

However, certain runes are exclusive to the "Lost and Found" pool. I used some combination of FFXIclopedia and the JP wiki to help me sort that out.

There's this old site MysticDhalmelHerder. At the bottom there's a "Rune Spreadsheet" that indicates which rows come only from Lost and Found (yellow highlighted ones). Doesn't give all the info (I do think L&F gives different runes based on voucher type?) but has that, at least.

All nations gain access to those OPs but may require different levels of reconnaissance, so may not be available directly after tally.

I have written down the following in my notes:
Kinslayer: Baileys -> Recon 6
Kinslayer: Keep -> Recon 8
Fiat Lux requires access to Throne Room
No notes on Bailey Borer

I found that only the northland-specific OPs, not the ones for the castle, required specific nation control, like Vanguard-X IV, Crimson Domino IV, Steel Resolve IV, Hazerdous Materials I...

Sorry, I'm dumb. Does that just mean I should be spamming some Offensive Operations to unlock Kinslayer/Fiat Lux? Me and a few others grinded out campaigns last night and I believe we should have Fiat Lux available for all nations (everything owned except Beadeaux, Oztroja and Fort Karugo Narugo), but it's currently not showing up in Windurst and I don't wanna change nations until I finish them here.

Edit: Nevermind, a nearby NPC seems to request battle strategies with Reconnaissance being an option. I'm guessing this is what you're talking about.
Edit2: Searching "Reconnaisance" in this thread brought up a post suggesting to go farm the SKCNM boxes to raise Recon level so I guess I'll go do that.

Something doesn't seem right for me being rank 4.

RoE: 577
Missions done: All Bastok, Windurst, Zilart, CoP, WotG, Aht Urghan, Adoulin, RoV, TVR, Crystalline, all Assaults. (Missing Sandoria, Moogle, Shantotto)
Quests: 424
Titles: 516

All jobs 99
5/22 Mastered

All HPs, all survival guide, lyco warps, cavernous maws, all regular waypoints. Missing a few outpost warps, protowaypoints and I do not have all warps in abys.

From my understanding, I should be Rank 5 now, but nothing yet. I figured doing all assaults would put me over, but nope. I have a fair amount of monstrosity done, but given category completions might be a bit thing - not sure if I should try the rest of the AF quests.

~550 titles will probably do it

No mention of rema or crafts or content (meebles salvage woe etc) (h)nms no abyssea? spells trust count.

Like I understand it seems like you've done a lot. You've done maybe 25%.

rank 8 with 10241 / 11836 things done according to xichecklist
1071/1072 roes
993 / 1048 titles etc

etc with no rank 9 insight yet

mostly ki's missing to make the most of xichecklist

How much of that is monstrosity?

I'm in a very similar spot with 1 monster lv 68 and nothing else... so i'm pretty sure that's what is holding me back, but I'm busy crossing my t's and dotting my i's on other time sensitive stuff

Can //xic log main and hide it in a spoiler tag for easier comparions.

Finished Dream Race and last Ops tonight... still 8 =D

I suspect Rank Up conditions for Rank 9 (and even 10 if it is accessible) require a 100% completion in a content bucket. You could try the following areas of completion to determine which is a satisfactory Rank Up condition: the last 2 Fishing Titles, Skirmish Title, Choco Racing C1 Title, Meebles Gaol #3, etc.

About your MMM Mazes unlocked, do you just go in do the kill that Byrth suggested earlier?

36/64 species
58/89 monster variants
32/32 race/job instincts
108/192 monster instincts

all the monsters are lvl 99 that i have leveled

I WISH i had done as Byrth had suggested, given how many SP resets has happened throughout the years!

If you're just spamming it for the titles, Voucher 7 with Runes 005,016,054 & 094 will give you a faster kill speed, as there's no NPC interaction to pop the mob, and drops the RR3 mamool ja earring at a decent rate.

I tend to go on blu - enter, Burst affinity, floe and done.

edit - changed typo on rune number, thanks Byrth!

Did you mean 094?

-Fill out claim slips because it's easy, even if you need to redo some af quests and camp the AH for level 30rse for each race. Many of the sets are just nq conquest point buys

-Get at least one monster to max level

-Finish whatever two quest titles you still need

-Finish choco titles and all choco races for each nation

-As many crafting titles as possible (I think my rank 8 was smithing mitts? Maybe?)

Thats all easyish stuff to work towards

One that isn't so easy, and that I never finished but probably matters in a sense because it's "category completion" is all 3 star goals in meebles. That.... Seems like it would be a pain, especially with the bomb one

RSE is on the curio moogle.

The bomb one is the only one I'm afraid to do solo. I just blew through all of Sauromugue solo and had no trouble - even the one where you feed the Meeble 15 worms wasn't bad at all, though it did take more than 10 of the 15 minutes - but the bomb one. The bomb one!

That god damn meebles bomb one is such horseshit

But there are Djinn. If you /run and match day-element they get instant tp

Blm Aoe -aga too etc

Honestly I truly thought this didnt count for anything... I guess I can bang this out. We're talking about THIS right? https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Category:Armor_Storage_NPCs


Extremely Discerning Individual and Consort Candidate. I'll put those on the backburner. I'm also missing both poop magic 10k trades titles... uhhhg


Working on this now... and I had planned to do all 3 nations just because (once I get my 50 wins and Ci stakes to not drop any SVP)... but do you think it actually tracks all 3 nations? There's no additional titles, its mostly just hidden data.

On top of the races, I'm doing my daily Hot n Cold for chocographs. I've got 4 so far so 2? more (10 day ones)


This is my current daily grind, gathering GP. I refuse to commit to an escutcheon while i'm dropping and re-leveling crafting skills to earn all the guild point KI's and items. I'll do a shield once all 9 guilds are 100%. I'm a couple months off from that considering the 2+month timegate per guild


I did all but 2. The mining one where you have to dodge maroliths proved too obnoxious solo, and I'd need to team up with someone. I can go bang those out this weekend I suppose. The bomb one took like 6 attempts to 3 star solo, but tricks to feeding the djinns TP helped. The regular bombs were more annoying, i'd gather tons and spam feed tp with dia while meleeing w/ hedron dagger


Now that Ops are done this is my new top priority. I've got a mandy to 64. I'm gonna 99 it then focus on unlocking as much as possible before 99'ing anything else


Given all of this, I've got to be darn close

Additionally, this week I plan to farm the last 4 MMM runes i'm missing (escort mission ones) and get my last 30 mazes complete in the process for Overlord

Also I'm actively doing Sheol A and B NM's to try to MM45

I did! thanks, corrected on OP.

^ 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

I use a revitalization team copy maze from duplidoc for when i need SP back, so i don't have to swap runes back and forth. You can even register your own if there isn't a copy on your server. You can also copy your quick kill maze so friends/mules without the runes can get you in for more kills.

Correct me if I'm wrong but there has been no accounts of people ranking on this. Its tracked in plugin because it has KI's associated to it, but the tracker is not 100% 1:1 with Master Rank.

I mean... Screw it, it's mostly a little bit of gil items

Iirc HiPotion tested whether they mattered and reclaimed a lot of them without ranking down, so the idea was that they probably don't matter.

They matter to me! *cry*

Echoing Dex here in that I was able to 3-star every Meebles solo with 1-5 attempts except for the mining one that is literally impossible to complete without position hacking, Battallia Assistant #3.

Even if you theoretically got the ore on the first mining attempt and it was the closest possible point every single time and never changed, and your pick never broke, and you had capped movespeed the entire time, you can't hit 9 ores in 15 minutes. It's the only one that's actually impossible to do solo.

Add in the marolith RNG (sometimes they'll spawn in a pattern impossible to not aggro), points shifting, axe breaking, etc, and the most I ever got by myself was either 6 or 7 with nearly perfect RNG. You essentially have to take multiple people, which then also makes the avoid aggro mechanic even harder if people are covering multiple routes.

It could maybe be doable solo with nearly godlike RNG if the turnin npc was moved down from the entrance to the bottom of the big room which would save like 30+ seconds of back and forth every single time. But yeah I ended up getting a friend to help and we got 9 ores in like 13 minutes.

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I'm not sure this actually counts for anything, but it's relatively inexpensive apart from getting all the JSE quests/drops done again. I didn't bother myself.


EDI isn't that awful if you are constantly going between airships, can chain them and do multiple per hour. I ended up doing like 80 in a day to wrap it up, I screenshot each NPC to make it easier and also for a reference of completions.

As for brown magic, if you really want it, I wrote an addon that essentially just uses food and trades greens on repeat. It manages the menus though so each cycle only takes a few seconds. It still takes hours and hours to get 10,000 though and you gotta be careful cause someone can snipe the 10k trade and you have to start over lol.


There's "tracking" for all three nations, as when you switch, you have to redo the questline races again and you get different rewards. Whether it matters or not, who knows. Hot and Cold wasn't so bad until you get to Bubu and then start failing like 80% of your daily attempts. Never bothered trying in the tier 3 zones since they didn't reward KIs but maybe I should for completion. I hear they're horrifyingly bad though.


This is exactly what I did for two years. Took every craft to 98 in turn, bought every item and KI, then deranked it onto the next one, until I finished on the craft I was going to try to shield with and did that last then moved onto the shield. Still sitting on the spirit stage though, it's awful.


See above comment for details on the mining one. It sucks it's literally the only one impossible to solo. Bad design.


I have a rabbit to 90 myself, might take it to 99 when bored but purposefully avoiding monstrosity while finishing everything else to prove it's basically impossible to rank 9 without it. Only like 4 things left to even do lol.


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.

Moogle Mastery was a few months of a grind for me, but I did every objective at the same time (popped 3 NMs per run, killed a bunch of mobs/halos for izzat, popped chest/coffer and picked aurums if they spawned). Aurums are probably the worst, especially if you don't have chest/coffer reduction capped from doing key farm runs over the years.

Needs 45 izzat to pop a single one without reductions which is pretty hard to get solo. I went on THF instead and built up 26 total izzat on the first 3 floors (few packs and two halos) and then did two chest > coffers at minimum cost and key picked the aurum if it popped. Doing that while doing NMs I ended up with about 20 or so by the end.

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)