How To Get Mastery Points In Assassin's Creed Shadows
Mastery Points are the main resource needed to unlock powerful skills in your mastery trees. This is the most impactful progression system in the game, unlocking access to powerful passive and active abilities.
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So how can you get Mastery Points in Assassin's Creed Shadows? There a few different sources, but one stands above the others as the best option for someone looking to rack up points quickly.
Mastery Point Sources
Assassin's Creed Shadows gives you Mastery Points from different sources:
- Level Up - Every time you level up, you get a single Mastery Point.
- Samurai Daisho - Killing Samurai Daisho awards you with one Mastery Point per Samurai killed. These are the ones found in Castles and Palaces.
- Clearing Castles And Palaces - When hovering a location on your map, you'll get a list of the rewards you will receive after you fully clear it. Often, these include Mastery Points.
- Completing Objectives - Most objectives completed will award you with Mastery Points, and killing key enemies (like members of the Kabukimono) also awards points.
Image Credit: Ubisoft. Screenshot taken by Blast.Two reminders to add to this information:
- Mastery Points are shared between Naoe and Yasuke equally, regardless of who is completing the objectives that award them.
- It is crucial to farm Mastery Points while you progress through the game, but they will not be of much use if you don't farm your Knowledge Points too.
You get Mastery Points from enough different sources as to make them very easy to farm passively. Regardless of what you decide to do while playing Assassin's Creed Shadows, you're most likely getting quite a few Mastery Points along the way.
But what if you wanted to actively farm them?
Best Assassin's Creed Shadows Mastery Point Farm
The best way to farm Mastery Points in Assassin's Creed Shadows is clearing Castles and Palaces. These are not only the most efficient way to do so, awarding you with the most Mastery Points per time invested, they're also extremely fun to clear.
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As mentioned previously, you get Mastery Points for leveling up, killing Samurai Daisho, and fully clearing a Castle or Palace (essentially looting the Legendary Chest).
Castles and Palaces encapsulate all three of these in an extremely efficient way. Castles will usually house 2 to 3 Samurai Daisho, but they can hold up to 5 or 6. So clearing the Daisho alone is excellent source of Mastery Points.
Image Credit: Ubisoft. Screenshot taken by Blast.Additionally, there are a ton of enemies inside these Castles, and you will get a bit of XP out of all of them, and a healthy amount out of Elite enemies and Samurai Daisho.
Once you fully Clear a Castle or Palace, you will get a raw XP reward, likely to level you up at least once, on top of all the XP you got from the enemies already.
On top of this, the clearing rewards also often include Mastery Points, the cherry on top of the cake.
So, as an example, if you clear Osaka Castle at level 9, a very early game location in Assassin's Creed Shadows, you would have to take down 3 Samurai Daisho.
Image Credit: Ubisoft. Screenshot taken by Blast.After doing so, you would have access to the legendary chest, which would award you with a legendary armor, 3000XP, and 3 Mastery Points.
So by clearing a single early game Castle, you would've gotten:
- Three Mastery Points from the Samurai Daisho.
- Three Mastery Points from clearing the Castle.
- 3000XP alongside the XP gotten from clearing enemies, most likely a level up, so another Mastery Point.
With less than an hour invested, Osaka Castle would have given you 7 Mastery Points in the early game. Just clear every Castle you come across in Assassin's Creed Shadows, and you'll never need to worry about Mastery Points again.
