Murderer’s Creed Odyssey isn’t the primary sport within the sequence to have an RPG leveling system — Origins had an analogous setup final 12 months — nevertheless it’s extremely vital in Odyssey. How vital? Should you don’t actively hunt down methods to earn expertise factors, you’ll fall approach behind and have an especially arduous, if not unattainable, time finishing the story. So, within the spirit of serving to you thru the grind, we’ve put collectively a leveling information that ought to hopefully eradicate a few of your arduous occasions in Historical Greece.

Test the really useful stage or stage vary

Should you open your map, you’ll discover that every land mass has a stage suggestion. The bottom stage areas, the place you begin, are below ten, whereas just a few areas go as much as the mid-40s and even 50. Remember the fact that though the loot is healthier in more durable areas, you’re unlikely to outlive for very lengthy should you go exploring whereas severely under-leveled. This consists of crusing your ship close to high-level areas, as enemy ships will mirror the extent of enemies ashore.

Know that story missions aren’t sufficient

In our Assassin’s Creed Odyssey review we emphasised that you simply gained’t be capable to maintain development from simply finishing story missions, particularly as you get deeper into the sport. On a number of events, there are four-plus stage jumps between story missions. Which means that you gained’t be capable to breeze via Odyssey. We advocate maintaining with the required stage of the missions if not one or two greater. Remember the fact that some mainline missions see a rise in stage should you move the unique quantity. That’s OK, although, since this doesn’t have an effect on future mission really useful ranges.

Full aspect quests

Should you’re searching for a approach to stage up whereas nonetheless experiencing some pretty attention-grabbing content material, devoted aspect quests are a great possibility. Aspect quests are marked on the map with exclamation factors. All of them have a narrative ingredient to them and a few of them even result in unlocking new mainline missions (bizarre, proper?) or further aspect quests. Many of those aspect quests unlock as you full story missions in the identical space. Most significantly, aspect quests dole out as a lot and typically extra expertise than story missions. Primarily, finishing aspect quests is simply as vital as story quests in the course of the grind.

Raid all areas

Aspect quests are finite, although. There’s usually a handful of secondary quests for every stage, however after some time, they gained’t even be sufficient to maintain you at an acceptable stage. That’s the place all of the in-between stuff is available in. All all through Historical Greece are enemy strongholds. A few of these are giant Spartan, Athenian, or bandit bases, whereas others are single buildings and even environmental landmarks. You don’t should stroll far to search out alternatives to earn chunks of expertise factors. Fortresses are marked on the map with a crimson image, whereas Leaders (highly effective enemy homes) are marked with a blue image.

Usually occasions you’ll locate enemy areas not beforehand marked in your map. You’ll know this when Alexios or Kassandra remarks that they need to be quiet there. You possibly can press L3 (down on the left thumbstick) to point out location aims. Generally aims embody killing an enemy captain and/or polemarch, together with looting treasure chests and/or selecting up key gadgets and burning warfare provides. Different occasions it’s simply looting chests. It is dependent upon the placement. Smaller areas with much less or no enemies result in fewer expertise factors, however they’re nonetheless price clearing out. It’s straightforward to snag 1,000 or extra expertise factors for only a couple minutes work.

Use Ikaros to search out stuff to do

We talked about this in our Assassin’s Creed Odyssey beginner’s guide nevertheless it’s additionally price mentioning right here: Don’t overlook that should you’re having hassle discovering new areas, switching to Ikaros (your eagle) is an effective approach to zero in on buildings, enemies, treasure, and different factors of curiosity. Ship Ikaros to the sky by urgent up on the d-pad. You’ll wish to activate stationary mode with L2/LT. From there you possibly can swivel the digital camera and Ikaros will catch something of curiosity that you simply hover over.

Provoke conquest battles

One of many largest sources of expertise factors comes from conquest battles, the brand new full-scale battlefield fights that see you slashing via a big group of Athenian or Spartan troopers alongside CPU allies. Every space has a conquest meter, proven on the map and backside of the display, that may lower as you kill enemy Leaders, steal/burn enemy provides, and kill enemy troopers. Just a few mainline missions are conquest battles, however most of them are non-obligatory, triggered by your personal consideration to element when clearing out enemy bases and finishing aspect missions. This typically results in decreasing an enemy’s grip on a area and as soon as the meter strikes all the way down to susceptible, two conquest battles might be out there (they’re marked in your map).

Considered one of these icons represents your protection, whereas the opposite signifies your offense. Whereas a bit tougher, you must at all times select to assault, because it nets you extra expertise factors. Within the early going, you possibly can earn about twice the expertise factors you’d for a traditional mission. As you get later within the sport, conquest battle rewards are huge, within the mid-30,000s. You must at all times be conscious of decreasing the conquest meter. If it’s midway depleted however your subsequent story mission is in one other space, it’s good to stay round and chip away on the meter earlier than transferring on.

Stage your gear

Your gear ranges matter, too. Should you’re stage 25 however your entire gear is stage 20, you aren’t going to be as ready to tackle stage 25 enemies. Though your assault and well being enhance with every stage development, it’s at all times finest to maintain your gear at or actually near your total stage. One surefire approach to do that is to improve or buy gear on the blacksmith (should you haven’t picked up any helpful gear not too long ago).

You may as well put together for the long run on the blacksmith. Curiously, the blacksmith typically sells gear at one stage greater than your present stage. When you can not equip gear that eclipses your present stage, that doesn’t imply you shouldn’t purchase it. When you stage up, you’ll have new gear to equip straight away. It’s a forward-thinking technique that pays off, and one you possibly can proceed to make use of all through the journey.

Test the message board

When all else fails and you can’t discover something to do, head over to the message board (marked by an emblem with three traces, a statue) and decide up some quests. These are usually bounties and quick aspect missions. Finishing message board duties gained’t internet you an identical experiences as most important or aspect missions, however they ceaselessly result in extra alternatives just because they drive you to discover extra of the large map. We routinely discovered new avenues for expertise factors whereas finishing a bounty on a mercenary’s head.