What is your loadout/tactic for gaining EXP for the battlepass?

There are many approaches to gaining as much score as possible.

Kills definitely give the most EXP overall but they also have the greatest risk because people... fight back XD.

Capturing the objective is the other "EXP bomb" but it is not always reliable because again, the other team also wants the objective for themselves.

Other than that, the other great source of EXP for those who like playing that way, is supporting the rest of the team:

Reviving, Healing, Repairing, Spotting, Disrupting, Smokescreen.

Because these are more of a support to your team than an attack to the enemy team, there is a greater chance off success when doing these activities.

Do not get me wrong, the top players will definitely get the most score possible by just killing others, Like this super aggressive player who kept diving our spawn all round with their 12 auto:

Edit: Yes this player was just a legitimately great FPS player that I fought for several rounds. You see he also paid a high price in deaths for that kill-count. Now, please nobody say again that infantry cannot go 100+. It is all about the skill discrepancy in the server + enemy density.

But you can still score really high even if you are not slaughtering the enemy.

This was my best score for using TUGs + the Blasco Insertion beacon + killing when needed + reviving when needed

Both of these were from Redacted, 32vs32 Breakthrough in the official AoW servers.

I also tried focusing on reviving and healing a lot as Falk, but the score you gain pales in comparison with the score from assisting others as a Recon.

On that note: @ DICE , I recommend increasing the points for reviving/healing others, players just do not do this often enough and extra EXP would be a good incentive.

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14 Replies

RanzigeRidder2
Legend
3 years ago
@UP_Hawxxeye And with Blasco you can maximize the XP farm by smart placement (similar to the T-UGS and Infiltratoin Device) of the Spawn beacon, providing you 3 methods of passive XP gain.
Another great way to get passive XP (especially on Redacted) is play Irish and deploy the trophy system at chokepoints in combination with a ammo or medic crate.
ElliotLH
Hero+
3 years ago
My tactics vary depending on map, gamemode, and what I feel like doing. However, prior to S6 I'd usually pick Angel or Falck and farm points with resupplies and revives, but Blasco with TUGS and a pokeball are what I've been using on Redacted (thanks to Ironhead841's suggestion).

I definitely died a lot more than I killed over the weekend but was still high up on the board.
UP_Hawxxeye
Legend
3 years ago
@ElliotLH
What makes you prefer the pokeball over the TUGs?
Perhaps I am behind the news but I am still thinking of the super nerfed pokeball of the past. Did they buffed its duration and capacity?

Cause they have also done that stealth change that makes the gadgets resupply slower than before
ElliotLH
Hero+
3 years ago
@UP_Hawxxeye I'm using both at the moment, although I might change back to incendiary grenades due to Dozer.
RayD_O1
Hero
3 years ago
@UP_Hawxxeye
I tend to just drive forward with my squad capping flags and throwing ammo packs / med boxes and reviving, playing as Angel.

Always equipped with my trusty M416.
UP_Hawxxeye
Legend
3 years ago
@ElliotLH
Sadly the interaction they added that makes the smoke grenades extinguish the incendiary fires means that Dozer is really safe inside the constant smoke spam.
I believe that the incendiary grenades need some buff to counterbalance the fact that they can be extinguished so easily with the most popular grenade amongst intelligent players.
Alternatively since they opened the Pandora's box of grenade interactions , they might as well also make it so that the explosions from frags, C5 etc are now able to disperse the smoke early. Cause right now, the Smoke nade is rock, the incendiary is scissors but there is no paper to complete the set.
ElliotLH
Hero+
3 years ago
@UP_Hawxxeye Good point, I forgot about that, and I may a well stick to the spot grenades for the time being in that case.

I quite like your suggestion of explosives dispersing the smoke too.
RMEChief
Legend
3 years ago
This is a great example of just how bad the scoreboard really is (or how fake it is). The weights mean nothing, and even though a player higher up on the scoreboard is going to more than likely have more XP than a lower player, that doesn't mean it is accurate or correlates in any meaningful way.
For straight-up XP, I have found maxing the ribbons (3x per) is the best way to get max XP. Obviously, recon gets the Intel ribbon quickly, Support is the only one that can get Logistics, and gets Wingman pretty quick with some combat. So if you start with Irish or Falck and play aggressively, you can have objective, wingman, logistics, and combat completed, then switch to recon to complete intel (which should be partially done already).
UP_Plumber
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@UP_Hawxxeye Mama Falck with ammo box, smoke grenades and sweatiest weapon of your choice tends to work pretty well for me.

Not only you're an unstoppable force with infinite ammo, health, and smoke nades, but you also revive and resupply EVERYONE in your team along the way.

This paired with my natural tendency to jump head first into action tends to generate large amounts of points for me. I usually end up with x2 the points of the person on 2nd place.

Playing recon isn't really my style so I can't comment on that. Although I remember back when we had Breakthrough 128 for a limited time, I decided to farm T1 Recon badge with Casper's drone. Ended up with ALOT of XP on 1st place with 0 kills. That was hilarious
AngrySquid270
3 years ago
I have about 500hr in the game and pretty sure I have the default cosmetics for everything, including the 'New 'gun on the block' player card. Battle Pass isn't something I pay much attention to.
That said I usually do pretty well on the scoreboard/EXP by dropping spawn beacons outside objectives and charge in over and over until I get the flag or lose the beacon.