Borderlands 2 – XP Experience and Leveling Guide

In Borderlands 2 there are 50 Experience levels with each level reached by gaining XP points.  As with all games experience is gained when you kill enemies, this includes enemies you kill, enemies your team mates kill and enemies under your team mates control (Maya’s Toughlock).  You also gain experience points when you complete a level/mission and do a location discovery.  When you fight and kill enemies and take on missions that are a higher level then you are you gain more XP points and get better items rewards.  Taking on weaker enemies and levels gets you of course less XP points, this means eventually playing lower levels is almost pointless if you are trying to level.

When you increase your levels you are granted spendable skill points in which you can use to increase skill levels for whoever you are playing.  The skill points increase (as shown in the table) the higher the level you are the more skill points you get when you reach the next level.   As you increase skill level it also takes a lot more XP to make it to the next level as shown in the table its a large jump between levels once you get past level 35 its a huge jump in EXP needed for the next level.

Spending Skill Points and Skill Tree

With Skill points you will not start earning them until you reach level 5 where you will be granted 1 skill point, you need this skill point to unlock your characters action skill, so really you don’t actually get to start increasing skills until level 6.   In total when you reach level 50 you will have 1035 skill points to assign with level 50 granting you 45 Skill points to assign as with any skill points be selective in which skills you want to unlock and build up.

Each character has three skill trees each with 6 levels or “tiers” where you can use your skill points, you will only be able to spend skill points on the first “tier” when you hit level 6 and the second set of skills can only be unlocked when you have at least 5 points spent in Tier 1.  The third tier is unlocked once you have 10 skill points spent.  This will happen for each tier of skills.

Special Skills

There are special skills in borderlands 2 that grant unique and powerful abilities also known as “Game Changers”.  In general these skills are very powerful and only need 1 skill point to make a huge different in the characters ability to use this skill.  These Game Changers are found at various places within the skill tree level.  The second special skill is called the Capstone, this is a accumulation of that skill tree’s strengths and bonuses, this skill is often very powerful but can only be used once at a time.

 

Level Up and XP/Experience Chart

Level XP Experience XP Needed for next level Skill Points Earned

1

0 358 0

2

358 883 0

3

1241 1609 0

4

2850 2526 0

5

5,376 3621 0 (Unlock Action Skill)

6

8997 4869 1

7

13866 6342 2

8

20208 7918 3

9

28126 9672 4

10

37798 11579 5

11

49377 13639 6

12

63016 15845 7

13

78861 18200 8

14

97061 20696 9

15

117757 23335 10

16

141092 26114 11

17

167206 29032 12

18

196238 32084 13

19

228322 35273 14

20

263595 38595 15

21

302190 42048 16

22

344238 45635 17

23

389873 49349 18

24

439222 53192 19

25

492414 57164 20

26

549578 61262 21

27

610840 65485 22

28

676325 69833 23

29

746158 74305 24

30

820463 78900 25

31

899363 83617 26

32

982980 88455 27

33

1071435 93415 28

34

1164850 98493 29

35

1263343 85748 30

36

1349091 126950 31

37

1476041 114442 32

38

1590483 119993 33

39

1710476 104615 34

40

1815091 152491 35

41

1967582 137344 36

42

2104926 143359 37

43

2248285 149487 38

44

2397772 155729 39

45

2553501 162085 40

46

2715586 168553 41

47

2884139 175134 42

48

3059273 181825 43

49

3241098 188630 44

50

3429728   45