Talk:Mastery Rank/@comment-90.185.179.158-20160128222654/@comment-90.185.179.158-20160131035537

My point being that there's a difference between MR 10s and MR 15s or higher. People think getting to high mastery is easy, because you can just "pay-to-win" and go do Draco for the rest of your days. That you can just skip ahead from rank 0 to rank 20 in a matter of weeks.

Getting beyond MR 12-14 requires time and dedication. Unless you're severely incompetent or mentally deficient, you will have learned all of this game's basic stuff, and tried most of what it has to offer, including weapons, frames and missions/quests. The higher MR you are, the more likely it is that you would know your stuff. Just because some high ranking noobs in the minority, clearly got carried throughout everything, does not make mastery rank redundant.

This community has a strange backwards mentality when it comes to the ranking system of this game, and I just don't understand why. If mastery rank "meant nothing", then why didn't they boycott this system a long time ago, and just replace it with an ordinary leveling system, like in WoW. Why does it clearly matter to many players when recruiting for sorties or other endgame stuff. Notice how I use punctation marks here, when I really should use question marks? It's because this isn't up for debate, and I'm just stating the obvious here.

I've spend close to 700 hours into this game. I started playing last year in October. I got to MR 10 in like a week or so. It wasn't until 4 days ago that I finally reached MR 20. I was a noob for a long time, but I've tried everything this game has to offer. Well, almost everything, still need to build some weapons. I've never asked for taxis to anything, and if I couldn't get a buddy to help me out clearing system nodes, I waited until I had better gear and better mods, then did it all by myself. I've done all of the quests almost entirely by myself, and I've tried all of the game modes, including Void, Derelict, sorties and raids. I've only seen people below MR 12 still asking for taxis and expecting to be carried. These are what I consider casuals. Like I've stated before; getting beyond a certain point in the MR scale, requires patience, dedication and time. All of my friends who are MR 15 and above, have done almost everything the same as me. They, we have experience. So don't come telling us that mastery rank "doesn't mean anything" when clearly it does. Anyone who thinks otherwise is just ignorant, and clearly maintaining an optical illusion.