While you’ll grow stronger naturally through your adventures inDragon’s Dogma 2, there may be times when you seek to grind out some levels to increase your and your main Pawn’s strength. As with most RPGs, this is easy to do once you find the best ways to grind for experience.

As long as you’re not afraid of taking on stronger monsters than goblins, raiders, or wolves, you’ll likely have no issue earning experience from the beasts you conquer. In addition, you can roam the world completing quests that provide you with large amounts of XP while also usually providing some kind of extra reward as well.

A screenshot from Dragon’s Dogma 2 showing the mage casting spells like healing in front of a Cyclops in a forest as a thief holds on to the side of its face.

How To Level Your Arisen And Pawn Fast

Whileyou will naturally levelas you progress through the game’s many fights and quests, there arethings you’re able to look out for to help levelyour character specifically. Sincethe levels are based on experience points, you’ll need todo activities that grant large amounts of XP.

Defeat Plenty of Monsters

As with any RPG worth its salt, you cangrind out some levels by challenging lots of monstersthat can be found all across the land. Usually, if you wander off the beaten path, you canfind a group of enemies or a large monsterthat needs to be dealt with.

Larger quantities andstronger monsters will come out at night, which willhelp you earn more experiencein exchange for increased danger.

A screenshot from Dragon’s Dogma 2 showing the player character as a thief standing next to a Cyclops on fire in a forest. Pawns names can be seen nearby the defeated monster.

While groups of enemies might be easierto take on,larger enemies can provide thousands of pointsof experience, which is immediately funneled into both your main character and the Pawn.

Some of thecommon large enemiesto look out for include:

Once you’vedefeated all the monstersin an area, you cantry resting at a campfire to replacethem. Repeating this process can be agreat way to get some easy levelsearly in the game.

Take And Complete Quests

You’llnaturally find new questsas you progress through your adventures in Dragon’s Dogma 2, be they themonumental main questsor helping civilian NPCs with their problems inside quests. Regardless, quests provide you withplenty of experience,gold, and sometimesan additional reward.

YourPawn won’t gain experience in the Riftwhile adventuring and taking quests, butyou can get additional itemsand RC.

A screenshot from Dragon’s Dogma 2 showing a Dragon in the wheat fields on the outskirts of Vernworth.

It’s hard to know which NPCswill give you a quest before they stop you in your tracks, butwandering around populated citieslike Vernworth is a great way to find some spare side quests. Once completed, bothyou and your Pawn will receive experiencefor the adventure.

Completingmain quests will likely give the mostexperience, butthere are plenty of extra opportunitiesto earn the experience as well.

A screenshot from Dragon’s Dogma 2 showing the player character having completed the ‘Vocation Frustration’ quest, which has leveled the companion to level 14.