Farming XP?

[Darkin]

Is there any real solution to farming xp in this game. If there is, I'd like to know about it. I've been on forums and watching video's and I have failed to see one that works. Most forums say the following 3, which does give nice xp but isn't worth the risk.
1) Going to the bunker - Now what most forums fail to mention is the heavy radiation cloud surrounding that place. According to a youtube video, you can start farming the bunker at level 3. I fail to see how. You need a lot of radpills just to survive the radiation and 3-5 isn't a lot. You need enough to get into the bunker, explore and to leave again. According to forums, a level 3 miner can solo the bunker, L5 for a merc and engineer and L7 for a hunter. During that time I was a L13 hunter and died 7 times just trying to leave the bunker. If you have enough radpills, what the forums fail to mention is the tedious task of reaching the bunker, fighting the mobs outside the bunker and the very aggressive boss inside the bunker. Overall, the effort you put in compared to what you get, Not worth it.
2) Elder Cave Spiders - I farmed elder cave spiders from L14 - L16 (Where I'm currently at) and so far, not worth it. At this level, reaching the dead forest is easy enough. Make your way down to B3-1 and stand between the flesh eater and elder spider spawn point. A hunter does a decent amount of damage, a critical can surpass 1k with a Mosin. I'm using hp rounds and it takes 2 shots if it's below L10, 3 if it's above. According to forums, L8 miner, L10 merc and engineer and L12 hunter can solo elder spiders. Show me how. A L17 spider kills you in 2 attacks. Currently, I go in with 10 Large medikits, kill around 10 and then have to leave only being able to loot 5 of them. You get 350 xp for killing a L7 1k for a L19 and 80% of the time, you get jumped if you fire a shot. If 2 attack you at once, you are dead.
3) Fire Spiders - 5 HP rounds with a Mosin on a L3 fire spider takes around 50% of it's health, good luck reloading. So far, I've only managed to kill fire spiders with the help of a L40 miner friend taking the heat while I shoot. According to forums, L12 miner, L14 merc and engineer, L16/17 Hunter.
Best way I've managed to farm xp so far. Grab your rifle, take around 100 bullets, go to a boar spawn point and waste your afternoon farming 100 xp kills. A L20 elder boar can net you 250xp with premium. Near to no danger, low xp, low loot, survive. Farming any high xp methods are death traps and not worth the risk.

[Da pinata]

tbh the perfect run for me to enjoy this game from lvl 1 to 16 is to do quest
-first doing quests gets you alot of money which is important espicially for classes that require money early game such as merc...
-second griding early game is super boring and can be very hard early game until you get to lvl 2O and get the spider armor
from there doing fire spiders is really good from lvl 20-25
from then just farm sun spiders . if your faction owns a base in canyon
if that is not possible i would recommend keep doing fire spiders if you are without faction and then on your way back to solar city check the bunker for the symbiont boss which will speed up your xp farm
that way you can lvl up faster
-the point is dont grind early game it will make the game boring for you
you will make 0 money out of it
do the quests which will lvl you up fast and make the game fun to play
thx!

[Darkin]

The problem currently is, all active quests are way above my level. They say L8 recommended but there is no way. Such as killing the spider boss in the spider cave. Can hardly kill a mini spider that is at the entrance. My current missions are stuff like the minibike mission, need L20 to complete. Collect Chrome, need to do the spider cave. Collect Nomad's stuff, guarded by a L51 elder lizard. Kill big spiders, not alone with a hunter. Kill flesh eaters L10+, not alone with a hunter. Might have to farm missions but alone with a hunter it's near impossible.

[FilthyPeasant]

In mmo's there are two mains ways to level up your character. First is quests based around a story, like WoW. Then you have games like this and other early mmo's that have you killing a ton of stuff to get xp. You get a fair bit from quests but the main way is to just grind monsters. Lower levels can be tough in this game but once you figure out how stuff works and get the confidence you will beat stuff easy it's just learning the game.