Progression

Levels and experience

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Where it starts: you level as in the base game – killing, crafting, gathering, journeys. VAM changes the curve, not the sources.

• Levels 1 to 60 need 1.3 times the vanilla experience.
• From level 61 on, every level costs 4.5 % more than the one before.
• Level 100 – the standard maximum – needs about 59.5 million experience in all. By then you have 1,337 talent points; on a server with a higher maximum, every further level adds 1.

Servers with a different maximum. Admins can set the maximum level anywhere from 60 to 900.

• Above 100, every level needs 2.5 million experience on a standard setting and gives 1 talent point, but no attribute points. Admins can lower that cost (Experience per Level above 100).
• Below 100, the talent points are spread over the shorter way, so you still get all 1,337.
• Level gifts, milestone cards and the Ouroboros cycle move with the maximum (see below).

Kill experience bonuses come from several places – the Expertise perk at 40, the Ouroboros card Allfather's Ravens, the ring bonus of completed cycles, XP potions and the Killing milestones of inspiration. Together they add at most +150 % (2.5 times the normal experience) on a standard server.

XP potions raise experience from kills: the XP Potion (60 Min) by 50 %, the 30-minute potion by 35 %, the 15-minute potion by 25 %.

Level gifts (Shift+P › Rewards)

Where it starts: at level 10. Open Shift+P › Rewards. A path shows every gift; Your next reward and Best rewards ahead sit on the right. Click Claim (or press Enter) once you have reached the level. The gift goes straight into your backpack.

The standard list:

• That is 27 gifts, 13 of them with Valkyrian Tokens on top.
• With a different maximum level the gifts move with it: at a maximum of 60 they come at levels 6 to 60, at 900 at levels 90 to 900. Gifts you already claimed stay claimed.
• In every new Ouroboros cycle the gifts come back. Chests, bags and crates grow with your completed cycles: ×2 in the second cycle, ×3 in the third, at most ×4. The heart and the Heartstone come again, one each. The pets, the warhammer and the sword blueprint come only in your first cycle.
• A full backpack does not eat a gift: you get a message and the gift stays ready to claim.

Attributes and attribute perks

Attributes go up to 40 (admins can set the maximum between 20 and 60). The vanilla perks end at 20 points; VAM adds one perk at 30 and one at 40 for every attribute. They come by themselves once you have spent that many points on the attribute – points from gear do not count. Active perks show as buff icons, with their text under Stats › Effects & Sigils.

Attribute books. The Lesser, Medium and Greater Attribute Book give 1, 4 and 8 attribute points. A book only works while all your attribute points stay within 2.4 per character level (144 at level 60, 240 at level 100 on a standard server). A book that does not fit yet stays in your bag and tells you the level at which it will.

Inspiration (Shift+P › Inspiration)

Where it starts: with the first new thing you pick up or kill.

Earning points. Discoveries earn inspiration points in five accounts: Crafting, Building, Killing, Religion and Nature. A new kind of enemy is rarer than a new item, so Killing points count twice when you buy a booster (on a standard server).

• The 1st, 10th, 100th and 1,000th piece of an item that newly reaches your backpack each give a point – as far as the item's stack size allows. An item that does not stack only has the first step.
• The 1st, 10th, 100th and 1,000th kill of each kind of enemy gives a point too.

Milestones. At 10, 30, 70 and 150 points an account reaches a milestone with a lasting bonus. Some milestones teach talents for free, once your level allows. Each milestone of the Killing account also adds kill experience.

Boosters and your deck.

1. On the Inspiration page, spend points on a booster of five cards. Higher booster tiers need a higher character level: tiers II to V open at levels 20, 40, 60 and 80 on a standard server (they move with the maximum level).
2. Set your best cards into your deck. A card takes effect after a short attunement (60 seconds on a standard server), so swapping cards before every fight does not pay. Only one card of each motif fits.
3. You start with 5 deck slots; every completed Ouroboros cycle adds one, up to 12.

What to do with spare cards.

• Three copies of a card upgrade to the next rarity (this costs silver).
• Spare cards can be dismantled for points (on a standard server at most 50 points per day).
• Seal turns a card into an item you can sell or mail. Redeem sealed cards puts it back into a collection. One example is the Sealed Card: Mimir's Pupil in five rarities – (Black), (Bronze), (Silver), (Gold) and (Mythic): +0.5 % to +4 % profession experience. The Black, Bronze and Gold cards also carry a small drawback.

Every completed Ouroboros cycle also adds 25 points to every account on a standard server.

Valkyrian Tokens

The mod's reward currency. Coins stay the money for trade, repairs and drills.

Earning tokens: bounties, bounty contracts, profession stages and level gifts.

Spending tokens: the Shop tab of the Shift+P window (the profession shop), the bounty shop at the Bounty Board and Ouroboros card rerolls. Tokens cannot be sold at the Auction House.

Numbers on a standard server (admins can change them):

Ouroboros

Where it starts: at the maximum level (100 unless the server changed it), on the Ouroboros page of Shift+P. Ouroboros is switched on by default; admins can turn it off.

Completing a cycle – step by step

1. Reach the maximum level and open Shift+P › Ouroboros.
2. Complete the cycle and confirm.
3. You start again at level 1. Your attributes and the talents you bought with talent points are reset.
4. What stays: professions, inspiration, Valkyrian Tokens, cards and items.
5. Your ring and title change, and you receive the cycle's rewards.
6. Choose one of three Ouroboros cards. Don't like the offer? Reroll offer draws three new ones for tokens (25, the second time 50; two rerolls per cycle).
7. After the cycle, Relearn previous knowledge (N) buys back the talents you knew before, as far as your level, their prerequisites and your talent points allow. (The number on the button can be too high until your next login; that costs you nothing.)

Ouroboros cards stay forever. The same card can be taken up to three times, and several cards of one kind add up. Values per card on a standard server:

Milestone cards. At 20, 40, 60 and 80 % of the maximum level (levels 20, 40, 60 and 80 by default) you also pick a milestone card at half strength. Milestone cards end when the cycle is completed.

Rings. Every completed cycle adds 10 % kill and crafting experience on a standard server – 7 rings give +70 %. The kill part counts towards the +150 % cap above.

Cycle 7 gives a Legendary Weapon Loot Chest as its reward on a standard server.

Tips

• Plan your Ouroboros cards: Mimir's Well speeds up every profession, Allfather's Ravens every next cycle.
• Spend inspiration points as soon as a booster tier opens; cards in your deck work right away after their attunement.
• On a server with a very high maximum level, ask your admin about Experience per Level above 100 – at 100 % a cycle to level 900 needs about 2 billion experience.

Common mistakes

Related chapters

• Getting Started – the Shift+P window
• Professions and Crafting – profession stages, the profession shop
• The World – the Bounty Board and its shop
• For Admins – maximum level, rewards and all progression settings