Masteries

Masteries are a core system in Eternal Return.

Description[]

In Lumia Island, Masteries measure a character's proficiency with different tasks, and are directly tied to the leveling system.

Each time a character takes an action, they earn experience towards a certain mastery just as attacking enemies or crafting. Earning enough experience will rank the mastery up, which will in turn level the character up, making them stronger and granting them a skill point (which are used to unlock and upgrade character skills). In addition, each mastery grants a specific bonus to the character's statistics.

The current masteries are:

Weapon Mastery - Increased by crafting weapons and by dealing damage to or killing players and monsters.
Defense Mastery - Increased by crafting armor (except leg armor), by taking damage from traps, enemies, wild animals, and killing players and monsters.
Hunt Mastery - Increased by dealing damage to or taking damage from wild animals.
Craft Mastery - Increased by crafting Items such as Weapons, Armor, and Food.
Search Mastery - Increased by opening containers, air supplies, gathering and by using security consoles.
Move Mastery - Increased by walking 50m, traveling to different areas, and crafting leg armor.

Experience grained from crafting items benefits from a First Crafting Bonus, granting 100% extra experience the first time each item is made. Crafting multiple of the same item in a row on the other hand will apply a penalty to experience. Additionally, players significantly behind other players will gain an experience gain bonus:

2 Levels Mastery Difference: Additional 25% gain
3 Levels Mastery Difference: Additional 100% gain

However, any additional mastery gained is progressively scaled (e.g., if the player gains mastery and levels up when they're are 3 levels behind, they'll only gain additional mastery for the time before they level up).

It is worth mentioning that slaying wild animals with teammates nearby will grant them 70% of the experience. The player that lands the killing blow always gains 100% experience for the kill.

Players can keep track of their mastery progress through the VPad menu (V by default). More detailed information on each mastery and the bonuses they grants when ranked up can be found below.

List of masteries[]

Weapon mastery[]

By dealing (pre-mitigation) damage and crafting weapons, characters gain experience for their weapon mastery.

Weapon Mastery ranks increase 2 of the character's stats either by a fixed amount of a percentage. Different characters gain different bonuses, which are also different depending on the weapon type they have equipped.

A list of Weapon Mastery Bonuses and the amount granted with each rank can be found under the "Modifiers" section in each character's page: List of characters

Weapon Mastery experience gain is as follows:

To get Mastery Exp	Amount
Deal 100 damage to wild animal	5
Deal 100 damage to player	52
Kill Player	100
Kill Monster	Based on Wild Animal Level Chicken: 67 (+7 per Level) Bat: 120 (+10 per Level) Boar: 190 (+16 per Level) Wild Dog: 143 (+12 per Level) Wolf: 160 (+13 per Level) Bear: 266 (+15 per Level)
Craft Weapon	Uncommon: 100, Rare: 300, Epic: 500, Legendary: 600, Mythic: 800

Weapon Mastery Needed per Level:

Level 1 500
Level 2 600
Level 3: 700
Level 4: 900
Level 5: 1,650
Level 6: 1,750
Level 7: 1,800
Level 8: 1,850
Level 9: 2,000
Level 10: 2,100
Level 11: 2,300
Level 12: 2,550
Level 13: 2,800
Level 14: 3,100
Level 15: 3,500
Level 16: 4,000
Level 17: 4,600
Level 18: 5,500
Level 19: 6,500

Defense mastery[]

By crafting armor or taking damage, characters gain experience for their Defense Mastery. And like with Weapon mastery, slaying enemies also grants experience.