Valafor Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Mastery Rank says nothing about how good you are. All it indicates is how much time you were willing to sink into mastery fodder. I know players who have been playing for far shorter a time than I who already have every thing available to them maxed. I know players with far more playtime who are lower MR than me. The only way to figure out who good someone is is to assign them some task that you find difficult and see if they can complete it. In my eyes, being a veteran is 65% about hours and only 35% about knowledge. I say this because if knowledge was most important, any veteran who decided to take a break shortly before a major reform would have their veteran status revoked. Not entirely true. Although MR should be taken with a grain of salt, it nevertheless is the easiest way to measure someone's skill. MR is like age; you can be old but still ignorant, but if you are young you are probably still ignorant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evanescent Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Is not afraid to step out of the meta and at the same time is not afraid of using meta guns should the situation arise. Can handle mostly any mission on a decent level. Plays for teh lulz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)LordPuck Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 The size of their Beard of wisdom... I'm disqualified right here.......... I trimmed by sideburns/muttonchops/Ewok cheeks :p What makes a veteran a veteran? Well they can copter and melee-fling like mad They roll with a tough crowd They're not afraid of the lime light They know how to take out the trash They know how to make the haters hate They know how to relax and keep their cool And they know that sometimes the classics are the best 1) Copters?? I thought this was Warframe, not Heli Assault. 2) Careful flinging that....... 3) My mom will beat yer arse fer that.. 4) Limes get all dried up if left in the sun too long.. not good fer Coronas 5) My trashman is here every Monday morning at 6;30am 6) I dont hate the haters hating the Hate. 7) Relaxeddddwathepuckisrelaxediaintgottimeferthatbecausemyacbroke 8) Yeppers, Im a classic example of what Veterans are NOT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altey Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 I'm disqualified right here.......... I trimmed by sideburns/muttonchops/Ewok cheeks :p 1) Copters?? I thought this was Warframe, not Heli Assault. 2) Careful flinging that....... 3) My mom will beat yer arse fer that.. 4) Limes get all dried up if left in the sun too long.. not good fer Coronas 5) My trashman is here every Monday morning at 6;30am 6) I dont hate the haters hating the Hate. 7) Relaxeddddwathepuckisrelaxediaintgottimeferthatbecausemyacbroke 8) Yeppers, Im a classic example of what Veterans are NOT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haif Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 (edited) Anyone else remember the old supersized Grineer tilesets, like the big room with the 4 elevators side-by-side, or the huge straight up-and-down mining shaft room with a single central elevator that only went up half the way from the bottom, or the big Corpus capture room where the capture target had windows overlooking the entire place? I miss those. DE, bring them back pls. Edited June 1, 2015 by Haif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gr3vi3R Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Veteran+Dictionary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K0bra Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 1000+ hours and high mastery rank but Veteran doesnt mean Good player.Veteran means he is here for a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)LordPuck Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 I'm disqualified right here.......... I trimmed by sideburns/muttonchops/Ewok cheeks :p 1) Copters?? I thought this was Warframe, not Heli Assault. 2) Careful flinging that....... 3) My mom will beat yer arse fer that.. 4) Limes get all dried up if left in the sun too long.. not good fer Coronas 5) My trashman is here every Monday morning at 6;30am 6) I dont hate the haters hating the Hate. 7) Relaxeddddwathepuckisrelaxediaintgottimeferthatbecausemyacbroke 8) Yeppers, Im a classic example of what Veterans are NOT You aint seen me be salty yet yo........ Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrazilianJoe Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 A prerequisite to be a Veteran is to be PC Master Race. 20+ years from now console peasants will still be n00b. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judgebanks Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 F*** if I know, I just learned how to ani-cancel bladestorm on Ash yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmuaddib Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Ok, granted that Veterans not necessarily equals the best players, but if after so many hours you are not even good, man, you are $&*&*#(%&... So I guess that a good arsenal, time, and yes, a decent level of skill are the best indicators. What good is doing something for long if you are no good at it?? Specially if it is a multiplayer game... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SugarShow Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Have used 10+ frames. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoIaris Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 What makes a veteran a veteran? Well they can copter and melee-fling like mad They roll with a tough crowd They're not afraid of the lime light They know how to take out the trash They know how to make the haters hate They know how to relax and keep their cool And they know that sometimes the classics are the best I hated that show, but excal's a great frame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtrmlnjuc Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Warframe vet = 60 minutes solo in t4 with a lato That must be the 10th level of hell, even for us veteran WF players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingTaro Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 "Veteran" doesn't exactly mean "skilled", off course, in reality that's pretty much always the case. It simply means one has been around for a very long time. Not just registered a long time ago, but has actually been active. If you have been around for just a few months and you're really good because you've put 1000+ hours into the game in that short time, you're not what I'd define as a veteran, but rather a very dedicated Tenno. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(PSN)Sybaris- Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Being a veteran has nothing to do with MR. I'm mr12 and i've only played for 3-4 months Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagPrime Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 I have 29 days and some odd hrs/min/sec. of in game time, the only Warframes I don't have are Nyx Prime, Volt Prime and Nova Prime. Excluding syndicate weapons, I've maxed out all melee weapons, all secondary weapons and half of the primaries. Kubrows and Sentinels are all maxed, including Wyrm Prime. I'm sitting on hundreds of thousands of resources and millions of credits, 10 thousand mods and participated in every event since Tethras Doom - am I a veteran? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SquirmyBurrito Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 (edited) Not entirely true. Although MR should be taken with a grain of salt, it nevertheless is the easiest way to measure someone's skill. MR is like age; you can be old but still ignorant, but if you are young you are probably still ignorant. No, not even close. I could, if I wanted, make a new account and refuse to go beyond MR 4. Hell, I could make a new account and never take a mastery rank test. I'd still be just as skilled as I am now. Mastery Rank says nothing about a player's skill. All it tells you is how many mastery rank sources a player has grinded. Your mastery rank also says absolutely nothing about your account age or playtime for the same reason that it says nothing about skill. Edited June 2, 2015 by SquirmyBurrito Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChloeSakuna Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 if you know what the H button does, and then be able to keep on target while switching over your shoulders constantly, you are a better player than me skill wise. Other than that, have to play with you to judge your skill. : / Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARavenousPanda Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 im throwing my 2c in. A vet needs hours played, its indicative of experience. They need to understand mechanics. How and why things work and interact. They need to know math, as stated before they need to know the ins and outs of the game. Generally, as a result of all this, they understand existing exploits and bugs. They generally have all content accessed and unlocked, or atleast ~90%. otherwise they are just another player with alot of knowledge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfhsanseiIII Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Until DE says something concrete or the player community can agree on a value for determining one's veteran status, it's all subjective and largely useless drivel. People get wound up too easily over the topic, and I don't see the point. My answer would be, if you can play the game without making everyone else's experience awful then you're a veteran. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithf Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 I have a slightly different take, regardless of skills or MR or whatever. A veteran is somebody who hasn't quit yet, when most others who joined the game around the same time are gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotaken Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Definition of a veteran: "a person who has had long experience in a particular field." Skill means nothing in this game anyway so the time spent around is more or less sole gauge. Time spent around which is required to be "veteran" changes over time and depends on your personal opinion though. Personally I'd say anyone who's been regularly playing for an year or over is a veteran. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trowicia Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 (edited) I'm so much a veteran I remember how much a pain in the ! Nervos was for my friends and I. We'd spend half of our time screaming at each other through VoIP to shoot Nervos off of us. Also, loyal Ember player since Q1 2013. :) (this is irrelevant but I thought I'd let everyone know how devoted I am to my flaming chicken <3) Edited June 2, 2015 by Trowicia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikodemos Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Really, attempting to define what exactly is a veteran is completely arbitrary, and basically a debate about: "how many grains of sand do you need to turn a pile into a heap?" And personally, I don't really care if someone is a veteran or not. If they're tolerable and can handle themselves in a mission decently, they'll be good in my books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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