Tips For Weapons Leveling

Leveling up your weapons is necessary if you wish to bring out their full potential in the Modern Warfare’s multiplayer or in Warzone. Both cosmetics and mechanical upgrades become available on reaching certain level thresholds, allowing you to customize your guns to fit both your playstyle and aesthetic taste. The gameplay impact of the right attachment loadout can be dramatic, turning a mediocre handgun or rifle into a spectacularly lethal instrument that is ideal for its battlefield role. There are several things to keep in mind as you plan to power level your favorite weapons.

Seize Opportunities

The main source of weapon XP in the game is killing enemies with the weapon you’re hoping to level up. If your main goal is to level up a weapon as quickly as possible, you should almost always make finishing your targets a priority rather than playing to win. You have to keep your eyes open for “cheap” XP opportunities, such as distracted or exposed opponents. If you are hoping to level a heavy weapon like a launcher, you will want to look out for groups of enemies in enclosed spaces.

You should also be on the lookout for critical opportunities beyond actual combat. Double Weapon XP tokens, which may be bought as part of season passes or unlocked at no cost through occasional challenges, can let you activate a period of increased XP gain for all your guns or melee weapons. The recurring double XP weekends work the same way, but don’t stack with the tokens. Make sure not to waste either of those opportunities and get as many kills as possible when their effects are active. Note that you can use both Modern Warfare and Cold War tokens to accelerate your leveling in a battle royale.

Speaking of the latter, you may also want to look for Contracts if you are a free player or prefer to progress through Warzone. Contracts are bonus objectives with rewards including XP for the weapon you are holding at the time of their completion. They may require you to secure an object or kill a specific opponent without being killed yourself. Provided you can complete several Contracts in a match, it can be a very worthwhile method of leveling up, especially if you use every chance to score additional kills along the way. It might be more viable if you are playing in a Duo or Trio and have reliable allies watching your back.

Know Your Goals

Planning ahead is critical if you are to level up efficiently. It may also help you kill two birds with one stone as you pursue other goals. Each weapon has its own track for unlocking attachments and cosmetics like reticles or camos. You should look at the level requirements for attachments in advance so you could switch to the optimal loadouts for your weapon as soon as they become available. For instance, it is a good idea to get the Stippled Grip Tape for your assault rifle to play to its strengths as a highly agile weapon or get a Tac Laser for your marksman rifle to raise aim-down-sight accuracy. Timely upgrades like that will make the rest of the climb much smoother by reducing your time-to-kill.

Obtaining cosmetics requires reaching a level and then completing a challenge, which usually involves inflicting kills under specific conditions. Those challenges may be completed simultaneously with leveling your weapon further. If you are after a specific reticle or camo, it would be a good idea to tailor your strategy and your tactics around their requirements, as unlocking them would take much longer otherwise. As an example, you might want to avoid leveling your sniper rifles without also progressing in the sniper reticle challenge, as there are few other weapons that can use them. While such items aren’t supposed to have gameplay effects, you may still find it easier to aim with certain reticles or get more attention with specific camos, which may indirectly affect the rate of your advancement.

Choose Target-Rich Modes and Maps

While you might get lucky and rack up a lot of kills on any map, some of them make the process quicker and more reliable than do others. The general rule is to seek smaller maps, where you will not have to spend a lot of time trying to chase down targets and can maximize your kills per minute. Shipment and Shoot House in particular encourage rapid, close-quarters gunfights, which are especially useful for leveling up the likes of shotguns and SMGs. Longer-range weapons may benefit more from Rust, which is also small but offers more opportunities for sniping.

Objective-based modes like Domination or Hardpoint are ideal because they encourage enemies to come to you, allowing you to set up a kill zone and effectively farm weapon XP. The twenty-player version of Domination is particularly handy for those purposes since you will definitely not lack targets there. In Warzone, your best option would be playing in Plunder mode because of its easy respawning, though even on Rebirth Island you may need to do a lot of legwork to advance. Trios might offer some advantages if your teammates are on board with an aggressive approach, but otherwise playing Solo might be more efficient as you will not have to compete for kills.

Pick Safe Tactics and Loadouts

The basic difficulty in leveling a weapon comes from the fact that you are, by definition, underdeveloped while you’re doing it. A gun that does not yet have access to its best loadout runs the risk of being severely outmatched by the opposition in a head-on confrontation. You will want to play it safe and use cunning tactics to even the odds, especially at lower levels.

Your best approach early on will usually be to stay on the defense and cover narrow but critical routes that enemies can’t easily avoid. Special equipment like Claymores or Gas Grenades can help you control all approaches and weaken your enemies before you go in for the kill. The Deployable Cover Field Upgrade can be of big help if you can’t get a natural defensive position. If you take cover behind a barrier, you can mount your gun on its surface, reducing spread while making it more difficult for your targets to shoot back. This trick is most useful when operating unwieldy weapons like light machine guns.

Stealthy ambushes can be another viable tactic, though they are obviously riskier and require more skill, or coaching, to get right. Still, they can be rewarding, particularly on busier maps where enemies are likelier to become distracted by drawn-out firefights, allowing them to be outflanked. Perks like Ghost or Cold-Blooded will help you evade notice and gun down foes who won’t see you coming. This method becomes more viable after you have reached the milestone that unlocks suppressors.

Conclusion

The weapon leveling system all but guarantees that you will be able to improve the weapons you rely on the most simply by playing the matches according to your preferences. That being said, some guns require that you put in the effort to level them up before they can truly come into their own. Although grinding kills may not be everyone’s idea of fun, following those tips and keeping your weapon’s strengths and weaknesses in mind should let you get it over with quickly and return to enjoying the game.