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Leveling
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There are many things that could be noted here, but I'll try to be concise and right to the point. In general, there are 3 main strategies that have been commonly used in the server with various variations of them coming in between. I'll cover each of them briefly and I'll suggestions.
I) "Power Leveling" - (Skill Level Requirements for FAST leveling: LOW)
This is the most basic one and it's also the easiest to do. In general, just don't buy any weapons (barring pistols) and just tome. You can buy up to 2 tomes until level 5, so spend them as soon and as fast as possible. After level 5, you can buy up to 5, so I would highly recommend saving the money and buying 5 at a time, because that way the last 2 tomes cost only a 1000 instead of 3500. Easy to do and fast to level, although may not be quite as fun and normally will lead to bad scores. Can be used on races you really dislike playing or you are bad at.
II) "Basic Leveling" - (Skill Level Requirements for FAST leveling: MEDIUM)
Slight changes to this strategy as you still buy weapons besides the tomes, BUT you only buy shopmenu items if you are maxed on tomes and you have money left over. Sometimes includes buying JUST the lace as the only item. Apart from these changes, use most of the same strategies from basic leveling. The main difference that this also gets you kills and helps you keep scores.
III) "Finesse Leveling" - (Skill Level Requirements for FAST leveling: VERY HIGH)
With this strategy, you only buy tomes if you have a weapon and full set of items. Kills can give you more experience than tomes, especially if done on high level players - the problem is you actually have to kill them. If you are good at CS in general, but still struggling a bit at WCS, this may be for you, but I would only recommend this for very solid players. This can be the fastest way to level up all races, but it is also the most difficult.
Advanced techniques (To be covered)
Changes when Leveling High level races
The key here is to understand that the higher level the race, the closer it is to its potential. This generally means that you may more so concentrate on weapons and items rather than tomes, unless you really dislike the race and just want to get it done as soon as possible. In general, though, you can easily get more experience in the longer run with better scores rather than just tome it.
Changes when Leveling Strong races
Some races, such as jack, human, molecule, etc. are quite strong even at comparatively lower levels, thus you may want to focus on weapons and items here as well as not only you'll have better scores, but you'll also gain A LOT of experience for kills.
Off-Race leveling
Not exactly the most common, but sometimes due to either the race being very boring for that person or due it being restricted, its still possible to level it. Save up 15k, change to that race after dying or after round, type "tome5" and then just switch back to whatever race you've been playing before.
Leveling on Winning/Stacked team
This generally means that you are on a strong, winning team which will make it easier for you to get kills and money. What this means that again you may want to deviate your strategy and focus more so and getting those kills and items rather than just buying tomes.
Leveling Against Winning/Stacked team
This is generally a very difficult season and not an uncommon one either. While items get really cheap after enough losses, it may be difficult to get the kills, especially if the other team is whoring strong races, which means that you may want to skip all weapons but pistols (you'll tend to find a fair amount of them on the floor) and items as well and just concentrate on tomes (unless it's vagas who are destroying your team - then a lace is a very good idea).
Leveling against High Level players
This can be somewhat subjective and player dependent - some people will tend to somewhat chill when they max out, while others will whore races like there's no tomorrow as they think they've earnt the right. Whatever happens, they tend to give A LOT of experience, so it tends to be a good idea to learn who are these players and what their skill level is. Whether Spasm will be playing, human, molecule, jack or beast, he'll still be very difficult to kill, so against players like him, toming up is the right idea whereas some other higher level player, while still good, are nowhere near the level of Spasm, so others (Rev. Maynard is one example) may be easier to kill and you may want to concentrate on these players as one kill a lot of times tends to represent 3 tomes or more.
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