Introduction and general hints | Leveling-up through grind TERA Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

If you have decided to level-up in this way, you need to be prepared for hours, upon hours of arduous eliminating of monsters, who are often strong and present the pain in the neck attitude. As a reward for going into so much trouble, you will receive experience much faster than you otherwise would have, by doing the story mode, and probably better drops. Unfortunately, you are up for a lonely game, probably, because a companion will not be cooperating tightly, and will only lag behind.

There are several things that you need to note, before you go down your path:

1. If you want to level-up through grind, never fight with monsters that are weaker than you - you will then receive much less experience. Fight only with monsters at the level the same as yours, or higher by one or two levels - the fight is then more demanding (and at the same time more interesting), but it is fully paid for in terms of more experience points.

2. Make sure that your equipment is always up-to-date. You cannot allow a situation, in which you are at level 20, and half of your equipment still remains at level 20. Use the Trade Broker t obtain valuable items (but you should not exaggerate with the price, because there is no point in investing hundreds of gold pieces into equipment that you will replace after several hours anyways).

3. If you get the opportunity (i.e. if the items that you are using are right) always enchant (upgrade) them, and especially your weapon. Enchanting an item to the level of +6 does not cost a fortune, and the results you achieve will surely astonish you. There is no point in enchanting above +6, because it is costly and you will replace the equipment that you are using pretty quickly, as soon as you gain a few additional levels.

4. Read through the hints contained at the beginning of this guide, and also in the section concerned with questing - you will find there information that may prove useful.

5. If you decide to fight with a BAM, do not push it and do not engage more than ONE at a time - fighting two BAMs that are at your level, or higher, requires learning these opponents well (each BAM type requires a different tactic) and good control over your character. If you decide to fight two, or more, BAMs, without being well-prepared for that, it will surely end in your death and loss of time.

6. Boost on the experience that you gain from killing mobs. These boosts are very expensive, if you want to buy them at an auction, but they make gaining experience much faster. You can ignore them, throughout the first several dozens of levels, but after you reach, around, level 45, try to use them at all times.