Powerlevel

Quick meaning: Powerlevel is a verb meaning (intransitive, video games, slang) To play so as to advance levels in a game as quickly as possible.

Meaning

(intransitive, video games, slang) To play so as to advance levels in a game as quickly as possible.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, video games, slang) To cause (a game character or another player) to advance levels in a game as quickly as possible.

Example Sentences

MMORPGs with experience of point and level system are susceptible to ‘powerlevelling’ and ‘grinding’, which are terms relating to the highly goal-oriented, repetitive play style aimed to make the character more powerful as quickly as possible.

Fourthly, powerleveling is a key issue in which the moral order of the game is contested. For instance, when powerleveling, lower level players advance swiftly through 60 levels because higher level players accompany them, making quest completions much easier.

Trying to explore the Garden of Madness when you first enter it can be deadly if you haven’t been powerlevelling. […] The best way to powerlevel is usually to go find something big and dangerous, like a Stolas or a Final Guard, and pick on it until you level up.

Whilst fighting close to your mentor (who must be around 5 levels higher than you) your attack and defense ratings are boosted - temporarily making you of a similar level. XP is still proportionate to your “real” level though, so don’t expect to be able to powerlevel this way.

Word Forms

• powerlevels
• powerleveling
• powerlevelling
• powerleveled
• powerlevelled
• power-level

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