Discover the best XP farms in Borderlands 4 to level up quickly and dominate your enemies. These efficient locations will help you maximize your experience points and gear up faster than ever.
Top Borderlands 4 XP Farms for Quick Leveling
Welcome to Borderlands 4! This game is huge, filled with open-world adventures, side quests, and countless activities. But grinding through all those quests just to level up? Boring! That’s where the real fun begins with XP farms. If you want to level up fast and get to the good stuff without too much hassle, you’re in the right place!
First off, if this is your first playthrough, just focus on the story and explore the world a bit. You don’t need to grind just yet. However, since the max level is now 50 and you can only skip to level 30 initially, you’ll have a long way to go for your other characters. Let’s dive into the best ways to snag that sweet XP!
🔥 Top XP Farms in Borderlands 4
For fast XP, check out these two fire ways to rack up experience: bounty contracts and grind drill site activities. The drill site activities especially give you a massive boost when you’ve got your crew with you. Plus, they drop loads of cash and loot! Think legendary gear and a good stash of cash to blow in vending machines nearby.
Bounty Contracts
Let’s talk bounty contracts. These are gold, especially the Vile ones you unlock in Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode. You can finish them off quickly with a solid character build. The best spot to farm these is at the Makeshift Chalet safehouse in the Carcadia Burn area, which is located in the Lopside region. It’s compact, so you won’t waste time traveling between bounties.
Here’s how it works: take any bounty contracts from the board at the safehouse, complete them, then save and quit to refresh the board. Easy XP grind, right? Rinse and repeat for max rewards!
Drill Sites
Next up, we have drill sites, which are chaotic and super rewarding. You’ll face waves of enemies and finish off with a boss fight. After clearing a site, use Moxxi’s Big Encore machine to reset the area instantly and dive back in for more XP! It can’t compete with the Vile bounty contracts if you’re solo, but it’s a whole different story in co-op.
XP shares among your team, so team up to tackle multiple drill sites at once for massive XP gains. The best locations are The Pitted Stain and The Prospects, both near the Someday Rise safehouse in the Fatefields. Grab some friends and hit these spots—it’ll speed up your leveling like you wouldn’t believe!
So there you have it! With these XP farms, you can spend less time grinding and more time enjoying the best parts of Borderlands 4. Happy looting and shooting, Vault Hunter!
Game Information Box
Title: Borderlands 4
Developer: Gearbox Software
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
Retail Price: Estimated $59.99
Release Date: Expected in 2024
Where to Buy: Available for pre-order on platforms like Steam, PlayStation Store, and Xbox Store.
Switching to an open world, Borderlands 4 is massive and packed full of sidequests and activities to complete, though these generally don’t give you tons of experience to level up. Completing it all once is all well and good, but you won’t want to trudge through every single quest again on an alternate character. That’s where the best XP farms come in, netting you heaps of experience to level up fast and with less effort, so you can focus on your favourite bits.
If it’s your first run through the campaign, I’d generally recommend just completing the story and exploring the open world—there’s little reason to grind before then. Nevertheless, with the max level currently set to 50, and the campaign tier skip only taking you to level 30, you’ll have a long way to go when levelling up alternate characters.
Best Borderlands 4 XP farms
The two best ways to farm XP in Borderlands 4 are to complete bounty contracts and grind drill site activities, with the latter being even better when you’re playing in co-op. Both options also give you tons of money and loot (there are vending machines to sell items nearby, too), including unique legendary gear, so you’ll be getting more than just XP.
Bounty contracts
Bounty contracts, especially the Vile versions you’ll unlock in Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode, give you massive amounts of XP upon completion, and they can generally be completed very quickly if you’ve got a half-decent build. The best place to farm these is from the Makeshift Chalet safehouse on the western edge of Carcardia Burn in a region called Lopside. Since this location is so small, the bounties tend to spawn nearby, cutting down the travel between locations compared to other regions—though you can technically do it anywhere if you’re not a fan of Carcadia Burn’s drab desert vibes.
Just pick up any bounty contracts from the safehouse board (Vile or not), complete them, and then save and quit to refresh the board’s offerings. Rinse and repeat.
Drill sites
Spawning hordes of enemies and finishing off with a boss fight, drill sites hand out XP by the dozen. Once you’ve beaten a drill site, just use Moxxi’s Big Encore machine to instantly reset the area and do it all over again. While it’s not quite as effective as Vile bounty contracts if you’re playing solo, it’s broken when you’re playing in co-op.
Since XP is shared among your party, you can have players split up to complete multiple drill site activities at once, multiplying your XP gains. The best news is that there are two drill sites, The Pitted Stain and The Prospects, near the Someday Rise safehouse in the centre of the Fatefields. Of course, even this method will take you a few hours, but grabbing your friends to take on the mines will go a long way.
Feel free to share your own tips, tricks, or favorite cheat codes for leveling up faster in Borderlands 4 in the comments below!
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By David Smith 
