My own concern on this is probably something that comes a way down the line, but.... I'm currently training all the weapons, so all 14 I can, and I can hunt sky giants with them all.

Something I have noticed, which I'm sure you can imagine, is that my mastery skills are really flying, and I think by the time I get all my 14 weapons to 750 ranks, my mastery skills will be sitting at around 1000 ranks.

I guess my question is, whats my skill with a weapon then? If I have 750 ranks with my primary weapon, but 1000 in mastery, am I better than my 750 ranks? or does it not work that way?

Do the mastery skills count in PvP? So if I have 500 in my weapon, and 1000 in mastery, could I comfortably hit someone with 750 defences?

I've never known much about the mastery skills to be honest, same as defending, they just toddle along as I'm training my other skills, and I have no idea what impact they have in the system, or how much difference they make.

>>I believe rats cap at 25 ranks.

Melee Mastery: 191
Small Blunt: 26

Still learning in rats, I'll keep going to find the cap, but it really doesnt appear the mastery buff affects learning.

Another funny aspect is I stance 0 attack to train to keep them alive longer and I still hit most of the time, so it is either the mastery skill kicking in or rats are just made to be hit all the time which could be possible.

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Still going at 30 ranks. I think the test is basically proven but I'll keep going to cap just to see where it falls.

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Haha rats in 2.0 was probably 25. In 3.0 I wouldn't be suprised if it was like 50... kinda like I coulda swore black apes were around 700 in 2.0 but in 3.0 I was there till a out 840 evasion. Funny but not right.