Progression

The level cap in The Blood of Dawnwalker is 50. Level 2 costs 600 experience, and the requirement climbs by a small fixed step each level after that, so the early levels arrive quickly and the last ten take considerably longer.

Levelling grants skill points, usually one per level with a second at certain milestones, and those points are spent at shrines. Quests add another 133 skill points across the game, which is why quest completion is a progression system and not a side activity.

Level	XP for level	Total XP	Skill points	Total points
1	0	0	0	0
2	600	600	1	1
3	640	1,240	1	2
4	680	1,920	1	3
5	720	2,640	2	5
6	760	3,400	1	6
7	800	4,200	1	7
8	840	5,040	1	8
9	880	5,920	1	9
10	920	6,840	2	11
11	960	7,800	1	12
12	1,000	8,800	1	13
13	1,040	9,840	1	14
14	1,080	10,920	1	15
15	1,120	12,040	2	17
16	1,160	13,200	1	18
17	1,200	14,400	1	19
18	1,240	15,640	1	20
19	1,280	16,920	1	21
20	1,320	18,240	2	23
21	1,360	19,600	1	24
22	1,400	21,000	1	25
23	1,440	22,440	1	26
24	1,480	23,920	1	27
25	1,520	25,440	2	29
26	1,560	27,000	1	30
27	1,600	28,600	1	31
28	1,640	30,240	1	32
29	1,680	31,920	1	33
30	1,720	33,640	2	35
31	1,760	35,400	1	36
32	1,800	37,200	1	37
33	1,840	39,040	1	38
34	1,880	40,920	1	39
35	1,920	42,840	2	41
36	1,960	44,800	1	42
37	2,000	46,800	1	43
38	2,040	48,840	1	44
39	2,080	50,920	1	45
40	2,120	53,040	2	47
41	2,160	55,200	1	48
42	2,200	57,400	1	49
43	2,240	59,640	1	50
44	2,280	61,920	1	51
45	2,320	64,240	2	53
46	2,360	66,600	1	54
47	2,400	69,000	1	55
48	2,440	71,440	1	56
49	2,480	73,920	1	57
50	2,520	76,440	2	59

Combat experience is paid by enemy size and scaled by the level difference between Coen and the target.

Enemy size	Base XP
Small	10
Default	15
Big	30
Large	60
Mini boss	150
Boss	300
Huge boss	600
Largest	1,200

That reward is multiplied by 0.3 when the target is four or more levels below Coen, stays at 1.0 within three levels either way, rises to 1.2 from four levels above and doubles from seven levels above. Farming trivial enemies does not work; fighting above your level does.

Quest rewards come from a fixed tier table rather than being written per quest, which makes them easy to compare. The full set of 205 quests and activities pays out 103,175 experience in total.

Quest tier	XP	Plus variant
Very small quest	100	175
Small quest	250	325
Medium quest	500	650
Large quest	1,000	1,300
Very large quest	1,500	1,800
Inspections and vistas	25 to 250 depending on size

Corruption is the vampire half of progression. It advances on blood segments drunk rather than on experience: the first level needs 5 segments, the second another 10, the third another 15, then 25 a level for several levels and rising from there. Coen starts with 2 blood segments worth 150 each.

Corruption	Blood segments	Total segments
1	5	5
2	10	15
3	15	30
4	25	55
5	25	80
6	25	105
7	25	130
8	35	165
9	35	200
10	35	235
11	45	280
12	45	325
13	45	370
14	45	415
15	45	460

The Blood of Dawnwalker ships four difficulty presets. They change combat maths rather than only numbers.

Preset	Description
Story	An immersive story experience with less challenging combat. Enemies are weaker and slower. Coen has more stamina.
Fair	A balanced experience with fair gameplay challenges. All of Coen's and enemy statistics are at their default levels.
Challenging	Realistic and deadly. Enemies are more aggressive and they hit harder. Coen has less stamina.
Duelist	No directional indicators. Enemies have less health, but they are far more aggressive and hit much harder. Coen has much less stamina.

Story halves enemy health, cuts enemy damage to 40 percent and multiplies the parry window by 2.5, while higher difficulties raise enemy attack speed and shrink the parry window as Coen levels up.

Higher perk levels are gated by player level and by skill points already spent. See Skill Trees for how tiers work.

Perk level	Player level	Skill points spent
1	0	0
2	5	2
3	10	4
4	15	6