How to use 14 level items?

[Borscht & Blade]

I play region locked game. I got the Kruppe's Saex (14 lvl, requires 13 lvl). After defeating boss of Drombach. I'm not sure, but it seems impossible to get your companions to level 13.

But then how to use this dagger? Only find some level 14 outlaws? Is there some other possibility? Or maybe level cap is higher, than I think? I cannot find any fresh information about that

[Quacksalber]

You can craft a training dummy for camp. Anyone assigned to that levels up quickly.

[Stardustfire]

read what he asked, you can train till you rot, but you will never get a lvl 13 normal merc (hello lvl 12 cap) , at least not until now.

[Spawnling]

Originally posted by Stardustfire:

read what he asked, you can train till you rot, but you will never get a lvl 13 normal merc (hello lvl 12 cap) , at least not until now.

Max level is 13 (my whole party is level 13)
Edit: Level cap was increased to 13 with the release of the Pirate of Belerion DLC. You don't need to own the DLC for this.

Originally posted by EH!:

You can craft a training dummy for camp. Anyone assigned to that levels up quickly.

This. At level 12 each rest should give each assigned merc 20% their max XP. So 5 rests = level 13.

[Quacksalber]

Originally posted by Stardustfire:

read what he asked, you can train till you rot, but you will never get a lvl 13 normal merc (hello lvl 12 cap) , at least not until now.

All my mercs and a bunch of animals were level 13 in the playthrough I just completed, including new recruits that were several levels behind initially.

[Borscht & Blade]

Originally posted by Spawnling:

Originally posted by Stardustfire:

read what he asked, you can train till you rot, but you will never get a lvl 13 normal merc (hello lvl 12 cap) , at least not until now.

Max level is 13 (my whole party is level 13)
Edit: Level cap was increased to 13 with the release of the Pirate of Belerion DLC. You don't need to own the DLC for this.

Originally posted by EH!:

You can craft a training dummy for camp. Anyone assigned to that levels up quickly.

This. At level 12 each rest should give each assigned merc 20% their max XP. So 5 rests = level 13.

Thanks a lot!