The most avoided game mode: Mastery

[DroneFrost]

I just love how so many people avoid Mastery. Most of them are too low or just did it. ... or you can be just like me. No one to play with (well, i do have some friends to play with but none of them like it).

I have some questions:

1) What level do you have to be, to beat mastery? (Mostly Chaos 1)
2) Did they really made all the rewards so bad ?
3)Anyone actually want to play Mastery?

This one is kinda off topic:

4) I'm level 72 and i have weapons with 1,500 dmg.
Is this too low?

I did play a little in c2-c6 for exp

[Frogkiller]

I have some questions:

1) What level do you have to be, to beat mastery? (Mostly Chaos 1)
2) Did they really made all the rewards so bad ?
3)Anyone actually want to play Mastery?

Level doesn't really matter with Mastery. It does for getting shards without purchasing with medals or money.

-It really depends on what shards are in your relics and your understanding of how to use them correctly.

Example: Some that require no blockades, you might use a DPS tower in a Totem with Vamp Embrace/Destruction and Deadly Strike. Good example here would be Juicebags C1 mastery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqbS0LJuqpI

-What do you consider "bad rewards" doesn't really mean a lot. There are some that are quite useful. Others, not so much.

-Back to point 1. If you don't have any shards that are viable to the mastery you are trying to run, there aren't too many who will take you. Unless they are stricty in a carrying mood. Some of the mastery requirements are pretty strict, so they will stick to people they run with a lot.

Of course this whole thing is my opinion. But IMO, SHARDS MATTER.

Hope this help.

-regards

4) I'm level 72 and i have weapons with 1,500 dmg.
Is this too low?

I did play a little in c2-c6 for exp

Too low for what? You have to actively upgrade your gear to get beter gear. If you run with that in a C6, you will get comparible drops, for the most part.

[Kanguroo]

Hi!

Acs level is capped by 0 for c1-c4.

things that help you to beat this GREAT gamemode are gear and the shards you have.

Gear will be automatically capped to mastery tier level - so you just need to be geared better than your current mastery tier.

The Shards! If you dont have the proper shards - mastery will be VERY painful.
Achieving shards is a long-long gameplay grinding all trials. After getting most shards you should be ~200 asc and top c7 geared.

Answering your questions:
1-Level doesnt matter.
2-the rewards are all different - some are bad, some are wonderful.
3-I finished mastery, i won't play them anymore. Same with modern incursions. You do them once and never return.
4-It is enough for c1 mastery, but lack of shards will be your problem.

[DroneFrost]

Thank you bouth very much. This will help me. I just love how you need to learn outside the game to play this.

[Fallanor]

i found most mastery maps easier solo. even some 30 sec maps, remember that mobs get a 25% buff per player. some heroes make it quite a cakewalk too..did most maps with dryad, and having multiple mystics (obelisks) helps a lot with no blockade maps. when needing 10 different towers it helps a lot having all of them sharded correctly, multiple walls help alot here too.
it all comes down to trial and error, dont get put down by losing a few times, learn and adapt ;)
also, i think the new "buff" or what it will be called from "prestige" will be active in mastery, so it will be really easy soon (pure speculation here)

[diviator]

Deadly Strikes, Defence Rate, Destruction, Fortificaton, Critical Strike and any tower specificshard are the ones you need. Power Transfer and Crit Damage are not good.

[Aralyn]

Originally posted by diviator:

Deadly Strikes, Defence Rate, Destruction, Fortificaton, Critical Strike and any tower specificshard are the ones you need. Power Transfer and Crit Damage are not good.

Erm, power transfer is an almost mandatory shard.. what are you on about?

[diviator]

Chaos Masteries ... unless the topic has changed and I didn't realise it.
Power Transfer is simply not good enough in CM1 to CM4 (Probably CM5 & CM6, too). You would always need Critical Strike in order to increase the chances to acctually deal critical damage.

Outisde of Masteries Power Transfer is probably the best shard (Deadly Strikes is my personal favourite). But here you are also not scaled back/weakened.

[andychow1234]

Ive been farming defensive critical strike (increase % chance for towers). Ive only got 1 drop while im done most of m6 and a few of m7. Looks like ill finish m7 before getting 10 of the def crit chance (some maps require 10 or more towers).

Having a team helps. Also theres no justification to replay a mastery map when you passed it unless its to help others.

[DroneFrost]

Some of the shards for mastery chaos 1 are found in chaos 6. Like Sharpened Spikes and Power Pylon. Even tho, i have Power Pylon.

So dose your level matter in Mastery.

[Cranky]

I avoid Mastery because I'm unable to beat certain timed challenges because I'm forced onto US servers as an Oceanic player.

In fact, I stopped playing altogether.

[Energyx]

Once you can clear C7, there is no reason to play in the current state of the game. Especially now that they will be wiping us again! Mastery mode was a nice try but a hard fail.

So how many more changes/fixes until we get some real type of end game? onslaught 5.0? Mastery mode season 6?

[diviator]

They never said anything about a wipe.

How many more changes and attempts till we have something in the direction of an end game?
I would say a few more but the upcoming expansion will try it (or at least that is what the preview tries to tell us) and give us the first version of it.

[DroneFrost]

I would like the game not to have an end game. I would like it to be played for fun, not just to end it.

[Freeborn]

Originally posted by ☣Violet☠Death☣:

I would like the game not to have an end game. I would like it to be played for fun, not just to end it.

well the mastery is not realy the "end game"

funny thing is that the stat camp in mastery c7 is mor or less the max cap from c6