Hello - so I’ve been lobbying to get the exact numbers for how the mastery system will work for a while. And I am frustrated that we’re less than a week from launch and still don’t have the details of this information.
For context, I’m approaching 700 hours played. Character levels are as follows:
- Psyker - 173
- Veteran - 109
- Zealot - 109
- Ogryn - 37 (sorry big fella, I really haven’t played you much!)
For most of the characters, when it comes to weapons I typically have multiple “good” weapons with a base over 370 and the perks + blessings I want for a particular build. Mostly the blessings wanted are at Tier 4, but sometimes at Tier 3.
On a whim, I went through my blessing library for all weapon families and tabulated the "% complete" they are. This calculation was based on giving blessings a value in points equal to their tier level, since we’ve been told that higher tier blessings will count more (i.e. a Tier 4 blessings is worth 4 points, Tier 3 = 3 points, etc.). How much specifically we don’t know unfortunately. We also don’t know how many mastery points are needed in total to achieve maximum mastery or how many mastery points are needed to be able to unlock tier 4 blessings.
Note - The first number under a tier is how many blessings I have of that tier, and the second number is the total number of blessings available at that tier
What’s frustrating about knowing these details is that I’m sitting on many weapons with higher value unextracted blessings - since the weapons are good and usable. If I were to extract them now, then it might set me up to be able to get higher in mastery and be able to re-apply those blessings to other good base level items that I have sitting around, thereby jumpstarting my mastery level better. But without knowing the numbers I don’t know the extent to which this will actually help or not.
For instance, the chart shows me being at 61% complete for Force Sword blessings today. I have a number of force swords lying around with various unextracted blessings. How many of those do I extract now to get me at max mastery for force weapons? What % complete do I need to get to?
For Tactical Axes I’m over 80% complete with blessings - which is hilarious since I barely use the tactical axe (although it IS good). Is 80% enough to max mastery?
For weapons in the middle grounds, say a Heavy Sword or or the Purgatus staff (around 50% each), is this enough to at least unlock Tier 4 blessings under the new systems so I can reapply 1 or 2 tier 4 blessings back onto new weapons? The specific numbers matter here because if I extract blessings now, but don’t get enough mastery in the process to get back up to the desired blessings I already have in my current library then I’m literally going backwards in the conversion process by sacrificing a good weapon for little gain - and a weapon I’d be better off keeping and using to level up mastery through play after the update.
This is a lot of detail - and I’m probably overthinking the impact of all of this. But given that I’ve been waiting nearly two years for this moment, I’m excited but also anxious about the transition and want to know what to expect. I fully realize that despite my playtime (700 hours about) for many weapon families I won’t get much of a headstart on mastery because I don’t have a lot of the blessings today. But for weapons I’ve played a LOT, I’m worried I won’t even be able to take advantage of the crafting changes (i.e. removal of locks) because I still won’t get enough mastery to have equivalence to where I am with blessing availability today.
Anyone else feeling this way?
