Here is a leveling strategy for launch to get you from level 1 to 100 with helpful tips along the way.
Choosing A World Tier
After you make your character, you’re going to want to begin your leveling journey in World Tier 1. Basically, the time to kill things in World Tier 2 isn’t worth the 20% more XP you get.
However, I would give World Tier 2 a try if you’re absolutely blasting things in World Tier 1. I’m expecting to change the World Tier 2 when I unlock the Twisting Blades aspect in Act 2 of the Campaign.
Feel it out and depending on the build and class you’re playing. You may find it easier just to stick to World Tier 1 and burn through the campaign.
Choosing A Build
Speaking of builds, you want your character as strong as possible for a nice smooth leveling experience? Do your research and check out multiple build guides for one that you think you will enjoy playing, but will still perform well?
Whatever your purpose, choosing and making a build is the way to go if you want to make your character powerful enough. By the way, in order to provide you with convenience, this website has a special “Build” column. You can view and choose the build you like here. And our build guides will be updated.
Complete The Campaign
Try to stick to the main campaign and don’t get sidetracked with cellars, side quests, events, and even most dungeons for now. There will be some exceptions to this as we continue.
Completing the campaign only needs to be completed once per account. Getting this done now means you have the option to skip it in the future for other characters and even seasons.
Unlock The Mounts
While progressing through the campaign, you’re going to be able to unlock the use of mounts. Keep an eye out for this and make sure you unlock them by using your Diablo 4 Gold as soon as possible.
Get your Legendary Aspects
One of the exceptions to deviate from the campaign will be to collect important legendary aspects for your build.
For example, I’ll be picking up the Blast-Trapper’s Aspect, which is supposed to be somewhere during the campaign in Act 1. I’ll also be picking up the Bladedancer’s Aspect to be somewhere in Act 2.
Both of these aspects provide a huge boost to the power of my build There’s going to be many aspects that will be a waste of your time to collect and even more of a waste to imprint on your gear as your leveling, which brings me to my next tip.
Save your Resources
Don’t use every legendary aspect you find just because you can. You’re going to be replacing your gear as you level. And imprinting every aspect back onto your gear will be a waste of resources.
Instead, choose only the top few game-changing aspects for the build you planned and put them on your jewelry, which you won’t need to be upgrading as much as your other gear.
For a Rogue or even a Barbarian, you can put the most important aspect onto your two-handed weapon if the build you’re using doesn’t use that weapon to deal damage.
For example, if you’re playing a melee Rogue build, like Twisting Blades, you don’t attack with your two-handed bow, so the damage you deal is not directly correlated to the power of it. This means you can use a low level bow with a powerful aspect on it without hurting your overall performance.
Gather Herbs
Make sure to collect any herbs you find as you’re traveling around. These will be used to upgrade your potion, so they restore more health. You can also herbs to craft different Elixirs, which will give you 5% more XP while you’re leveling.
Renown (5 Free Skill Points)
Each zone on the map has two skill points locked behind Renown. For now, I’m going to try to earn just enough Renown for the first the two skill points in each of the five zones.
To do this, I’ll be prioritizing waypoints, and areas discovered. If I complete the campaign in a zone before getting my 200 Renown, completing one or two dungeons should be enough. We’ll come back to each zone for the rest of the Renown later on. Our main priority is to complete the campaign and transition into World Tier 3.
Unlock World Tier 3
Once I’m around level 40 or 45, I’ll start trying to complete the Capstone Dungeon to unlock World Tier 3.
Unlocking higher World Tiers is mainly important because of the massive increased XP rates starting at 100 percent in World Tier 3. But there are also some items that can only drop in the higher World tiers.
Starting in World Tier 3, sacred and unique items will begin to drop. Sacred Items simply have higher stat roles. And Unique Items are even more rare than legendaries with really cool powers, which might be unique to your items.
You’ll also begin seeing Nightmare Sigils drop, which gives you access to Nightmare Dungeons. These basically make one of the normal dungeons a harder version with added challenges and increased drop rates.
Renown (Finish Skill Points)
Entering World Tier 3 will probably feel under leveled and weak if this is the case I plan to catch up on my Renown in open world activities. Because this content will be easier for us to complete than dungeons but will still help us catch up on levels.
Once I feel confident in my character’s power, I’ll start to complete each dungeon at least once for the Renown. Dungeons should be good XP while still completing the Renown for the other five skill points.
Unlock World Tier 4
As we play in World Tier 3 gaining levels and improving our gear, we’re aiming for level 60 to 65, depending on how the Capstone Dungeon went for World Tier 3.
Our goal is to get as powerful as we can as fast as we can to complete the second Capstone dungeon to unlock World Tier 4.
Once you unlock World Tier 4, you’re on the home stretch for level 100 with a whopping 200% increased XP rate. Repeat what we did at the start of World Tier 3 and try to get powerful enough to farm dungeons for the fast track to level 100.
