Mastery research?..

[MrFrengLitch]

Can anybody explained to me how the research mastery works?

The tutorials are so hard to understand sometimes because of the bad translation. I need clarification please.

Thanks!

[Aroq & Roll !!]

you can reproduce the mastery you already know, using mastery you have
for example you unlocked "body training" but you can't put it on your char because you have 0 of them
in mastery research you can make body training by using another mastery you already have

[Black Hammer]

Ignore the word "research." You ain't researching squat on that screen.

It's a crafting system. Essentially, if you've unlocked a mastery elsewhere (through leveling up a class, gotten it from an enemy, etc), you can craft more copies of it. Some require specific masteries as an ingredient, while others just need X total points worth of other various masteries combined as ingredients. Usually it will specify a type needed as an ingredient: Basic, Attack, etc.

[Uriel]

Would be more aptly named "mastery transmogrification" or something like that :P

[TargetPractice]

There are a couple masteries you can unlock by crafting certain masteries in mastery researching. These will have a + sign that you can hover over to show the mastery you will unlock by crafting one of them.

[MrFrengLitch]

oh okay so its not really researching. its just duplicating. Cool thanks a lot for the clarification. Hopefully the devs work more on the writing because... Eh, it's kinda difficult to understand the game sometimes.

[Uriel]

Originally posted by MrFrenglitch:

oh okay so its not really researching. its just duplicating. Cool thanks a lot for the clarification. Hopefully the devs work more on the writing because... Eh, it's kinda difficult to understand the game sometimes.

They do. They even included a tool to help them with that. You can't use it directly for typos or errors in masteries and whatnot, but you can make suggestions for dialogues as you read them. just add "--translation volunteer" as a launch parameter and there you go :)

[korsobar]

Originally posted by MrFrenglitch:

oh okay so its not really researching. its just duplicating. Cool thanks a lot for the clarification. Hopefully the devs work more on the writing because... Eh, it's kinda difficult to understand the game sometimes.

It's not exactly duplication because the masteries you use to research get used up. Basically it is a rarity system so that advanced masteries that never or rarely drop from enemies can be crafted and are made of many lower tier masteries that you can easily acquire from drops.

[elidaman198]

adding to the OP question.. if saw correctly a character can have 2 mastery boards?? if so why??

[Delayed Hopkick]

Originally posted by elidaman198:

adding to the OP question.. if saw correctly a character can have 2 mastery boards?? if so why??

It's so that you can swap between different boards. Otherwise you'd have to unequip masteries over and over if you wanted to play something different.

[korsobar]

Originally posted by elidaman198:

adding to the OP question.. if saw correctly a character can have 2 mastery boards?? if so why??

You can make a different build for each of their classes or two different builds for one class centered around very different masteries / gear. For example, you can build a melee class around reactive counterattacks or built around aggressive one-hit-one-kill chains. Many of the characters have classes that focus either / or on physical or magical damage output for instance, which means different gear is better for each.

[elidaman198]

is it essential or can stick with one if want to?

[jofu]

Originally posted by elidaman198:

is it essential or can stick with one if want to?

Depends on the difficulty and personal preferences. Having more then one at the start can be difficult since you might not have enough masteries for multiple boards

[elidaman198]

Originally posted by jofu:

Originally posted by elidaman198:

is it essential or can stick with one if want to?

Depends on the difficulty and personal preferences. Having more then one at the start can be difficult since you might not have enough masteries for multiple boards

agreed..

[Zzyl_tsw]

Originally posted by Black Hammer:

Ignore the word "research." You ain't researching squat on that screen.

It's a crafting system. Essentially, if you've unlocked a mastery elsewhere (through leveling up a class, gotten it from an enemy, etc), you can craft more copies of it. Some require specific masteries as an ingredient, while others just need X total points worth of other various masteries combined as ingredients. Usually it will specify a type needed as an ingredient: Basic, Attack, etc.

Thanks for the explanation. I spent 10 minutes trying to understand what it was exactly, while not wanting to try asap as i am on online mode and cannot "load again" after trying what it did (i had guess some components were lost when 'researching')

[pascal.difolco]

Indeed the game don't explain at all this pretty specific mastery system, you have to learn by trying or read guides...