Everything you need to know about Mastery in Doom The Dark Ages, including the best method to obtain it for all the weapons in the game.

Getting the Weapon Mastery for all of Doom Slayer’s armaments is easily the toughest challenge in Doom The Dark Ages. The Weapon Mastery in the latest Doom title works pretty much the same as Doom Eternal. Essentially, once you unlock all the upgrades for a weapon, you get access to itsMasteryMilestone.

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To unlock the Mastery for any given weapon, you need to complete the specified “Mastery Challenge,” which ranges from fairly simple (as in the case of the Combat and Super Shotguns) or quite challenging (as in the case of the Impaler or the Shredder). Furthermore, unlocking a Weapon Mastery usually means you will have to restrict yourself to using a specific armament for the entire duration of said milestone.

Although you can organically unlock Weapon Mastery by simply playing through the campaign, there is a way to easily “farm” it via specific difficulty settings andmission replay. Here’s everything you need to know about Weapon Mastery in Doom The Dark Ages.

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What Is Weapon Mastery In Doom The Dark Ages?

Weapon Mastery is essentially an additional milestone that you can unlock for every single weapon in Doom The Dark Ages. That said, Mastery doesn’t unlock any gameplay-related perks for a weapon. However, unlocking a weapon’s Mastery does grant you a special weapon skin —Conqueror. Furthermore, unlocking Weapon Mastery is required for thePlatinum Trophyas well.

Weapon Mastery is only available once you unlock all the upgrades for a weapon. Additionally, Mastery is only available for Doom Slayer’s firearms, and not for theMelee Weapons, i.e.,Shield Saw,Power Gauntlet,Flail, andDreadmace. Lastly, Weapon Mastery isn’t tied to any particulardifficulty preseteither.

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you may unlock Mastery for all weapons in any difficulty, even in theAspiring Slayerpreset. Weapon Mastery is one of the best ways that the game encourages replayability. The system basically requires you to replay missions and also engage with thedifficulty modifiers. It’s also possible to unlock Mastery for all weapons in a single playthrough, without having to replay missions.

Best Method To Farm Weapon Mastery

you may essentially use Doom The Dark Ages’ mission replay as well asdifficulty modifiersto easily farmMasteryfor weapons. The Mastery farming method comes courtesy ofYouTube content creatorSkull Busters. Basically, you need to progress through the main campaign until theResurrectionmain story mission. After that, you can replay the mission’s opening section to easily get Mastery for all weapons, albeit with some modifications.

Here’s a step-by-step guide for Master farming:

This method works for all Mastery Challenges in the game. You can also do this method on theUltra-Violencepreset, but keeping the difficulty on Aspiring Slayer makes it much easier.

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