Experience Points

“

One step closer to level bazillionty! — Salvador

”

The more you level up, the more you become stronger!

Experience points (also exp or XP) are the primary reward for undertaking adventures in Borderlands. Every character starts with 0 experience points and at level 1. Completing missions and killing hostile creatures results in experience points awarded to all of the characters present in the group. Completing achievements or challenges will also increase exp.

Experience points can be gained during the course of the game, and can only be lost by exiting the game without saving. Should an unsaved exit occur, the experience total will be reverted to the most recent game save.

Levels (Experience Table)

In Borderlands, Borderlands 2, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, and Borderlands 3, the amount of experience necessary to reach level x equals $\lceil{60x^{2.8} - 60}\rceil$. In Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, the amount of experience necessary to reach level x equals $\lceil{65x^{2.8} - 65}\rceil$ (though rounding/precision errors may end up giving results off by 1, depending on the calculator -- use four-byte floats rather than eight-byte doubles for the best results!).

Once the experience is gained, the character will undergo an automatic increase in level, and the words "Level Up" will overlay the screen. At this point, health and shield capacity are filled to their new maximum, and the action skill's cooldown is completed. In addition, downed Vault Hunters will automatically gain a Second Wind.

Increasing in level will automatically increase the character's health and melee damage. In Borderlands and Borderlands 2, every level from 5 onward grants the character one skill point, resulting in 46 skill points at level 50, 54 at level 58, and 65 at level 69. In Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, characters start accumulating skill points at level 3, resulting in 48 skill points at level 50, 58 points at level 60, and 68 at level 70. In Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, characters start accumulating skill points at level 2, with bonus skill points given at level 20 (+1 extra), level 40 (+2 extra), and when the second class is unlocked as part of the plot (+2 extra), resulting in 44 total points (42 from levelling, 2 from plot mission).

In Borderlands the character can also acquire one free skill point in each of the two playthroughs from Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot and Claptrap's New Robot Revolution, meaning a character can accumulate up to 69 skill points.

Experience table (BL2)

Level	XP required	Skill points
1	0	0
2	358	0
3	1,241	0
4	2,850	0
5	5,376	1
6	8,997	2
7	13,886	3
8	20,208	4
9	28,126	5
10	37,798	6
11	49,377	7
12	63,016	8
13	78,861	9
14	97,061	10
15	117,757	11
16	141,092	12
17	167,206	13
18	196,238	14
19	228,322	15
20	263,595	16
21	302,190	17
22	344,238	18
23	389,873	19
24	439,222	20
25	492,414	21
26	549,578	22
27	610,840	23
28	676,325	24
29	746,158	25
30	820,463	26
31	899,363	27
32	982,980	28
33	1,071,435	29
34	1,164,850	30
35	1,263,343	31
36	1,367,034	32
37	1,476,041	33
38	1,590,483	34
39	1,710,476	35
40	1,836,137	36
41	1,967,582	37
42	2,104,926	38
43	2,248,285	39
44	2,397,772	40
45	2,553,501	41
46	2,715,586	42
47	2,884,139	43
48	3,059,273	44
49	3,241,098	45
50	3,429,728	46
51	3,625,271	47
52	3,827,840	48
53	4,037,543	49
54	4,254,491	50
55	4,478,792	51
56	4,710,556	52
57	4,949,890	53
58	5,196,902	54
59	5,451,701	55
60	5,714,393	56
61	5,985,086	57
62	6,263,885	58
63	6,550,897	59
64	6,846,227	60
65	7,149,982	61
66	7,462,266	62
67	7,783,184	63
68	8,112,840	64
69	8,451,340	65
70	8,798,786	66
71	9,155,282	67
72	9,520,932	68
73	9,895,840	69
74	10,280,105	70
75	10,673,832	71
76	11,077,123	72
77	11,490,079	73
78	11,912,803	74
79	12,345,396	75
80	12,787,958	76

Experience table (Wonderlands)

Level	XP required	Skill points
1	0	0
2	388	1
3	1,344	2
4	3,087	3
5	5,824	4
6	9,746	5
7	15,042	6
8	21,892	7
9	30,470	8
10	40,947	9
11	53,492	10
12	68,266	11
13	85,433	12
14	105,149	13
15	127,570	14
16	152,850	15
17	181,140	16
18	212,590	17
19	247,348	18
20	285,561	20
21	327,372	21
22	372,925	22
23	422,362	23
24	475,823	24
25	533,448	25
26	595,376	26
27	661,743	27
28	732,685	28
29	808,338	29
30	888,835	30
31	974,310	31
32	1,064,895	32
33	1,160,721	33
34	1,261,920	34
35	1,368,621	35
36	1,480,953	36
37	1,599,044	37
38	1,723,023	38
39	1,853,015	39
40	1,989,148	42

Maximum Levels

Borderlands

• Base Game limit (non-Game Of The Year editions without patches): 50
• With patch 1.4.1: 58
• With patch 1.4.1 and The Secret Armory of General Knoxx: 69

Borderlands 2

• Base Game: 50
• With Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode DLC: 61
• With Digistruct Peak Challenge DLC: 72
• With Commander Lilith & the Fight for Sanctuary DLC: 80

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

• Base Game: 50
• With The Holodome Onslaught DLC: 60
• With Claptastic Voyage DLC: 70

Borderlands 3

• Base Game: 50
• With Broken Hearts Day update: 53
• With update coinciding with Guns, Love, and Tentacles DLC: 57
• With update coinciding with Bounty of Blood DLC: 60
• With update coinciding with Psycho Krieg and the Fantastic Fustercluck DLC: 65
• With June 24, 2021 update: 72

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands

Base Game: 40

Wonderlands Myth Rank Levels Experience Calculation

In Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, the amount of experience necessary to reach Myth Rank level x equals $\lceil{(60(40 + x)^{2.3}) - (60(40 + 1)^{2.3}) }\rceil$ (though rounding/precision errors may end up giving results off by a small percentage).

This formula can also be simplified to$\lceil{(60(40 + x)^{2.3}) - 307294}\rceil$.