There are several different level types inLove And Deepspaceorganized by combat and romance mechanics. If you want to improve your combat abilities, you will want to focus on leveling up your Hunter Level. If you want to improve your relationships, you’ll want to focus on leveling up your Affinity level with the characters.

To improve your Hunter Level — your personal level, separate from romance characters —you will need to complete combat levels and improve your combat prowess. Hunter Level is tied to the various battle stages in Love And Deepspace, which means that you should focus on improving your combat team and defeating combat stages.

Love And Deepspace: An image of Sylus and the player enterring battle against a Wanderer

Best Ways To Improve Your Hunter Level

Out of all of the different leveling types in Love And Deepspace,Hunter Levelis by far themost importantin terms of storyline progression. As you get further into the game’s main storyline, you will find that combat stages becomemore and more difficultto clear.

Hunters withhigher Hunter Levelswill tend to havebetter successduring combat stages, and thus have an easier time finishing the game’s main storyline chapters.

Love And Deepspace: An image of the player fighting a Wanderer

Since Hunter Level is so closely tied to combat, thebest wayto improve your Hunter Level quickly is tofocus on completing Combat Stages every day. The more combat experience you earn, the closer you are to completing Hunter Levels.

Here are a few ways you can squeeze as many Hunter Experience points out of combat as possible.

Love And Deepspace: An image of Sylus’s affinity level up screen

Complete Combat Stages

There are many different kinds of combat stages to complete each day, and you’llunlock more combat levelsas you improve your overall Hunter Level.

Thebest stagesto clear areBounties and Core Hunt, but you can also completeDeepspace Trials, Abyssal Chaos levels, and enter theHunter Contest.

Love And Deepspace: An image of the Hunter Development reward screen

Allof the battle stages you can access in the Battle tab of Destiny Cafe will give youHunter Experience.

Bounty Hunts and Core Hunts give youvaluable resourcesneeded toimprove Memories. More powerful Memories meanmore successin battle stages. Completing Bounties and Core Hunt will alsogive you Daily Task points— thesecond-bestway to improve your Hunter Level quickly.

Love And Deepspace: An image of Sylus sleeping in Destiny Cafe during the day

Furthermore, you’ll geteven more experiencefor perfecting combat stages. Go back to stages you’ve finished before andtry to earn three starson them. You’ll receive precious resources likeDiamonds and Bottles of Wishes.

Every day, you are awarded alevel-specificamount of Stamina. Aim toempty your Stamina barevery time you log on. You only use Stamina on combat stages, so the more you use it, themore combat experienceyou are earning.

Your Stamina limit willincrease with every Hunter Levelyou gain.

Complete All Daily And Weekly Tasks

The second-best way to level up your hunter level is toalways complete your Daily Tasks. Daily Tasks give you a ton of Hunter Experience, and you’llearn 100 Diamondswhile you’re at it.

Daily Task Points alsocontribute to your Weekly Tasks, which giveeven moreHunter Experience. If you aim to complete every Daily and Weekly Task in the Agenda Tab, you’llamass tons of Hunter Experienceand level up quickly.

Daily and Weekly Tasks alsocontribute to Promise Levelsin the Seasonal Promise list. As you complete your Dailies and Weeklies, you’ll also beearning Promise Rewards, which includelimited run memories,Deepspace Wishes, andEmpyrean Wishes.

Hunter Development Rewards

If you’reunder Hunter Level 55, you can also earn Hunter Development Rewards. You can only get Hunter Development Rewardsup to your 55th level. After level 55, you can no longer collect Hunter Development rewards.

Level 55

10 Empyrean Wishes

Unfortunately, this isonly applicable to new players. There aren’t any equivalent leveling rewards like this during the later stages of the game. If you want toget Empyrean Wishes, you will need to do so throughmore complicated means.

Affinity Levels

Affinity Levels and Hunter Levelsfunction separatelyfrom each other in Love And Deepspace. Hunter Levels are yourmain character’s leveling system, but Affinity Levels aretied to each of the Romance Characters.

Completing Combat Stages willsometimes award Affinity experience, but willalways awardHunter Experience. If you want to improve Affinity with the characters, you should interact with them as much as possible onDates and in Destiny Cafe.

Formore waysto improve Affinity with characters, check out our Affinity guide.