Fastest Way to Level Up

[zeeter]

What's the fastest way to level up, outside of using glitches, cheats, or spamming something?
I have little interest in completing the main quest; just want to get to level 3 gunsmithing so I can make .44 bullets. My character is level 8 now and I think level 3 GSing is around level 23.

[asarokk]

Isn't that obvious? Complete quests. Do side-quests and radiant quests, discovering locations gives you XP., killing enemies gives you XP., hack terminals, unlock doors and containers, invest attribute points into Intelligence and learn perks that help you increase amount of XP you receive - even more so if you consume mentats or make use of idiot savant perk. Sleeping to gain "Well Rested" status also grants a bonus XP increase.

[inetd]

collect weapon and armor and disassemble them for resources also

[dbond1]

Play survival mode with Idiot Savant. You get double combat XP, and then with IS firing all the time you level up fast.

[socialmediaaddress3]

Originally posted by zeeter:

What's the fastest way to level up, outside of using glitches, cheats, or spamming something?
I have little interest in completing the main quest; just want to get to level 3 gunsmithing so I can make .44 bullets. My character is level 8 now and I think level 3 GSing is around level 23.

Kepe building things.
Then tear them down to recycle for the components and build more things.

Sanctuary as hundreds of units of wood and steel if you scrap all thos ecomponents.
Building things gives XP.

(Though I dont agree with this philosophy, I like to go slow and smell the roses :) )

[Xenon The Noble]

Build, kill people and animals, water farm.
That's the game, Doesn't matter who you kill, you can kill 'em all if you want and they deserve it.

[Zes]

completing main quest, and killing.

[Zes]

playing in survival mode, keep always "well rested" and get some mentats before turning big quests in..

[Nitemares]

Build fence posts.

Go to Sanctuary.
Scrap everything.
Then build fence posts. Each post gives you INT xp. Once out of wood and steel Scrap them to recover the wood and metal. Start again.

Idiot savant will also trigger if you have it.

with proper key stroke management, you will be lvl 50 in under an hour.

[X]

Build, build and build some more.
Quest, quest and do more quests.
You don't have to do the main quest but quest and building is how to level up.
There are many side quests in this game and building up all settlements you can will get the levels you need.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Take Idiot Savant as your first level up perk. Focus on getting to Diamond City to get Piper as a follower. max her affinity to get her gift of gab perk which doubles XP during speech checks and discovering new locations.

You can also use save scumming before completing quests to increase XP rewards to 3x-5x depending on your Idiot Savant perk level by reloading saves until it procs. That can make the difference between 300-400 XP to 1500-2k+ XP.