Leveling Guide
Welcome to DAoC's guide to leveling. This guide will walk you through creating your character, reaching level 50, and additional level requirements such as Master Level and Champion Levels.
Creating Your Character
DAoC has a vast amount of characters in each realm. Please browse our realm, stats, and class types page for help with deciding what realm and class to play. Once decided, log your character in.
Tutorial Zone - Level 1 to 10
When you first log in to Dark Age of Camelot, you'll enter the tutorial zone. This zone helps you get to know your character, the interface, and other commands. The videos below run through the tutorial zone on each realm including quests available, locations, training your character, and NPCs.
Select your realm:
Level 10 and Onwards
Once you exit the tutorial zone, you have a choice on different ways to level. If you prefer questing and exploring the world, you can level through the mainland quests and monsters. If you like to add a little RvR and risk to your leveling, the Battlegrounds offer high experience, bounty points (which allow you to buy gear and items), coin, and realm points (which allow you to purchase additional class abilites both passive and active).
Leveling through each Battleground is fast and easy, as all Battlegrounds follow the same quest format, although the level 1-4 Battleground does not have quests due to the speed of leveling from 1 to 4. Battlegrounds are split per levels as follows:
You can enter the appropriate Battleground (BG) for your level through any porter across the realm. Once zoned in, you'll find yourself in the Portal Keep (PK) where other players gather and the BG NPCs (Non Player Character) are located. NPCs available depend on the BG and map type, i.e. a map with water areas includes a water breath giving NPC which allows you to swim faster and breathe underwater. Battlegrounds also have one central keep (CK) that players can attack and claim ownership for their realm.
Players can gain experience by speaking with the Captain NPC and obtaining the three quests offered. Once completed and turned in, these quests offer coin, large experience, and bounty points. Bounty points are an additional currency type that allow you to buy gear and, at higher levels, experience for leveling and champion levels.
Killing other players within the Battlegrounds reward you with coin, experience, bounty points, and realm points. Realm points allow you to train in passive and active abilities for your character useable in RvR. Players can speak with the Commander in the PK's to obtain a RvR quest to kill a required amount of enemies from each realm for additional rewards.
Types of NPCs located in the BGs include:
Our walkthrough for each Battlegrounds can be found via this link.
Our walkthrough for mainland questing can be found here for Albion, here for Hibernia, and here for Midgard.
