Need to level up quickly!
Fri, 03/11/2011 - 21:55
Okay, I just got Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition last month, I downloaded all of the free downloadable content, but I need help with leveling up. Right now, I'm a level 14 Soldier and leveling up like only 1 level every 1-2 days, and it's becoming exhausting. I've gotten the car, so now I just run over enemies, it may be quick killing, but not quick leveling. I need ideas for how to get alot of experience quickly. I'm doing all of the challenges that I can, but it's time consuming, and not really helping me all that much. I'm doing fine on money, because of T-bone Junction, but again, that's not helping me level up. I know I'm complaining alot, but someone please help me. I'm way behind.
Mon, 06/27/2011 - 16:02
#2
Here's a quick way to get
Here's a quick way to get 25,000 exp.
Get a vehicle, arm it with a machine gun instead of a rocket launcher, find yourself a place where you won't attact any monsters, and keep both mouse buttons down for the next hour or so (tape? rubber band?) because there's an achievement where you get 5,000 exp when you shoot like 10, 000 bullets out of your vehicle, then there's another one where you get 20,000 exp when you shoot 100,000 bullets out of your vehicle.
So just tape the mouse buttons down, chill - watch some tv, go out for a drink, and come back in an hour or so and find an extra 25,000 exp! :D
Have fun :)
Wed, 06/29/2011 - 19:14
#3
Why? Really. It's far too
Why? Really. It's far too easy to overlevel in this game and then the various missions just become turkey-shoots with no challenge, whatsoever. I've found that the most challenging, and fun, way to play this game is to avoid rapid leveling, and I'm generally at or just below the level required for any particular mission after doing in Bonehead and friends. I don't mind, at all, being a little overleveled going up against him and Nine-Toes, but after that the game is just more fun if I actually feel challenged.
One problem with Borderlands is that if you do all the side-missions in the game you'll actually be overleveled for PT2. Throw in the DLCs and you'll find yourself five to ten levels above your missions. Yes, it makes them easy, and almost trivial, to complete, but where's the fun in that? In PT1 I prefer to avoid any side missions that I don't have to do to advance the main quest, except those which involve Claptrap rescues (you need the backpack space) and the missions to Lost Cave and the Tetanus Warrens to get your first shock and corrosive artifacts. Don't forget the mission in the Dahl Headlands to kill some Eridians and get an explosive artifact as a reward for your trouble, and you'll get your first indendiary artifact on the Moe and Marley mission in the Arid Hills.
However, if you really want to level up quickly, you're about ready for Zombie Island, which has a step-wise dynamic leveling system in place. The minimum level for this DLC is 10, and after that it upgrades in steps of five levels, depending upon the level of your character. Do ZI and you'll find yourself way ahead of the main game when you go back to it. You won't be able to do Knoxx until you complete PT1 of the main game, though. Well, mostly. You can get a pretty good chunk of experience by doing the first three missions. Just warp to T-Bone Junction and after watching the introductory movie you'll get a mission update which will tell you that the mission you're trying to do is "Impossible". In fact, it's remarkably easy. Just go across the street and talk to Scooter. Mission accomplished. He'll send you off to locate some parts for the Monster (a new kind of vehicle he's working on). Again, trivially easy, as long as you avoid the Omega Assassin team. You can't beat those girls at your level. Believe me. Then you can do Scooter's second mission which is to install the parts that you just collected. At that point you're finished with Knoxx, unless you want to want to farm the two white and two red chests in T-Bone Junction for money. You can't use any of the items you find in them, but they're worth a LOT of money when you sell them. This will make it possible to complete the challenges associated with becoming rich very quickly.
I kid you not, the easiest way to level up in the game is by completing each mission in a sequence. Of course, it is best to complete all the missions in the main story before conquering the missions in the DLCs (downloadable content). As you progress with each mission, you are often at the level requirements for the next mission, and so on. Another way is by grinding on bosses, killing enemies that are a few levels above you, and selling items. Yes, selling items give you experience, but you can't sell, buy and resell to get experience; game designers made sure there is no trickery. That's pretty much how I leveled my soldier, I did every mission that is up to my level requirements (or lower), killed every enemy in the field of the mission, went back to turn it in, sold all the useless junk I collected, and got leveled as I progressed. It somehow worked for my Lilith character as well. Oh, by the way, the items that give you more experience when you sell them are items that are at a higher level than you are.
Hope this helps.
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