fishing skill xp vs fishing mastery xp

[Alxndr]

This goes for all similar skills, what is the difference between the two? The wiki article is hella confusing.

[VectorX]

Skill XP levels your skill level, while mastery XP levels your mastery level for individual things. You can see that, for fishing for example, every individual fish has a separate level. That's the mastery for that specific fish. The more you catch the same fish, the more you level the mastery for that fish.

Leveling the general skill mostly increases what you can craft or gather while leveling masteries has separate benefits for individual items, like better chances at catching the fish or getting treasure instead of junk or reducing materials required for crafting as well as increasing material preservation (chance material doesn't get used per craft) or doubling items.

[sonen4]

To make it more confusing, there is actually 3 categories: skill XP, mastery XP, and mastery pool XP.

Skill XP -> The overall XP for the skill, for instance fishing. Higher levels opens new options in the skill (for instance, in fishing, level 5 allows fishing sardine, and level 8 allows fishing blowfish)

Mastery XP -> Mastery over the single skill within the overall skill (for instance, shrimp mastery vs. sardine mastery within fishing). Mastery XP can be seen next to a skill when it's selected. Mastery bonuses can be seen by clicking on the trophy icon in the bottom right (at least on PC, not sure about mobile). For fishing, each level of mastery increases chance of finding 2 fish by 0.4% for that specific fish, at level 50 mastery you increase chance of finding special items with that fish, and at level 65 you no longer catch junk for that fish.

Mastery Pool XP -> Accumulated for each skill, and can be seen at the top underneath the skill level progress bar. Mastery Pool XP can be spent to increase mastery level of skills within that skill, or it can be accumulated to get extra bonuses. These can be seen in the 'View Checkpoints' and 'Spend Mastery Pool XP' on the top right. Generally it's good to try and save the mastery pool XP to unlock the checkpoints, as they tend to be powerful bonuses for the skill.

[Alxndr]

Quick follow up question. I'm grinding Ameria and it's giving me like 24xp but I am level 68 in astrology and have other ones unlocked that give like 54xp.

Is it better to switch to the higher xp one as soon as it unlocks? What's the benefit of grinding Ameria at 24xp each compared to the other one that gives 54xp?

[VectorX]

Originally posted by Alxndr:

Quick follow up question. I'm grinding Ameria and it's giving me like 24xp but I am level 68 in astrology and have other ones unlocked that give like 54xp.

Is it better to switch to the higher xp one as soon as it unlocks? What's the benefit of grinding Ameria at 24xp each compared to the other one that gives 54xp?

If you're just leveling the skill then you should switch to the one that gives more XP. The benefits of staying on the same constellation are that you level up that constellations mastery which then unlocks its perks.
So if you want a specific constellations perks - stay on that constellation but you'll level up the skill itself slower OR if you want to level the skill - switch to a higher level constellation as soon as you unlock one.

[Alxndr]

Originally posted by VectorX:

Originally posted by Alxndr:

Quick follow up question. I'm grinding Ameria and it's giving me like 24xp but I am level 68 in astrology and have other ones unlocked that give like 54xp.

Is it better to switch to the higher xp one as soon as it unlocks? What's the benefit of grinding Ameria at 24xp each compared to the other one that gives 54xp?

If you're just leveling the skill then you should switch to the one that gives more XP. The benefits of staying on the same constellation are that you level up that constellations mastery which then unlocks its perks.
So if you want a specific constellations perks - stay on that constellation but you'll level up the skill itself slower OR if you want to level the skill - switch to a higher level constellation as soon as you unlock one.

Thanks. I just wanted to unlock the perks for ameria because I'm about to go into fishing now.