You can level up your Mastery Rank in The First Descendant (TFD) by increasing your Descendant Levels and Weapon Proficiency. Read on to learn what Mastery Rank is, how you can rank up your Mastery Rank, and where to find the Prime Hands!

How to Rank Up Mastery

How to Increase Your Mastery Rank
Earn Mastery EXP to Raise Your Rank Use the Prime Hands in Albion

Earn Mastery EXP to Raise Your Rank

First, you must earn Mastery EXP by completing missions, raising your Weapon Proficiency, or leveling up your Descendants. You can see your current Mastery EXP on the upper left side of the screen inside the Inventory Menu.

Use the Prime Hands in Albion

In-Game Location	Map Location

After collecting enough Mastery EXP, you can increase your Mastery Rank at the Prime Hands located in Albion. You can find the Prime Hands inside a room on the right side of Albion, near the city entrance.

How to Rank Up Mastery Fast

How to Increase Your Mastery Rank
Level Up Descendants and Weapon Proficiency Do the Albion Resource Defense Missions Complete Pending Missions

Level Up Descendants and Weapon Proficiency

The fastest way to level up your Mastery Rank is to level up descendants and increase any Weapon Proficiency. Although completing missions will provide progress, it's best to level up Descendants and increase Weapon Proficiency in Albion Resource Defense Missions.

Use Weapons for Mob-Clearing

General Round Weapons, Launchers and some Ultimate Weapons that can deal AoE damage are great weapons to use when farming for Weapon Proficiency. This is because they can clear mobs fast, allowing them to gain more proficiency than other weapons.

Do the Albion Resource Defense Missions

Albion Resource Defense missions are Special Operation missions that become available in Kingston, Echo Swamp, and Fortress after completing all missions in their respective regions. The objective is to defend an object against up to 21 waves of enemies, allowing you to kill many enemies with almost no limit.

The defense mission in Kingston is best for early-game farming, while the one in Echo Swamp is best for mid-game and end-game farming. The defense mission in the Fortress is best when running as a team, as level 90+ enemies may be overwhelming for low-level Descendants and Weapons.

Albion Resource Defense missions have a shield icon on the map, and will only be available once you complete all missions in the region.

Complete Pending Missions

Completing missions for the first time also grants you mastery, though not as much as the methods above. Still, if you have many pending missions, you can go ahead and do them to rank up mastery.

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What is the Max Mastery Rank?

The Max Mastery Rank is 30

The highest Mastery Rank you can achieve in The First Descendant is Mastery Rank 30.

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What is Mastery Rank?

Increases Your Inventory Limit and Unlocks New Features

Raising your Mastery Rank increases the total capacity and limit of all your inventory slots, and it can also unlock new features in Albion that you can use to improve your Modules, Weapons, and Descendant.

Having more inventory slots is crucial in the early game to ensure you can pick up better weapons as you progress through missions. Make sure to increase your rank whenever Mastery Rank Up Available appears and return to the Prime Hands as soon as possible.

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