What levels Mastery? Fastest way?

[quarty]

I was just curious as to what in specific levels mastery. Experience gained from killed enemies? hitting enemies at a high combo count? Enemy kills? That being said, what would be a fast way to grind out the masteries?

[TemmieNeko]

Originally posted by Peg:

I was just curious as to what in specific levels mastery. Experience gained from killed enemies? hitting enemies at a high combo count? Enemy kills? That being said, what would be a fast way to grind out the masteries?

you mean ying and yang, that stuff?

[quarty]

Originally posted by TemmieNeko:

Originally posted by Peg:

I was just curious as to what in specific levels mastery. Experience gained from killed enemies? hitting enemies at a high combo count? Enemy kills? That being said, what would be a fast way to grind out the masteries?

you mean ying and yang, that stuff?

Yes, those, please.

[Jackkel Dragon]

As far as I can tell, the way balance masteries work in SV/EV is related to XP earned while in the related mode (Uniformed/Transformed/Frantic). It seems you generally need as much XP as you need to get to level 50 to get all five stages of a mastery. So you essentially need to get enough experience to level up from 1->50 at least three times for each character. It's not too bad if you pick one in advance and stick to it, but trying to get all on a single character is rough.

If you're confident enough in your level/ability, the survival mode for multiplayer is a decent way to build masteries, since you can solo it and it uses single-player character data. (I'd recommend at least getting to level 12 before trying this, though.) Yin and Yang aren't too hard to grind up, but Flash can get difficult since you don't have Ninja Arts. And any characters that have poor combo abilities will take longer to level up, normally and for masteries (since XP seems to take combo into account).

I'm afraid I'm can't help much more. Getting more than one mastery on a single character is a project of devotion to that character, due to the heavy grinding. I don't remember if SV or EV had the trophies for finishing all three, but those trophies allow for different characters to be used and it's best to do it that way if you only want the trophies.

Maybe someone else has a better idea how the system works, though. Mastery doesn't seem to be 1:1 when compared to XP, so maybe there's a way to game the system.

[Unyubaby]

Mastery is trained by doing combos mostly, hence why characters with high combo hitting ninpo arts will gain Mastery faster and why Flash takes forever to train. Survival Mode works wonders for training Level, Yin, and Yang. You can try training Flash there too, but it's more difficult to get far without ninpo arts. For Flash, doing either Daidoji and Rin's Dual Heart mission or the Day 8 mission with Asuka works well.