Leveling up in Starfield is a crucial part of advancing your character, but it can take forever, so here’s a quick guide on how to level up fast in Starfield.
Starfield works differently from any other Bethesda game, with leveling being tied to perks and challenges. So let’s briefly make sure the basics of leveling up in Starfield are clear. When you gain enough experience through fighting, exploring, crafting, building, and all sorts of activities, you’ll level up and gain a skill point. This skill point can be added to a skill, which unlocks a perk so long as you have finished any qualifying challenges for the skill.
Luckily for you, it doesn’t matter what you do to level up, you can use the skill points exactly the same. You won’t have much of a problem leveling up just by playing, but it can help to find particularly effective ways to mass level ups and complete challenges. Luckily there are a few tips we can give prospective outer-space explorers on their upcoming journey through Bethesda’s galaxy.
One of the quickest ways to level up, and to upgrade your Starship-based skills in the Tech tree, is to participate in Starship training. This can be done from the United Colonies Vanguard building. If you haven’t yet joined the UC Vanguard, you will have to complete the training to join it first.
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The training involves a steadily escalating series of space fights in which you’re outnumbered by enemy ships and have to navigate through the challenges level by level. Otherwise, we recommend looking at each perk challenge
Ways to increase Starfield XP
These can be stacked to grant a whopping 17% extra experience relatively easily, with the vast majority of that coming from resting with a romanced companion.
As strange as it may sound, one of the best ways to level up fast in Starfield is to hunt alien wildlife on the easiest difficulty. The difficulty of Starfield has no effect on the experience you gain while playing. However, it does make killing enemies easier. Given that combat is the most consistent and easily repeated method to level up fast in Starfield, it is the key to most experience farming methods in the game.
Find a wildlife-dense planet to maximize your experience gain. Many fans recommend the Shrodinger system, specifically the planet Shrodinger III. This is full of wildlife that you can scan and then methodically kill over and over in an effort to farm experience. The lower the difficulty of the game when you do this, the better time-to-experience ratio you’ll have.
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