Borderlands 2 offers a vast world filled with loot, challenges, and levelling up. But for those eager to reach the max level and conquer the toughest foes, the standard grind might feel slow.
This guide details efficient strategies to accelerate your Borderlands 2 journey. We’ll explore alternative approaches beyond repetitive farming. Forget mindless grinding! We’ll unveil proven strategies to maximize the gain of your experience.
1. Pairing Up with A Higher Level Player
Create a new character and finish the game tutorial. Once that’s over, Save and quit the game. Now go to matchmaking and choose ‘Quick Match’. You’ll be paired up with someone well into the late game if you’re lucky.
That means tons of experience points for you, provided you decide to tag along.
2. Tiny Tina Unlimited XP Glitch
Head on over to ‘Tundra Express’ and meet with ‘Tiny Tina’ at her workshop. She will give you a side mission, asking you to retrieve some of her stuffed animals. On completion, Tiny Tina will give you another side mission, asking you to kite Fleshstick, a bandit, into her workshop.
Now, this is a failable mission, and if you kill Fleshstick, you can always go back and take the quest again. However, every time you kill Fleshstick, you’ll be given around 1720XP. This will, of course, start to fall a bit once your level goes higher.
3. Exploiting Varkids
Head on to ‘Caustic Caverns’ and open the huge double doors. Right outside will be a swarm of varkids. Don’t kill them yet; you need to lower their health to transform them into their second form. When the pods come in front of you, quickly destroy them.
Each pod that you destroy gives you around 1290XP. There are around five varkids outside the doors, which results in 6450XP in just 10 seconds.
Now run straight ahead (North), past the threshers, into the ‘Infested Warehouse’. There are a lot of varkids here, and 3 minutes of killing pods here will earn you around 10,000XP. If you’re interested in grinding, five hours here will earn you around 1, 000, 000XP and that’s a lot.
4. Marcus Unlimited XP Glitch
When you first reach Sanctuary, meet Marcus at his shop. He’ll give you the quest ‘Rock, Paper, Grenade’ (Fire Weapons). Instead of shooting off the bandits with fire weapons, kill them with any normal gun. They will respawn every time, giving you around 70XP on each kill.
5. Help A Friend
If you have progressed in the game and want to help a friend level his character, this is what you do. Ask them to join your game on True Vault Hunter Mode. His new character will get huge amounts of experience every time you complete a quest.
For example, grabbing the gun from the container after Claptrap loses his eye will get you enough XP for Level 5.
6. Taking Fast Routes
For this, you gotta take some fast routes. Generally, the fast route is first to play normally till Sanctuary. Also, you can get to level 7 by playing again and again against Boom/Bewm Boss fights.
Then, rush through the Firehawk to accept the ‘In Memoriam’ side quest. Once you have done it, Boll will be farmable. Farming Boll grants you various Fast Balls, which is a good exp.
Further, continue with the story until Bad Maw enters Bloodshed Stronghold and then do a safe quit. Kill Bad Maw and then go back into Safe Quit. Rinse and repeat the step to gain more exp.
7. Refarm Bosses
You can also redo bosses and farm them for some sweet XP gain. Bosses such as The Warrior and Tinder Snowflake won’t be a problem for a lower level. The Ancient Dragons of Destruction nets the most XP but is also significantly harder to defeat. If you get good enough, repeatedly farm the game’s bosses to accumulate XP and level up fast in Borderlands 2. Another thing you need to focus on is the enemies that transform into beast forms when struck.
8. Slap Happy Mission
You’ll need to be in Ultimate Vault Hunter mode and have completed the main story until Sanctuary is flying in the sky. You’ll also need to complete the side mission “The Good, The Bad, and The Mordecai” to obtain an XP Relic, significantly boosting your experience gain. Additionally, you’ll need to complete a few side quests for Hammerlock to unlock the “Slap Happy” mission, allowing you to farm a unique badass thresher called Old Slappy.
Old Slappy has a chance to drop the legendary shotgun known as the Striker, but more importantly, he gives a massive amount of experience per kill, ranging from 11,000 to 17,000 XP. To farm him efficiently, you’ll want to spawn at the Highlands extraction point and then fast-travel to a specific door, allowing you to respawn at that door every time you kill Old Slappy. You can quickly level up your character with the XP Relic and this farming method.
This method is considered one of the best XP methods in the game, rivaling the Mick Zafford method that was previously popular. With the right gear and strategy, you can quickly level up your character and take on the toughest challenges in Borderlands 2.
