Experience Points

The Basics

What are Experience Points?

Experience points (also known as 'exp' or 'XP') are a numerical representation of the progress made towards a characters job level. Once you reach the required number of experience (see the first table below) your character will automatically level up.

There are a number of ways to gain experience, some of which are unique to Horizon, and others that may differ slightly from retail due to custom changes. A list of these will be provided in a later section.

Exp Loss and Deleveling

Upon death, your character will lose experience equal to 8% of the total needed to level, capped at a total of 2,400 exp. If this exp loss would take you below 0 for your current level, your character will lose a level.

For example, Player A is level 10, and has 150 out of the 2,600 experience needed to reach level 11. They die, and lose 208 experience. Since this is greater than the amount of experience they have stored towards their next level, they will delevel to level 9, with 58 (208 minus 150) experience needed to re-level to 10.

Note: You will not lose experience upon death at lvl 4 or below.

Limit Breaks and Level Caps

Upon starting the game, you have a maximum level cap of 50. In order to break this cap, there is a series of five quests know as Limit Breaks. Each one completed will raise your level cap by 5. Please see the Limit Breaks page for more details.

Limit Points

Once a player has reached maximum level (75), they can gain an additional 43,999 experience points which will act as a buffer to prevent them from deleveling upon death. After reaching this cap, the player will instead start receiving Limit Points.

You may choose to switch to earning Limit Points before reaching the cap of 43,999 exp by navigating to the main game menu > Status > Merit Points > ??? **Check option names when back on a level 75** Note that doing so with very little buffer can risk you deleveling to 74 upon death.

Every 10,000 LP acquired will grant the player one Merit Point, which can be spent on various upgrades, such as increasing your base stats, or job specific enhancements. Please see the Merit Points page for more details on this.

Limitations of experience points

There are a few limitations to gaining experience points that should be kept in mind.

Firstly, a single source of experience gain cannot cause you to level up more than once. Instead, the player will level up once, and then gain enough experience to be 1 away from leveling up a second time. Any experience above that will be lost.

For example, Player B is level 1 and needs 500 exp to level. They manage to get their hands on an experience scroll that gives them 2,000 experience (which would ordinarily be enough to get them to almost level 4. However, player B would level up to level 2, and then gain 749/750 of the experience towards level 3, leaving them 1 point away from their 2nd level up. Thus they would only have gained a total of 1,249 experience, and the remaining 751 is wasted.

The second restriction is that a single source of experience cannot grant both exp and limit points if it would take you above the cap at level 75. Say you're at level 75 with a buffer of 43,900 exp (out of the maximum of 43,999). You gain 200 experience points. This will put you at the cap of 43,999, using up 99 points of the exp you gained. The remaining 101 is wasted and not converted to limit points.

Experience Points needed per level

Level Experience Total 1 0 0 2 500 500 3 750 1,250 4 1,000 2,250 5 1,250 3,500 6 1,500 5,000 7 1,750 6,750 8 2,000 8,750 9 2,200 10,950 10 2,400 13,350 11 2,600 15,950 12 2,800 18,750 13 3,000 21,750 14 3,200 24,950 15 3,400 28,350 16 3,600 31,950 17 3,800 35,750 18 4,000 39,750 19 4,200 43,950 20 4,400 48,350 21 4,600 52,950 22 4,800 57,750 23 5,000 62,750 24 5,100 67,850 25 5,200 73,050

Level Experience Total 26 5,300 78,350 27 5,400 83,750 28 5,500 89,250 29 5,600 94,850 30 5,700 100,550 31 5,800 106,350 32 5,900 112,250 33 6,000 118,250 34 6,100 124,350 35 6,200 130,550 36 6,300 136,850 37 6,400 143,250 38 6,500 149,750 39 6,600 156,350 40 6,700 163,050 41 6,800 169,850 42 6,900 176,750 43 7,000 183,750 44 7,100 190,850 45 7,200 198,050 46 7,300 205,350 47 7,400 212,750 48 7,500 220,250 49 7,600 227,850 50 7,700 235,550

Level Experience Total 51 7,800 243,350 52 8,000 251,350 53 9,200 260,550 54 10,400 270,950 55 11,600 282,550 56 12,800 295,350 57 14,000 309,350 58 15,200 324,550 59 16,400 340,950 60 17,600 358,550 61 18,800 377,350 62 20,000 397,350 63 21,500 418,850 64 23,000 441,850 65 24,500 466,350 66 26,000 492,350 67 27,500 519,850 68 29,000 548,850 69 30,500 579,350 70 32,000 611,350 71 34,000 645,350 72 36,000 681,350 73 38,000 719,350 74 40,000 759,350 75 42,000 801,350

Gaining Experience Points

Experience Scrolls

An experience scroll is a consumable item that grant an instant, random amount of experience. There are four different types, each with differing minimum and maximum values, and these can be obtained from a number of sources.

monster level - party level	party level
	1-5	6-10	11-20	21-30	31-35	36-40	41-45	46-50	51-55	56-60	61-65	66-70	71-75
15											800
14											720
13											630
12											580
11										580	530
10										530	480
9					600				530	480	440
8	600				550			530	480	430	400
7	550				500			470	430	380	360
6	450							400	370	330	320
5	350				400			340	310	280
4	200				300			270	250	240
3	160				200
2	140				150					160
1	120				125					130
0	100
-1	90				93	96	95		96				97
-2	80				86		90		93				95
-3	70		75		80		85		90				92
-4	65		70		75	76	80		85		86		90
-5	60		65		70	73	76		80		83		86
-6	50		60		65	70	73		76		80		83
-7		40	50	55	60	65	70		73		76	77	80
-8		30	40	50	55	60	65	66	70		73	75	77
-9			30	40	50	55	60	63	66		70	72	75
-10				30	40	50	55	60	63		66	70	72
-11					30	40	50	55	60		63	66	70
-12						30	40	50	55	56	60	63	66
-13							30	40	50	53	56	60	63
-14								30	40	50	53	56	60
-15									30	40	50	53	56
-16										30	40	50	53
-17											30	40	50
-18												30	40
-19													30
-20
-21
-22
-23
-24
-25
	1-5	6-10	11-20	21-30	31-35	36-40	41-45	46-50	51-55	56-60	61-65	66-70	71-75

Check Color Code	Incredibly Tough	Very Tough	Tough	Even Match	Decent Challenge	Easy Prey	Too Weak

Note: Experience point scrolls were buffed on Horizon to give triple the amount of experience compared to retail.