Assassin’s Creed Odyssey isn’t the first game in the series to have an RPG leveling system — Origins had a similar setup last year — but it’s incredibly important in Odyssey. How important? If you don’t actively seek out ways to earn experience points you’ll fall way behind and have an extremely hard if not impossible time completing the story.Cheap AC Odyssey Helix Credits So in the spirit of helping you through the grind we’ve put together a leveling guide that should hopefully eliminate some of your hard times in Ancient Greece.
Check the recommended level or level range
If you open your map you’ll notice that each land mass has a level recommendation. The lowest level areas where you start are under ten while a few areas go up to the mid-40s and even 50. Keep in mind that although the loot is better in tougher areas you’re unlikely to survive for very long if you go exploring while severely under-leveled. This includes sailing your ship near high-level areas as enemy ships will mirror the level of enemies ashore.
Know that story missions aren’t enough
In our Assassin’s Creed Odyssey review we emphasized that you won’t be able to sustain progression from just completing story missions especially as you get deeper into the game. On multiple occasions there are four-plus level jumps between story missions. This means that you won’t be able to breeze through Odyssey. We recommend keeping up with the required level of the missions if not one or two higher. Keep in mind that some mainline missions see an increase in level if you pass the original number. That’s OK though since this doesn’t affect future mission recommended levels.
Complete side quests
If you’re looking for a way to level up while still experiencing some fairly interesting content dedicated side quests are a good option. Side quests are marked on the map with exclamation points. All of them have a story element to them and some of them even lead to unlocking new mainline missions weird right? or additional side quests.AC Odyssey Helix Credits For Sale Many of these side quests unlock as you complete story missions in the same area. Most importantly side quests dole out as much and sometimes more experience than story missions. Essentially completing side quests is just as important as story quests during the grind.
Raid all locations
Side quests are finite though. There’s typically a handful of secondary quests for each level but after a while they won’t even be enough to keep you at a suitable level. That’s where all the in-between stuff comes in. All throughout Ancient Greece are enemy strongholds. Some of these are large Spartan Athenian or bandit bases while others are single buildings or even environmental landmarks. You don’t have to walk far to find opportunities to earn chunks of experience points. Fortresses are marked on the map with a red symbol while Leaders (powerful enemy houses) are marked with a blue symbol.
Often times you’ll stumble on enemy locations not previously marked on your map. You’ll know this when Alexios or Kassandra remarks that they should be quiet there. You can press L3 (down on the left thumbstick) to show location objectives. Sometimes objectives include killing an enemy captain and/or polemarch along with looting treasure chests and/or picking up key items and burning war supplies. Other times it’s just looting chests. It depends on the location. Smaller locations with less or no enemies lead to fewer experience points but they are still worth clearing out. It’s easy to snag 1,000 or more experience points for just a couple minutes work.