Destiny
51 Achievements
1,250
310-400h
Hunter Mastery
Fully upgrade a Hunter Subclass.
30
How to unlock the Hunter Mastery achievement in Destiny - Definitive Guide
All you gotta do is get experience, however there are many ways to do this. In particular I did the whole game solo on hard for every mission. Although tricky, I was able to get bonus amounts of exp, whilst also honing my skills.
You have access to two 'Subclasses' the second of which you'll unlock at lvl 15 (though after doing this for your first character, the other two will be obtainable from the start!). Wait to do this one as you'll already have a lot of progress done for the basic subclass.
ALWAYS have bounties active. I do all story/co-op player ones available for the boost of exp, and it's very high.
Daily challenges are helpful as are weekly ones. You may need a friend or two to help you out.
Strikes are good for exp, but you might wanna get a friend or two to help speed things along. Me and a friend of mine did about 10+ strike playlists on the lvl 24 setting. We also got a lot of currency/nice loot.
You can also trade in stacks of 50x materials (i.e. Spinmetal, Helium, Spirit Blossom or Relic Shards) for a boost of exp, but it will take you a while to amass the needed amount.
The cryptarch at the tower will be your port of call a lot, and as you bring him engrams he'll start levelling your cryptarch lvl. Doing this is easy (I'm as of writing half way through lvl 5) and nets you a big amount of exp.
Hope this helps guys!
Also; for those having trouble unlocking glitchy achievement do this:
Press the Menu button RB over to settings, highlight Log Out and choose Switch Profile (not Change Character). This will take you back to the game start screen, and once you press A, it will ask you to choose your Xbox Live profile.
Choose your profile and then choose your character from the character select screen. Any achievements that should have been unlocked will then unlock.
*Cheers to FLEEBS & ludo10109 for the info
See "Warlock Mastery" for more info.
Subclasses unlock at rank 1 (Gunslinger), rank 15 (Bladedancer), and after “The Nightstalker’s Trail” (rank 25 and completion of “The Coming War”). The XP grind will take a long time and you will be above rank 20 by the time you unlock every subclass perk.
The best way to do this is to stick with the initial subclass that you have. Don’t switch to Bladedancer when you unlock and continue doing Missions, Strikes, Raids, Patrols, and Bounties on Gunslinger until you full upgrade it.
The glitch that blocked Nightstalker from counting towards this trophy has been fixed (thanks to Metdevil).
However, there is a shortcut to this trophy, but it can be costly. If you buy the Hunter level 25 rank up shortcut from the PSN Store for $30, included in that is an item that will max out your subclass. This will unlock the trophy (thanks to tuffmuff).