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Mastery Rank & Mastery Points

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Overview

Mastery Rank (MR) is a system in Warframe that tracks the total amount of content a player has experienced. It serves as a progression milestone that unlocks weapons, increases resource caps, and provides other gameplay benefits as you climb. A player's current MR and mastery points can be found at any time by checking their profile page.

Mastery breakdown

Why Mastery Rank Matters

MR is not just a prestige metric. It provides tangible gameplay benefits as you climb:

  • Most weapons have an MR requirement to build them, going up to MR18
  • Daily standing caps for Syndicates and Focus scale with MR:
  • Daily Standing Cap = 16,000 + (Mastery Rank x 500)
  • Daily Focus Cap = 250,000 + (Mastery Rank x 5,000)
  • Maximum Void Trace capacity = 100 + (50 x Mastery Rank)
  • Higher starting mod capacity on new builds:
  • Below MR30: Starting Capacity = 15 + (Mastery Rank x 0.5)
  • At MR30 and above: Starting Capacity = Mastery Rank
  • Unique profile, fashion, and orbiter decorations rewarded at every new MR rank

At MR30, you also unlock:

  • Relay Blessings
  • Extra Riven and Loadout slots
  • Umbra Forma
  • Bypassing the Rank 30 Warframe requirement for certain missions

Legendary Ranks (Beyond MR30)

Additionally each Legendary Rank will grant one free Legendary Core, which can max out any mod at no resource cost.

What Grants Mastery Points?

Mastery points can be earned through a variety of tasks including:

  • Completing Star Chart missions and Junction nodes for the first time in both normal mode and Steel Path
  • Ranking up weapons (100 per rank - 3,000 total at rank 30)
  • Ranking up Warframes, companions, or vehicles (K-Drive, Necramech, Archwing) (200 per rank - 6,000 total at rank 30)
  • Investing in Intrinsics

Note: any item can only grant mastery once, regardless of how many times you own or level it. For example, if you level a Braton to rank 20 and sell it, then craft it again later, you will not gain mastery for those first 20 ranks. Only the remaining 10 ranks will count.

The takeaway for new players is this: experiment with as many weapons and Warframes as you can and max them out before selling.

Easy Sources of Mastery Points

If you are looking to climb MR efficiently, these are good starting points:

  • MK1 weapons - available from the Market for credits and come pre-built
  • Clan Research weapons - blueprints cost credits and crafting requires Fieldron, Mutagen Mass, or Detonite Injectors, which can be easily farmed through Invasion missions
  • Sentinels - each Sentinel comes with its own weapon, effectively giving you 9,000 mastery when you max out both

Sources to Avoid Early On

Some mastery sources are not worth pursuing until you are more established:

  • Kuva, Tenet, and Coda weapons (Adversary weapons) - tedious to farm and costly to obtain early on
  • Necramechs - ranking them up can be difficult due to limited affinity farming options
  • K-Drives - no combat utility, only worth pursuing early on if you enjoy the system

Tracking Your Mastery Progress

Outside of the in-game profile, two external tools are commonly used to track mastery and plan which items to level next:

  • AlecaFrame is a third-party companion app with detailed mastery tracking
  • This community-made spreadsheet is another helpful resource (Credit: XAZU, TsukiSage, Sevyx, and others)
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