• 📖 Main Story Quests (MSQ): Always your priority! Unlocks fast travel, Azoth staff, tools & regions.
  
• 📋 Town Board Missions: Grab easy ones (gather, craft, kill). Great passive XP while questing.
  
• 🛡️ Weapon Focus: Stick to 1–2 weapons. (e.g. Sword & Shield + Life Staff or Greatsword + Bow).
  
• 🪓 Gather While You Travel: Skin animals, mine ores, harvest hemp. Builds XP in multiple skills.
  
• 🧪 Craft Tools & Food: Light armor, harvesting tools, and rations boost your survivability.
  
• 💤 Use Rested XP: Always log out in a settlement or inn for bonus experience!

• 🎯 Keep Doing MSQ: Best XP/hour and unlocks endgame zones.
  
• 🤝 Run Expeditions: Amrine → Starstone → Depths → Dynasty. Queue via Group Finder.
  
• 🗺️ Faction Missions: Prefer PvE versions. Avoid PvP unless you're confident.
  
• 🛠️ Refine & Craft Regularly: Turn raw mats into refined goods to build trade XP.
  
• 🏃‍♂️ Unlock Shrines: Fast travel reduces downtime, especially across big zones.
  
• 🏡 Buy a House (Lvl 20+): Enables free recall & boosts storage.

• 💀 Elite Zones: High XP from dense mobs, elite chests, and crafting materials.
  
• ⚔️ Expeditions: Dynasty, Lazarus, Garden of Genesis — huge XP and gear score progress.
  
• 📈 Weapon Mastery: Level alternate weapons while farming elites or portals.
  
• 💰 Upgrade Bags & Gear: Boosts weight & damage. Replace old gear every few levels.
  
• 📦 Storage Tips: Use towns aligned with your faction and crafting hubs.
  
• 🏹 Build Synergy: Experiment with weapon combos that complement your playstyle.

• 🧭 Continue MSQ in Brimstone Sands & Elysian Wilds: Massive XP & access to top-tier content.
  
• ⚔️ Run High-Level Expeditions: Ennead, Empyrean Forge, Savage Divide (Group Finder helps a lot).
  
• 🏹 Upgrade Weapon Masteries: Level secondary builds or off-meta weapons.
  
• 🎒 Daily Bonuses: 3x faction missions + gypsum tasks = great XP & progress.
  
• 🧱 Craft Named Gear: Focus crafting professions toward endgame PvE/PvP builds.
  
• 🔁 Repeat Elite Zones: XP, loot & gypsum farming in one loop.

• 🪨 Mining: Iron → Silver → Starmetal → Orichalcum
  
• 🌾 Harvesting: Hemp, Herbs, Magical Plants, Wirefiber
  
• 🐺 Skinning: Wolves, Boars, Lynx – fast respawns, easy XP
  
• 🔥 Crafting: Prioritize Cooking, Arcana, Armoring, Engineering
  
• 🏭 Refining: Smelt, tan, weave – boosts XP + fills aptitude crates
  
• 💼 Sell or Use: Sell mats on Trading Post or use for powerful crafted gear

• 🎯 Stick to one weapon set until Level 20 mastery, then swap
  
• ⚔️ AoE skills = faster farming, better XP
  
• 🧠 Experiment with builds – respec is cheap and free early
  
• 🔄 You can swap weapons and skills at any time, so adapt freely!
  
• 🏹 Want a ranged option? Try Bow, Musket, or Fire Staff
  
• 🛡️ Prefer tanking? Sword & Shield or Greatsword
  
• 💉 Support? Life Staff or Void Gauntlet

• 💤 Log off in towns for rested XP
  
• 🧭 Don’t hoard Azoth – use it wisely for fast travel
  
• 🎒 Upgrade bags early
  
• 📜 Pin only 3 quests – keeps your UI clean
  
• 🧪 Use food buffs for gathering, XP, & healing
  
• 📈 Monitor trade posts for profit on raw mats or crafted gear
  
• 🎮 Have fun – swap builds, try PvP, explore!

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