Experience (XP) is gained through killing creatures (not other players), performing missions and combining items to modify or build. Your current XP is shown as an orange bar on the left side of the screen. When this bar fills up, you gain a new level, and the pool is emptied. The amount of XP you need to gain a new level increases with each level.

When killing creatures, you gain more XP when the creature is higher level. If the creature is substantially lower level than you (its health bar will be grey), you will only gain 1 XP for killing it.

Levels

When gaining a level, you will get a small boost to your health and nano pool. Most importantly, you will gain new Inprovement Points (IP for increasing your skills. Also, the maximum to which your skills can be increased will rise, so skills you couldn’t increase more on the previous level can now be increased again.

Title levels

Title levels divide the 220 levels of Anarchy Online into several stages. Within each title level there a limit to how high you can raise a skill. When you get your skills to this limit, you can either spend them on other skills, giving your character a broader selection of skills, or you can just save the IP for the next title level.

You sart out at title level 1. New title levels are gained at levels 15, 50, 100, 150, 190 and 205.

Shadowlevels

When you reach level 200, you will no longer gain XP. You will need to make your final decision about which side to belong to, and then set out to aquire Shadowknowledge. By that time you’re sure to know the game better than most players though, and we won’t cover that in this guide.