Early game xp grinding?

[neogunhero]

What is the best way to level up early in the game? Is there a certain place to farm, or certain method to get xp fast for all levels?

I was really close to the end of this game about a year or two ago. Stopped playing for a long time, came back to find that Steam did not put my save file in the cloud, even though every single game I own that supports cloud saves is enabled. Not sure why this game did not save to the cloud.

[DedZedNub]

Well, you have a Skills Page for your character. There are 3 branches to it, not counting what is in The Following. Then you will add a Legends Branch after you hit max on one of the 3 branches.

Basically, everything you do automatically adds to experience. Think of it this way:

1) Power Skills basically increase you ability in combat. So any combat increases it.
2) Agility Skills are about parkour. The wilder your moves, the more frequent, the more you are rewarded. Sprinting, jumping, using any of the Agility Skills, gives XP.
3) Survivor Level, well check those skills and you should get an idea.

The enemies increase in variety and danger as your Story Progression increases.

It really pays to explore, as you find blueprints and people to help. Side missions help you in many ways without increasing directly Story Progression.

Check out the Dying Light Wiki, it has a good amount of info on increasing Skills and more about DL.

Also, for later on, for advanced combat play, I would recommend any of the Steam Guides here by Blademaster.

[Pigeons555]

Any kills will give you Power XP to level up your Combat. You can get the Kill Frenzy skill at level 11 Power I think to help you level up even faster.

Any Parkour moves will increase Agility, as well as killing zombies with Traps, like spikes or throwing Firecrackers in gas puddles. My favorite way of leveling up Agility was using Vault on zombies, landing on them to break my fall and repeating it until they died. I'm not sure if this is a decent way to level Agility, but it's easily farmable and it's what I did on a new save.

Survivor level increases when doing quests/side quests/random encounters/quarantine zones and staying out at night without dying. You could deliver DROPs but they give way more on Nightmare mode so you should consider saving them; you won't need them to reach Survivor level 25 anyway I promise.

[neogunhero]

Originally posted by DedZedNub:

Well, you have a Skills Page for your character. There are 3 branches to it, not counting what is in The Following. Then you will add a Legends Branch after you hit max on one of the 3 branches.

Basically, everything you do automatically adds to experience. Think of it this way:

1) Power Skills basically increase you ability in combat. So any combat increases it.
2) Agility Skills are about parkour. The wilder your moves, the more frequent, the more you are rewarded. Sprinting, jumping, using any of the Agility Skills, gives XP.
3) Survivor Level, well check those skills and you should get an idea.

The enemies increase in variety and danger as your Story Progression increases.

It really pays to explore, as you find blueprints and people to help. Side missions help you in many ways without increasing directly Story Progression.

Check out the Dying Light Wiki, it has a good amount of info on increasing Skills and more about DL.

Also, for later on, for advanced combat play, I would recommend any of the Steam Guides here by Blademaster.

Yes I know all of this already. I'm talking more about exploits or specific farming practices. I have 90 hours on this game and you think I don't know about the skills page? lol

[Hokuto]

Yeah, you know what is the skills in the game. My method is the following: for a beginner character I go to the bigger bridge in the first city, put my character on a car and crash the head of each zombies near the car (in 10 minutes you can kill more than 200 zombies). You can do the same in the night for more experience but take car about the rapace.

[Poppi !!]

Tip; for super quick, easy agility XP, utilize low fences, concrete roadblocks, guardrails...any of that type. Hop, hop, hop.

For quick weaponless Power XP, make use of all the electrifying and fuel pools. All you Have to do is stand there and occasionally toss firecrackers.

[Parcelyte]

Agility: Get the sliding skill and go to the bottom left corner of the Slums map (where Gazi and Mama are). There is a tunnel with a chest to unlock. Go there at night and slide against the chest over and over again. Nets you really fast agility xp.

Power: I don't really know any trick besides going to a spot with a lot of zombies (the bridge on the right at the Slums map e.g.) and throw Molotovs or Grenades at them.

Survivor: Just look out for a quarantine called "Stuffed Turtle" and do 3-package runs. (I suggest you watch a video on that) Easy survivor and Legend XP later on.

[DedZedNub]

@ Neogunhero

Sorry, I never research the number of hours played by someone who posts with questions. I try to go by the initial post and be helpful. That way I don't bias my response and others may find it useful.

As for any special farming methods, I find such grinds boring, and they don't have me improve any faster, really. You can do the Quarantine Areas, there are guides for this -- Stuffed Turtle is the easiest for quick XP.

But, you see Dying Light is pretty well balanced. I can do what I want and I'll get more ingredients than you will doing Stuffed Turtle. So I'll have all the crafting goods I need to upgrade things, I'll have many ways to make more medkits and explosives, also for boosters and so on. I can also get pretty much identical gear via just looking for quests as I go and exploring for more quests, survivors to help, and blueprints I find along the way.

So, although farming Stuffed Turtle is possible, and their are guides on Steam just check above the Discussions for ways to XP quickly -- you may burn out and also find you don't have as many options.

At the point in the game where the clock doesn't move, you can get well ahead of the curve, finding items, xploring, freeing survivors and also Safe Houses, and that will count for probably more to avoid deaths than Stuffed Turtle farming. Likewise, I play solo, and find Prison Raids rather wasteful of gear and a pain, and the Bozak Horde is not my thing either, as it requires memorizing the map via repeated attempts to do well, or else my playing co-op, and I don't have the time to do that.

Thus my answer was in the line it is. I also prefer that sort of pure live as a survivor experience than following recipes and repeated behavior. I can watch a gerbil doing that. Why not have fun instead in my own Zombie movie?

Sorry, I misunderstood your request. I've played over 500 hours, at least another 100 offline not recorded. So I am not bored by it yet. But I actually find the earlier game more enjoyable than the later game, but all of it is good. I have a ton of cash in the game, and tons of ingredients for when I do a New Game +. I am playing some of my early Hard Mode game during Events also, just for fun.

[Transience]

The way I personally grind is to grapple zombies into spikes. This nets you both agility and power experience. One of the best places I've found to do this is right outside Rais' garrison. There's usually a big crowd there, as well as an easy escape should you get in trouble.

[♥GuG♥]

If you want to farm agility points....did this basically while watching a movie in the background.....is to go into a collapsed concrete pipe (i think to the south-eastish of the tower) and you just sprint and slide from one end to the other and rest when you are out of breath, at first for me this was very tedious but then it kinda fell to muscle memory after a few minutes and i was able to watch a movie....hope this helps