Mastery levels determine your available Weapon Module slots, Descendant Module slots, equipment slots, and storage slots inThe First Descendant. Here’s how you level your Mastery rank.
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You earn Mastery experience by simply playing the game, defeating enemies, and completing missions. You’ll earn mastery experience the first time you complete a mission, or when you level-up without socketed modules.
How To Rank Up Your Mastery Level
Once you’ve got the pop-up that the first Mastery rank is available, head back toAlbion- the main hub town.
Here, you can visit thePrime Hands- it looks like a hand on the mini-map or world map.

Here’s the location of the Prime Hands shown on the Albion mini-map.
Enter this area and walk up to the machine to the right. Here you’re able to rank up your Mastery level which can be done after a short cutscene (skippable after the first time.)

you’re able to quickly return to this area to rank up your mastery by fast traveling back to town whenever you level up.
It’s a good idea to quickly level your Mastery whenever you get a notification of a new level - you get extra capacity cost which will greatly increase the power of your weapons and skills.

How To Level Up Your Mastery Level Quickly
The easiest way to level up your Mastery is to complete the main mission quests. Every time you complete anewmission you’ll get bonus experience that goes towards your mastery level.
There areforty possiblemastery levels. Once you enter the endgame, you’ll becompleting boss fights(special operations, mostly) to grind for gear and the other Descendants you want to unlock. Mastery level should automatically continue to level in the background.