ODIN:VALHALLA RISING: Best Alt Leveling Methods Compared

The fastest way to level alternate characters in ODIN:VALHALLA RISING is to equip transferred high-tier gear from your main character and rush the Main Story Quest (MSQ) exclusively. Skipping regional sub-quests eliminates travel delays and lets your alt reach milestone summon rewards quickly. Once progression slows against high-level story bosses, transition that alt into daily timed runs in the Underground Prison.

Preparing an Alt Before Questing

To minimize kill times in early zones, establish your alt's baseline power before leaving the first settlement:

• Deposit Gear in Shared Storage: Place weapons, armor, and accessories into the account chest. Matching your alt's class to your main character allows you to transfer your primary weapon directly. If you choose an off-class alt, you can still transfer universal armor, accessories, and runes.
• Inherit Account Passives: Your alt automatically shares your account-wide Item Collection codex, Mounts, Avatars, and Rune bonuses. This base Combat Power (CP) allows a level 1 alt to eliminate standard Midgard monsters in one or two hits.
• Stockpile Consumables: Transfer health potions, buff food, and haste scrolls through the shared chest to sustain maximum movement speed and attack speed throughout the run.

Main Story Quest Rush vs. Sub-Quest Clearing

Two primary leveling paths exist during the leveling campaign: sprinting the main story or completing every local sub-quest alongside it.

Pure Main Story Quest Rushing

This method focuses solely on golden story objectives, ignoring blue side quests, green sub-quests, and village mission boards.

Because main quests reward large, fixed sums of experience rather than relying on monster kill EXP, your alt levels rapidly through Midgard and into Jotunheim. High transferred CP allows you to defeat story bosses without intermediate grinding. The limitation of pure story rushing is an eventual accuracy deficit. When enemy levels outpace your alt's base level in late Jotunheim or early Nidavellir, attacks will begin to miss. However, by the time you reach this wall, you will have already secured the milestone summon tickets awarded at levels 40 and 50.

Full Sub-Quest Clearing

This route requires picking up every side task and gathering objective in nearby hubs while tracking main story targets.

While clearing every side task results in a slightly higher base level before entering new zones, it significantly increases completion time. Early sub-quests award negligible gold and low amounts of experience that do not scale well into the mid-game. The time spent traveling between side NPCs is generally better spent pushing main story chapters on a second character or farming elite dungeons.

The Recommended Approach: MSQ into Underground Prison

The optimal route combines pure story rushing with dungeon farming. Sprint the main storyline until you reach a zone where enemy level disparities cause your attacks to miss consistently. At that point, stop story progression and redirect the alt's daily playtime:

1. Swap to Accuracy Gear: Replace accessory slots with gear providing raw Accuracy and Hit stats to help bridge the level gap on stubborn story encounters.
2. Transfer High-Grade Runes: Move completed offensive and defensive rune pages from your main character to mitigate incoming boss damage.
3. Farm the Underground Prison: Spend your alt's daily and weekly dungeon tickets on the highest safe floor of the Underground Prison. The monster density yields superior EXP compared to open-world grinding, along with skill books, enhancement stones, and unbound loot.
4. Cycle the Alt (Optional): If your primary goal is collecting milestone summon rewards, claim the avatar and mount tickets at level 50 or 60, bank all tradable items into shared storage, delete the character, and repeat the main quest sprint once the deletion timer expires.