Orb Posted:

I pity any poor sap who starts Episode 2 at level 10. That is to say, I pity most of my alts. Grinding from level 10 to level 20 is currently horribly tedious, because no forum gives the amount of cred you really need to make it happen. The few forums that you have unlocked that give decent cred are nigh-impossible to take on until you are around at least level 17 due to the implemented-without-testing level balancer that makes you deal almost no damage to higher level forums.

To play Episode 2 you really HAVE to be at least level 15 and to play it without constantly dying/going through mountains of consumeables/spending hours to beat each forum, you have to be 17-20.

Actually it’s not fair to say it’s implemented without testing. I ran my balance bot on it many times and I tested the grinding from 10-25 myself.

The idea is to stick within 2 levels of yourself. You can’t grind against the forums that are much higher than you. With the community forums, you should always have a handful of forums within your pwning range at any given time.

If it’s taking more than 6 forum visits to level up, you are probably pwning the wrong forums.