Outriders – The Fastest Way To Level World Tiers Plus How To Farm XP Easily

In Outriders there isn’t your regular difficulty system like easy, medium and hard – Outriders has World Tiers. The higher the World Tier, then the more difficult the enemies are, but crucially, the more rewarding the loot is. Today I am going to look at World Tiers and how you can increase your World Tier quickly, so you’ll reach max World Tier Level nice and fast to get those Legendary rewards at later World Tiers. The following is a guide for the fastest way to level world tiers plus how to farm XP easily.

In the guide today I am going to go through the farming method for quick and easy World Tier levelling, then I’ll go into some detail about World Tiers, but feel free to use the timestamps and check out the information that is relevent to you.

Why Raise World Tier

You’ll naturally raise the World Tier throughout the campaign, but there will come a point where things get very diffiult and you’ll most likley want to stick to one World Tier or even lower it a little bit, especially at the back end of the game when you fight some of the more obnoxious boss battles.

There is a benefit to raising the World Tier as high as you can because starting at Level 12 and above you will get Legendary rewards each time to raise a level up to World Tier 15. The loot drops in the game will be more rewarding too, so getting to those higher World Tiers quickly will mean getting your hands on some of the best loot in the game, which is going to make going through missions, side quests and expeditions much easier. By raising the World Tier you’ll get plenty of Epic drops which you can gather and breakdown for the valuable mods, which in turn you can slot into builds.

How to raise the World Tier easily and quickly

There are a couple of places in Outriders where you can raise the World Tier. The easiest method I have found is one of the story missions early on in the game in The First City called ‘Reach the other side of the river’. To get to this you’ll have to have completed the story missions up until this point and then from the lobby screen you can select this story mission.

The reason this story mission is good because the enemies are small and easy to kill, and the first two parts of the mission are not very challenging even at higher World Tiers and therefore this mission can be done quickly and easily. Each time you run through the mission you’ll raise your World Tier a little bit more and you simply have to repeat the process to raise your World Tier as high as possible.

There are some chests in this mission too, a couple in the first area and then a couple in the second area where you fight the mini boss. I got into a rhythmn of not getting these chests and relying on epic drops from enemies rather than chests, but at higher World Tiers you are more likely to get epic drops from the chests too, so you can pick up these chests if you want to.

My tactic for doing this fast was to run through the first area and then wait for the small enemies to bunch up together and then I would take them out with an abiility killing tens in one swoop. You can then take out the remaining enemies easily with a shotgun. The important thing to note is not to die, as this is going to penalise you in terms of gaining World Tiers. You want to kill enemies, get XP and raise that World Tier as fast as you can and dying is going to set you back on progress. It should be fairly easy to stay alive, and you can try out crowd control mods. I had a combination of a shotgun, which would detonate enemies within a 5m proximity and this really helped for clearing out whole load of enemies nice and fast.

Once you have killed everything you can go back to the lobby and select the story mission again from the menu and then jump back in. I think a quicker way of doing this is to leave one enemy alive at the end and then quit back to the lobby and then select continue, and this should restart you back in the level.

I didn’t continue to the third area because here there’s human enemies with guns, and it’s going to slow down progress. Through this method I was raising my World Tier about 1 rank every 25 minutes, although I am sure it could be done faster with better mods.

That’s it for the World Tier farming guide, next I am going to look at the World Tiers themselves, the rewards and how the World Tier system works.

What are World Tiers?

World Tiers are a way of increasing the difficulty in the game and in exchange for the higher difficulty you’ll get better rewards. World Tiers aren’t related to a particular location in the game, you’ll start at the lowest World Tier and then rise through the ranks as you gain XP throughout the game.

Each time you unock a new World Tier you’ll increase the item level cap by +1, so by increasing the World Tiers you are going to get more powerful over time. To unlock the next World Tier you’ll need to kill enemies in the highest World Tier available to you. The only way to earn XP is by killing enemies, you don’t get XP for completing missions. Die and you lose progress on your World Tiers, so try not to die if at all possible when you are trying to raise your World Tier.

The maximum World Tier at this time is World Tier 15. On World Tier 15 enemies are 12 levels higher than normal, but the loot is 12 levels higher too and your chances for getting legendary drops and other higher tier weapons are about 5 times higher too.

Here’s the details of each World Tier in Outriders.

World Tier 1: “Story”
Enemy Level: -2
Dropped Item Level: -2
Loot Rarity Modifier: 80%
Legendary Drop Rate Modifier Bonus: +0%
Wearable Item Level Cap: +0
Unlock Reward: None

World Tier 2: “Easy”
Enemy Level: -1
Dropped Item Level: -1
Loot Rarity Modifier: 90%
Legendary Drop Rate Modifier Bonus: +30%
Wearable Item Level Cap: +0
Unlock Reward: Accolade, Scrap

World Tier 3: “Normal”
Enemy Level: +0
Dropped Item Level: +0
Loot Rarity Modifier: 100%
Legendary Drop Rate Modifier Bonus: +0%
Wearable Item Level Cap: +0
Unlock Reward: Accolade, Scrap

World Tier 4: “Hard”
Enemy Level: +1
Dropped Item Level: +1
Loot Rarity Modifier: 120%
Legendary Drop Rate Modifier Bonus: +130%
Wearable Item Level Cap: +1
Unlock Reward: Accolade, Unusual Weapon

World Tier 5: “Expert”
Enemy Level: +2
Dropped Item Level: +2
Loot Rarity Modifier: 140%
Legendary Drop Rate Modifier Bonus: +215%
Wearable Item Level Cap: +2
Unlock Reward: Accolade, Rare Weapon

World Tier 6: “Master”
Enemy Level: +3
Dropped Item Level: +3
Loot Rarity Modifier: 160%
Legendary Drop Rate Modifier Bonus: +285%
Wearable Item Level Cap: +3
Unlock Reward: Accolade, Rare Weapon

World Tier 7: “Legend”
Enemy Level: +4
Dropped Item Level: +4
Loot Rarity Modifier: 180%
Legendary Drop Rate Modifier Bonus: +300%
Wearable Item Level Cap: +4
Unlock Reward: Accolade, Iron

World Tier 8: “Immortal”
Enemy Level: +5
Dropped Item Level: +5
Loot Rarity Modifier: 200%
Legendary Drop Rate Modifier Bonus: +315%
Wearable Item Level Cap: +5
Unlock Reward: Accolade, Rare Weapon

World Tier 9: “Frantic”
Enemy Level: +6
Dropped Item Level: +6
Loot Rarity Modifier: 225%
Legendary Drop Rate Modifier Bonus: +330%
Wearable Item Level Cap: +6
Unlock Reward: Accolade, Iron

World Tier 10: “Impossible”
Enemy Level: +7
Dropped Item Level: +7
Loot Rarity Modifier: 250%
Legendary Drop Rate Modifier Bonus: +345%
Wearable Item Level Cap: +7
Unlock Reward: Accolade, Epic Weapon

World Tier 11: “Inferno”
Enemy Level: +8
Dropped Item Level: +8
Loot Rarity Modifier: 300%
Legendary Drop Rate Modifier Bonus: +360%
Wearable Item Level Cap: +8
Unlock Reward: Accolade, Titanium

World Tier 12: “Torment”
Enemy Level: +9
Dropped Item Level: +9
Loot Rarity Modifier: 350%
Legendary Drop Rate Modifier Bonus: +375%
Wearable Item Level Cap: +9
Unlock Reward: Accolade, Legendary Weapon, Titanium

World Tier 13: “Nightmare”
Enemy Level: +10
Dropped Item Level: +10
Loot Rarity Modifier: 400%
Legendary Drop Rate Modifier Bonus: +390%
Wearable Item Level Cap: +10
Unlock Reward: Accolade, Titanium

World Tier 14: “Insanity”
Enemy Level: +11
Dropped Item Level: +11
Loot Rarity Modifier: 450%
Legendary Drop Rate Modifier Bonus: +405%
Wearable Item Level Cap: +11
Unlock Reward: Accolade, Epic Weapon

World Tier 15: “Madness”
Enemy Level: +12
Dropped Item Level: +12
Loot Rarity Modifier: 500%
Legendary Drop Rate Modifier Bonus: +425%
Wearable Item Level Cap: +12
Unlock Reward: Accolade, Legendary Weapon, Titanium

Let me know down in the comments your World Tier farming methods and share them with the community.

That’s it for this guide for the fastest way to level world tiers plus how to farm XP easily.