Eternal21 Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 (edited) So I was following the guide, did my first playthrough as good Cole on Easy and got all the upgrades without any issues. The 2nd playthrough on hard was a different story. I knew it would be tough coming up with XP - I just didn't realize how tough. After doing only the main story, I still needed about 12,000XP to upgrade my Lightning Power. After I got the Hard trophy, I changed my difficulty to Easy, and started doing the 15 Evil Missions, but you only get 100XP per each one, so it's really a drop in the ocean. I checked some grinding methods on youtube, but they were all painfully slow. I just wanted a method that would get me 12,000XP FAST! Well, not sure if it was posted before, but I found one. You need evil mission in the Warren district (all the way on the bottom left of the district). It's called 'Night on the Town'. You are flying with a bunch of reapers and killing Dustmen. When the mission starts, you go to first checkpoint and kill a few dustmen on two narrow buildings. After that you go to the final location where a crapload of Dustmen (15 or so) spawn on a roof below you. Here's what you do then. 1. Kill yourself. 2. When you respawn, turn right, stand to the left of the little chimney and use the thunder ability by holding button. You don't need to see the Dustmen below, just stand by the Chimney. 3. The power will kill between 8-12 dustmen, for 10XP each, and you'll also get 20XP for unstopable bonus (5 kills in a row). 4. Don't use your entire power, save a little juice for a couple grenades, which you'll toss at the air conditioning unit to your left, so they bounce back and kill you. 5. Rinse and repeat. It literally takes 10 seconds if not less to make between 100-140XP. That means over 500XP per minute. I was able to earn my 12,000XP in about 15 minutes. Make sure you save the game before you start doing this, just in case you mess up, and also save again every 5 minutes or so, in case you kill all Dustmen by accident (hasn't happened to me once, but you never know). Edited December 10, 2013 by Eternal21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kfree7 Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Nice post Eternal. This should help people that are new to the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreativeRhino Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Nice post. I'll try this out when the time comes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsYcHoNoVaPRiME Posted February 17, 2014 Share Posted February 17, 2014 I don't see why there is a need to boost XP. I'm going to have in excess of 8,000 XP after clearing all of the areas on my Hard/Evil playthrough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eternal21 Posted February 17, 2014 Author Share Posted February 17, 2014 (edited) I don't see why there is a need to boost XP. I'm going to have in excess of 8,000 XP after clearing all of the areas on my Hard/Evil playthrough. Good for you. Like I said - in my case I was 12000 short - hence the need for boosting. Also keep in mind that the more you die or fail missions during your playthroughs, the more money you'll make. Edited February 17, 2014 by Eternal21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iPhast Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Very nice tip ! Its also a great spot to farm for the "Get Off My Cloud" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FinalAxel Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 crap, just finished Hard playthrough, all missions complete, and still am 5500 short for the last evil power Guess I did so well, hardly ever died, lol. Well, off looking for some XP grinding tips Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shanehi185 Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 On my hard play through now so I'll trythis out. Something wierd though this time is I don't have 1/2 my sound. I don't here zeek and cole talking, or anyone on the phone but I hear cole in the cut scenes. I Started the game over and it's still the same, not sure what's going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaTechnoD00d Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 On my Good playthrough, I got every upgrade with 15,000 XP to spare, and on my Evil playthrough, I got every upgrade with 12,000 XP to spare. I did these both on Easy, however. I know the amount of XP you get from enemies is reduced by a factor of 3/5, rounded up, but is that really that bad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foyomail Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 Wish i'd seen this before, i'm still about 6000xp short and already did all evil missions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x9zachattack5x Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 Wish i'd seen this before, i'm still about 6000xp short and already did all evil missions Me too, this trophy sucked lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hope090209 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 Excellent. Going to fall a good few thousand short so will do this! Lovely! Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eriol Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 Noooooo I should have seen this before I cleared out all evil missions and now I have to get my xp the veeeery long way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilRASli Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 Just in time, thank you very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amuro Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 This was a very useful tip. I really didn't want to do 2 playthroughs...again, so this was helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taterman Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 This was a very useful tip. I really didn't want to do 2 playthroughs...again, so this was helpful. Word - I just came back to plat this game, glad I found this for my Evil playthrough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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