SinceDragon Age: Inquisitionis an RPG, it’s no surprise that it includes a leveling system in which you gain XP to increase your level. As the game doesn’t include level-scaling by default, making sure you’re at a good level is important.

After all, if you jump into a hard fight against much stronger enemies, you and your party are likely to get destroyed very quickly. As a result, the Inquisition would end, the breach would never be fully closed, and everyone in the mortal world would likely be killed. As the leader of the Inquisition, you want to avoid all that. So, ensure you stay at a strong level by doing the following things to earn lots of XP.

Dragon Age Inquisition screenshot of Inquisitor zapping a Fennec.

Don’t Stick Around In Low-Level Areas

Naturally, you cangain plenty of XP during combatin Dragon Age: Inquisition. However, that isonly if you’re defeating enemies that are stronger or at a similar level to you.If you’re three levels higher than the people or creatures you’re slaying, then you won’t gain XP.

This can be an issue if you’re a completionist who wants to do everything at every location, as it’s easy to get too high of a level for the place you’re exploring. So, if you want to gain levels quicker, be prepared toleave areas before you’ve completed them entirely.You can always go back later to finish things off.

Dragon Age Inquisition screenshot of Inquisitor looking down at a scroll.

The Trespasser DLC includes the Even Ground trial, which you’re able to turn on. Doing so scales enemies to your level. As a result, you can gain a decent amount of XP from every foe, meaning you don’t need to leave ‘low-level’ areas, as they no longer exist.

Get The Underworld Knowledge, Arcane Knowledge, Nobility Knowledge, And History Knowledge Perks

During the game, you gain Inquisition Perk points by increasing your influence and finding agents. With these points, you canacquire all sorts of perks from the War Table.

If you want to boost your XP, then you want toacquire the Underworld Knowledge, Arcane Knowledge, Nobility Knowledge, and History Knowledge perks.After all, each one boosts how much XP you get fromunlocking codex entries.Once you have some of them, make sure to read every letter, book, or any other piece of paper you can find to add to your codex.

Dragon Age Inquisition screenshot of Inquisitor closing a rift.

Close Rifts

At the start of the game, it’s explained that your character’s special glowing green handallows you to close rifts in the sky.Then, once you start exploring, you will find plenty of these rifts.Closing them grants a decent amount of XP.

They aren’t always straightforward to close, as you have to fight the enemies spawning from them. If those creatures are much higher level than you, then you may really struggle. But anytime you see a rift surrounded by more level-appropriate foes, then you should go out of your way to close it.

Dragon Age Inquisition screenshot of party fighting the Northern Hunter dragon.

Hunt High Dragons

Hunting high dragons is one of themost dangerous but effective ways to gain XPin Dragon Age: Inquisition. These are giant beasts that you can find while exploring. There are ten in the base game, and two more are included in the DLCs.

Each one is avery powerful enemy that has plenty of health and deals a lot of damage.Therefore, you must be prepared before you confront one. Yet, slaying one of these beasts earns you a great amount of XP. If you may kill several of them, you’re sure to go up levels quickly.