Mastery

Creature mastery is a challenge to battle a monster of your choice many times. This challenge is unnecessary for completing the rest of the game, and is mainly undertaken by dust warriors late in the game who are low on content.

Dust warriors pick a monster that they like for whatever reason and then challenge themselves to reach a certain mastery level. Sometimes, dust warriors can add an additional challenge of completing the mastery challenge in a set amount of time. For example: reaching level 6 mastery of an event monster before the event ends.

Some monsters disappear after their quest is turned in. If a Dust Warrior wants to achieve a mastery in that monster, it requires a little more forethought and planning to keep that monster in their queue.

If you want to get an idea of what monsters are available in what size ranges before you start a mastery, you can check out these lists of Monsters by Size: (Small, Medium, Large, and Variable) to get a feel for them. Most Dust Warriors aim for masteries in smaller creatures, below 300 words, though there are several pursuing a monster in the middle of the pack (400-800), and a few going all out with a monster over 1,000 words!

## Mastery Levels

Note that the mastery page will show you the monster's **current level** as well as how close you are to the **next level**.

The rewards that the dust warrior receives will be specific to the monster they battled. The images used here are just examples.

## How to View Mastery Stats

You can see your master levels by going to "Journal" and then "Compendium" at the top. From the list of options that appear, you can click 'My Masteries'. for a list of all the monsters you've fought in the order of how many times you've defeated them.

If you would like one particular monster to appear at the top of the list for easy tracking, you can click he star beside its name.

## How to Add a Mastery Badge to a Forum Avatar

Once you reach level 6 mastery, you can add a badge under your avatar on the forums. This will show off your accomplishment.

To set a mastery badge in place, go to "Forum" and then "My Badges" at the top. At the bottom of the page will be the Battle Mastery Badges.

## Rewards

The rewards are being collected on the wiki here: Mastery Rewards.

You can also check out this forum thread: https://app.4thewords.com/community/forum/category/creature-battles-love/thread/show-off-your-new-mastery-rewards

The developers create the rewards for mastery as they are needed. This means if you are the first to earn a specific reward, it may take some time to receive it. In the meantime, you will have placeholder items:

## Mastery Challenges

There are several forum challenges regarding masteries.

* Forest Badge Challenge: Dust Warriors attempt to fight each monster they encounter at least 10 times, getting a forest mastery badge for every monster. This challenge takes forethought when encountering Disappearing Monsters as they need to be retained in your queue.
* 2021 Event Mastery Challenge: Dust Warriors attempt to gain a mastery (usually a lvl 6 Gold Badge or lvl 5 Ghost Badge) in a monster in released for a specific event. More ambitious Dust Warriors may attempt to master a monster for every event in the year.
	+ Pride Mastery Challenge: focused on gaining mastery of creatures during the 2021 pride event
	+ 2022 Event Mastery Challenge: focused on gaining mastery of creatures from various 2022 events
	+ Duck Mastery Challenge: focused on gaining mastery of creatures from the Duck family (Duck week/Shrine)
	+ Station Raising Mastery Challenge: focused on gaining mastery of creatures during the 2022 Station Raising event
	+ Caretaker's Garden Mastery Challenge: focused on gaining mastery of creatures during the 2021 Caretaker's Garden
	+ River Festival Mastery Challenge: focused on gaining mastery of creatures during the 2021 River Festival
* Dust Witch Mastery Challenge: Dust Warriors attempt to attain a mastery of any level with the Dust Witch. Since this is a Disappearing Monster, and on the larger size at 1,200 words, this challenge takes a good bit of planning and a lot of writing to achieve.
* Kuldoro Mastery Challenge: Focused on gaining mastery of the Kuldoro, a project which was eventually turned into an official quest.
* Tiatu Sanctuary Challenge: While not a mastery challenge per se, this thread aims to help clean (battle) 10,000 Tiatus, with mastery levels as a byproduct.
* Cordu Mastery Challenge: Focused on gaining mastery of the Cordu, which first appeared in the Dragon Clan Event and later the permanent Dragon Lair area
* Sky Mastery Challenge: Focused on gaining mastery of creatures from the Sky region, including Cloud, Dawn, and Tempest areas.
* Co-Op Mastery Challenge: A thread for those who are interested in mastering one of the new Co-Op Creatures
* General Mastery Check-In: A place for Dust Warriors to share their progress and achievements in gaining any and all masteries
* What Mastery Badge are you working towards?: A place for Dust Warriors to share their progress and achievements in gaining any and all masteries
* High WC Mastery (Accountability Thread): A place for Dust Warriors to share their progress and achievements specifically in gaining a mastery of a high word count (750+) creature