Exact experience numbers for each mastery level.

If you would like to know a little bit about the numbers behind each mastery level I think you will like this.

Overview

In this short guide I will show you the exact required experience for leveling a weapon from 0 to 20.

Mastery levels

How to read the table: The weapon starts at mastery level 0, for example to reach level 1 you need a total of 5850 experience.

Level	Experience required	Experience left till level 20
1	5850	277395
2	6240	271545
3	6630	265305
4	7044	258675
5	7458	251631
6	8702	244173
7	9945	235471
8	11000	225526
9	12114	214526
10	13350	202412
11	14586	189062
12	15414	174476
13	16243	159062
14	16899	142819
15	17555	125920
16	18723	108365
17	19890	89642
18	21547	69752
19	23205	48205
20	25000	25000
Total XP	277395

Experience gained per difficulty

Disclaimer: The mission modifiers do not affect the experience gained at the end of the level.
Example: A mission completed on heresy without any modifiers will give 24000 Experience. If that mission has Hi-Intensity Engagement Zone and scriptures you will still get 24000 experience.
My recommendation is to pick Low-Intensity Engagement Zones if you want to level a new weapon fast so it will be easier and you can get a feel for your weapon.
You also do not get a bonus if you choose quick play and the bonus experience for the curio also does not work. So pick a mission that you enjoy doing.

The only thing in my testing that reduced the experience gained was the new mission Rolling Steel, for this I do not have the experience values.

Difficulty	Experience Gained	Number of missions required	Average time completion of 25mins
Sedition	10800	26	10 Hours and 50 Minutes
Uprising	14400	20	8 Hours and 20 Minutes
Malice	19200	15	6 Hours and 15 Minutes
Heresy	24000	12	5 Hours
Damnation	32400	9	3 Hours and 45 Minutes

Sacrificing a weapon

Attention: Make sure you sacrifice the same weapon type, you get a massive experience bonus.
Example: If you sacrifice a combat axe while trying to level a heavy sword you will only get about 1600 experience while if you sacrifice a heavy sword you will get about 9000 experience that is almost 6 times more experience.
Also the rarity of the item does not matter, a 350 rating transcendent(yellow) item will give the same as a redeemed(green).

If money and platsteel is not a problem, you could buy and upgrade the items to redeemed and then sacrifice to Hadron.

The most expensive item I could find was about 11600 ordo dockets, the upgrade with platsteel was 103 and it gives 7590 experience points.

So with an average of 11600 ordo dockets, 110 platsteel and 8000 experience. you will need a total of:

Ordo dockets	Average platsteel	Total number of items to purchase
406000	3850	35

Thank you.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and please remember, it is just a game it is not a race, take your time to find the right settings for you and you will get there in no time.

[Mega|deatH]

With pleasure.

[Hendrix]

Thanks!

[Mega|deatH]

The number of kills or the time you use a weapon should not matter.

In my testing I got the same amount of experience for both weapons at the end of the mission.

[Hendrix]

Nice guide, you did a good job with the numbers
The only thing I'm still interested in is whether the number of enemies killed and, roughly speaking, the time spent with weapons in a particular mission depends on the amount of experience at the end?
I noticed that running for 5 minutes with a primary weapon towards the end seemed to gain almost more experience than spending the entire mission with a secondary one. It's possible that I'm imagining it, but while I was mastering psyker staffs, I rarely used a sword, axe, etc., but it felt much longer than any primary weapon.