Maximum level achievable in ACT 1?

[Serious Squirrel]

Do all the quests and discoveries right up to Alexander then murder everyone who gives exp and you would be level?

[Sapwn]

I tried to kill everything and left with 3x8 (close to 9) and Ifan 9 (he gets an XP boost at some point, that noone in the group does).

Edit: On Classic, no idea if XP is different in different game modes.

[Serious Squirrel]

Im fairly certain exp is the same, thanks for the reply

[IVR]

That happened to me in my first playthrough. In the second, Ifan has the same amount of exp.
In both games i finish the game with level 8 and reached level 9 after the fight in the ship.

[Serious Squirrel]

Im doing another run thru where I get to lvl 2 before leaving the ship to see if I can get higher than lvl 9 on honor mode. Or just how high I can actually get anyways.

[CrazyOdd]

Originally posted by Serious Squirrel:

Im doing another run thru where I get to lvl 2 before leaving the ship to see if I can get higher than lvl 9 on honor mode. Or just how high I can actually get anyways.

Be carefull on the ship, where and with who you trigger fights. Do it wrong and a lot of the companions die (7 magisters + dog at once, is too much), not to mention that the witch can do her thing earlier then intended.
Plus, take care about triggering "murderer" event: Gil and the lizard servent, plus any alive magisters can trigger it. It will normally lead to chaining fights and can even force you to kill companions (they want to kill the murderer, even when they where a part of the murder).

[Fonglet]

you can get your full party to level 9 but you have to be pretty anal about it.

[Jackal]

I got to level 9 by killing everything, the only ones left alive in the whole map were Gareth, Saheila and Malady. You also have to kill slane, but you can do it effortless, just teleport him when he is a lizard close to alexander

[Serious Squirrel]

Originally posted by Chiobe:

Originally posted by Serious Squirrel:

Im doing another run thru where I get to lvl 2 before leaving the ship to see if I can get higher than lvl 9 on honor mode. Or just how high I can actually get anyways.

Be carefull on the ship, where and with who you trigger fights. Do it wrong and a lot of the companions die (7 magisters + dog at once, is too much), not to mention that the witch can do her thing earlier then intended.
Plus, take care about triggering "murderer" event: Gil and the lizard servent, plus any alive magisters can trigger it. It will normally lead to chaining fights and can even force you to kill companions (they want to kill the murderer, even when they where a part of the murder).

Its actually not a problem as Im doing this to see if I can make it to act 2 honor mode with a single lone wolf character :D (the other plyable toons dying that is)

[Jackalope]

9 is probably the effective max for most players, but it requires optimal quest completion, and probably a fair amount of killing every living thing in sight.

8 is much more achievable with solid quest completion and maybe a little bit of magister /silent watcher housecleaning at the castle. This is the ideal for me. Ideally you want to be level 8 going into the Alexandar fight, because it makes that fight easier, and it means you'll probably be level 9 by reapers coast, which is about right.

7 is a bit under-levelled, and you'll struggle for a while in act 2.

[Iry]

ZRT has it right.
You can squeeze out Level 9 if you are very thorough, but Level 8 is the most common.

[surreptitious]

no problem lvl 9 .. just do all main content , if you kill all magisters .. i didn't kill grif .. or the town ... i did kill alexander twice which is probably what makes it so effortless. Get the death fog barrels from the ship at the start and use one to kill alexander and his possy at the front gate to fort joy .

[cooldude772]

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