Little confused about mastery.

[Jimboblordofeskimos]

So im a bit confused about how overall mastery in the mastery pool is gained.

Do I get more if more of my skills have higher individual mastery levels or is it only based on the one im doing at that time?

So as an example: Im grinding firemaking. My mastery level for yews is 80, but my mastery levels for normal logs and oak are very low (5-10). Is it worth me grinding up normal and oak for the first 50 or so easy levels to get faster gains in the mastery pool or do I just stay grinding on yews?

[Don]

Mastery pool gain is based on the mastery you are doing at the moment and at what level it is (the higher the better). The advantage of levelling only one means you get higher points per skill use to increase your mastery pool faster.

For Mastery pool levelling, it doesn't matter which mastery of that skill since the gain is "usually" the same for all mastery in that skill (like oak and yew), so go for the one with the highest mastery level you got. Now if you're also levelling the Skill level (which unlocks higher masteries), then the more advanced masteries (like Yew) also gives you a higher Skill gain.

[Jimboblordofeskimos]

Ok so just to be sure, having 50 mastery levels in oak and normal logs wont make my mastery pool gain higher when im burning yews than if I burned yews with 10 in oak and yew?
(sorry, the 2 different mastery pools with pretty interchangeable names make this.. confusing)

[Ida]

Every item has its own mastery level. You will gain more mastery exp as you level up the specific item. And 25% of the mastery exp you gained from an item would be added to the mastery pool. I hope it is clear for you.

[Don]

Originally posted by Jimboblordofeskimos:

Ok so just to be sure, having 50 mastery levels in oak and normal logs wont make my mastery pool gain higher when im burning yews than if I burned yews with 10 in oak and yew?
(sorry, the 2 different mastery pools with pretty interchangeable names make this.. confusing)

Ok, for this you are now talking about the "Bonfire" feature of burning secondary logs to increase XP gain. This feature will only gain extra XP for the Skill level, and not the mastery, nor the mastery pool. Using the mastery with the highest current level on it is the only way to gain the highest XP for the mastery pool. For example: if you're Normal is 10, Oak is 40, and Yew is 30, then using Oak will gain you more for the mastery pool than the Yew, regardless of what you use for the bonfire. Hope this helps...

[The Winter Bud]

The game has a local skill mastery(like oak, yew, etc..) then there is a global skill mastery (total skill for woodcutting). Both masteries count for total game completed percentage. All your local skills add up to give you a total Mastery Pool for that skill.

Leveling a local skill only brings that percentage to 99 and has no effect on other local skills. So having a 1 in oak logs will not effect your yew log's mastery. Accept how each local mastery adds to the total mastery pool checkpoint.

[Jimboblordofeskimos]

Originally posted by Don:

Originally posted by Jimboblordofeskimos:

Ok so just to be sure, having 50 mastery levels in oak and normal logs wont make my mastery pool gain higher when im burning yews than if I burned yews with 10 in oak and yew?
(sorry, the 2 different mastery pools with pretty interchangeable names make this.. confusing)

Ok, for this you are now talking about the "Bonfire" feature of burning secondary logs to increase XP gain. This feature will only gain extra XP for the Skill level, and not the mastery, nor the mastery pool. Using the mastery with the highest current level on it is the only way to gain the highest XP for the mastery pool. For example: if you're Normal is 10, Oak is 40, and Yew is 30, then using Oak will gain you more for the mastery pool than the Yew, regardless of what you use for the bonfire. Hope this helps...

Nah, I understand how the bonfire works, Im not asking about that at all.

[Jimboblordofeskimos]

Originally posted by The Winter Bud:

The game has a local skill mastery(like oak, yew, etc..) then there is a global skill mastery (total skill for woodcutting). Both masteries count for total game completed percentage. All your local skills add up to give you a total Mastery Pool for that skill.

Leveling a local skill only brings that percentage to 99 and has no effect on other local skills. So having a 1 in oak logs will not effect your yew log's mastery. Accept how each local mastery adds to the total mastery pool checkpoint.

My question was not if the mastery for each local skill would effect the masteries of other local skills, I was trying to work out if having higher masteries in multiple local skills would increase the gain I got for the mastery pool or if it is just 'higher mastery in local skill = higher mastery pool gain' with no outside influences.

[Don]

Originally posted by Jimboblordofeskimos:

Nah, I understand how the bonfire works, Im not asking about that at all.

Because your replies are confusing...

To give you the answer again: "Mastery pool gain is based on the mastery you are doing at the moment and at what level it is", and all other levels in other masteries of the same skill don't have a bearing on that.

[Makito-san]

i think you are talking about item mastery in a specific skill. all the other logs in firemaking count as an item. i spend some time on an excel sheet trying to figure out if it helps getting the other item masteries to level 50 as you say. what i found was NO in a nutshell. even if you level all the other items to lvl 50. the mastery XP you gain extra is not worth it for the highest lvl item ( it might go from 50 Mastery exp to 53) . you could have spend all that time levelling all the items to levelling the highest level. Hope this helps

[Jimboblordofeskimos]

Originally posted by Makito-san:

i think you are talking about item mastery in a specific skill. all the other logs in firemaking count as an item. i spend some time on an excel sheet trying to figure out if it helps getting the other item masteries to level 50 as you say. what i found was NO in a nutshell. even if you level all the other items to lvl 50. the mastery XP you gain extra is not worth it for the highest lvl item ( it might go from 50 Mastery exp to 53) . you could have spend all that time levelling all the items to levelling the highest level. Hope this helps

Yup, that pretty much covers it I think. It was the word 'items' in the mastery equation on the melvor wiki, this seems to clarify that for me, thank you.
For what its worth, I just set it to burn yews for another 4 days to hit 99 skill so I could get the cape.

Originally posted by Don:

Originally posted by Jimboblordofeskimos:

Nah, I understand how the bonfire works, Im not asking about that at all.

Because your replies are confusing...

To give you the answer again: "Mastery pool gain is based on the mastery you are doing at the moment and at what level it is", and all other levels in other masteries of the same skill don't have a bearing on that.

I apologise, my replies are confusing because the multiple pools and 'items' associated with a skill make it very difficult for me to word the question very clearly when I dont know what the correct/generally used terms for them all are.

[Don]

Originally posted by Jimboblordofeskimos:

I apologise, my replies are confusing because the multiple pools and 'items' associated with a skill make it very difficult for me to word the question very clearly when I dont know what the correct/generally used terms for them all are.

No worries, you don't need to apologize. It's no surprise the terms can be confusing when both asking and answering, and this happens a lot 😅😅. Hope you did get your answer out of all of these...