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2/27/11

The Call of Duty Black Ops Leveling System

The Call of Duty Black Ops Leveling System

First of all, to understand how to level quickly you need to understand how the Black Ops leveling system works. There are 50 levels in a prestige, each level requiring exponentially more experience than the one before. I have included a table below to show you exactly how much experience is needed to reach each level as well as the percentage of the prestige that is completed when you reach that level.

As you can see the total amount of experience necessary to prestige is approximately 1.25 million XP. When you reach level 25 you are actually only 18% of the way through the prestige experience wise, so the first 25 levels are going to go by much faster than the last 25 levels.

Level	Rank Title	Min XP	XP to Next	% Complete
1	Private	0	300	0.00%
2	Private	300	900	0.02%
3	Private	1200	1500	0.10%
4	Private First Class	2700	2100	0.21%
5	Private First Class	4800	2700	0.38%
6	Private First Class	7500	3400	0.59%
7	Specialist	10900	4100	0.86%
8	Specialist	15000	4800	1.19%
9	Specialist	19800	5500	1.57%
10	Corporal	25300	6200	2.00%
11	Corporal	31500	7100	2.50%
12	Corporal	38600	8000	3.06%
13	Sergeant	46600	8900	3.69%
14	Sergeant	55500	9800	4.40%
15	Sergeant	65300	10700	5.17%
16	Staff Sergeant	76000	11800	6.02%
17	Staff Sergeant	87800	12900	6.95%
18	Staff Sergeant	100700	14000	7.98%
19	Sergeant First Class	114700	15100	9.09%
20	Sergeant First Class	129800	16200	10.28%
21	Sergeant First Class	146000	17400	11.56%
22	Sergeant Major	163400	18600	12.94%
23	Sergeant Major	182000	19800	14.42%
24	Sergeant Major	201800	21000	15.98%
25	Lieutenant	222800	22200	17.65%
26	Lieutenant	245000	23500	19.41%
27	Lieutenant	268500	24800	21.27%
28	Captain	293300	26100	23.23%
29	Captain	319400	27400	25.30%
30	Captain	346800	28700	27.47%
31	Major	375500	30100	29.74%
32	Major	405600	31500	32.13%
33	Major	437100	32900	34.62%
34	Lieutenant Colonel	470000	34300	37.23%
35	Lieutenant Colonel	504300	35700	39.94%
36	Lieutenant Colonel	540000	37200	42.77%
37	Colonel	577200	38700	45.72%
38	Colonel	615900	40200	48.78%
39	Colonel	656100	41700	51.97%
40	Brigadier General	697800	43200	55.27%
41	Brigadier General	741000	44800	58.69%
42	Brigadier General	785800	46400	62.24%
43	Major General	832200	48000	65.92%
44	Major General	880200	49600	69.72%
45	Major General	929800	51200	73.65%
46	Lieutenant General	981000	52900	77.70%
47	Lieutenant General	1033900	54600	81.89%
48	Lieutenant General	1088500	56300	86.22%
49	General	1144800	58000	90.68%
50	Commander	1202800	59700	95.27%
Prestige	Commander (Maxed)	1262500	-	100.00%

How to earn experience in Call of Duty Black Ops

How to earn experience

The first thing that you should understand about leveling in black ops is how you earn experience. When you enter a game of Black Ops you are rewarded for the tasks you complete in game. Capturing objectives, killing enemies, assisting teammates, and calling in killstreaks are all examples of in game accomplishments that you can do to earn experience. But aside from the obvious ways of earning experience there are also several side challenges, contracts, and bonuses that can help you on your way.

Match Bonuses

Match bonus XP is exerience earned when you complete an entire match. If you leave during a game you forfeit this match bonus (which is a poor quit penalty to say the least). Your match bonus is determined by your current level, the length of the match and also if you win, lose or tie the match. Your match bonus is multiplied by 1 for a win, 0.5 for a loss, and 0.75 for a tie.

In other words, winning is very important to leveling up quickly, which brings me to my first suggestion. Always play with a team. Your team doesn’t have to be full of MLG caliber players. You just have to have share common goal of going after the objective and playing smart in order to win most of your games. If you already have a group of people that you play with that’s great. If you don’t, I recommend getting involved on some gaming forums or tryout for a clan to get some friends online. You can even add players to your console friends list directly from your recent players. If you are playing the game and get matched up with some good players who you enjoyed playing with send them a message and try to start up a party together. Some of the people I currently play with the most are just players I got matched up with randomly online and really enjoyed playing with.

Challenges

COD challenges are specific tasks that you need to complete in order to earn a set amount of experience. There are two basic types of challenges in Black Ops. Static challenges and Progressive challenges.

Static challenges are challenges that you only need to complete once and you will earn the experience for that entire prestige. For example did you know that you will earn 5000 XP just for earning a bankshot medal (bounce a tomahawk off a surface for a kill)?

Progressive challenges on the other hand are challenges that you complete over time, such as the marksman gun challenge. The marksman gun challenge is a challenge for every gun in the game that earns you experience as you get kills with a particular weapon. There are different levels of this challenge which earn you more XP for every level completed.

All challenges reset when you prestige except the lifetime challenges. Lifetime challenges are generic challenges that you work on when playing any mode in multiplayer and do not reset when you prestige.

Contracts

Contracts are in game bounties which you purchase with cod points and reward you with additional cod points and experience. Contracts are determined by Treyarch and switched every 24 hours to allow more variety on the types of challenges you can complete.

I was surprised to find out how many players don’t actually purchase contracts. I guess they don’t think that completing those challenges will earn them very much experience or help them in their leveling, however I am at prestige 13 and have earned over 700,000 XP on contracts alone, more than half of one prestige all together.

Always try to buy contracts that co-operate with each other. For example get 50 kills with an SMG + Capture 3 flags in CTF. Create an SMG runner class and go play some CTF. Or maybe there is a stab 2 people in the back with ninja contract as well as a get 75 kills with the famas contract. Equip ghost & ninja and a silenced famas and go to work on the other team.

Finally, don’t buy contracts that are going to cause you to do poorly in a game. There might be a 1000 XP contract for getting 50 kills while using the ACOG and Extended Mags on a gun but if you suck while using a poor class setup you are going to end up losing more than 1000 XP from missed kills and frustrating games/losses.

How long does it take to prestige in Call of Duty Black Ops?

How long is this going to take?

If you have weighed the pros and cons of entering prestige mode and want to get through your prestige levels as fast as possible let me outline the time it is going to take to reach max prestige.

Leveling is based off of experience earned while playing the game. Every time you do something that helps your team you are rewarded with experience. For example getting a kill, capturing a point, or defusing a bomb will all earn you experience.

Aside from the things you do in game you are also rewarded for completing specific challenges and contracts that can be purchased in game. On top of that the game rewards you with a bonus XP multiplier anytime you win a game.

Leveling up in Call of Duty even when using the tips in this guide is still a lengthy process. Depending on the skill of you and your team it could take anywhere from 10-20 hours of in game time played to level through all 50 levels of a prestige. That is typically about 100-200 completed games at around 15 minutes per match.

If you can complete 50 levels within 16 hours of game time played you are leveling at a fast pace. I just reached 14th prestige in 8 days and 8 hours of game time played, Which means I have gone through all 50 levels 14 times with an average of 14 game time hours per prestige. People have leveled faster, but that's pretty fast.

2/26/11

Why should I prestige? A look at the benefits of black ops prestige

Why should I prestige?

OK, first off let’s talk about the benefits of entering prestige mode as outlined below. The first 10 prestiges don’t unlock anything aside from a new prestige emblem and an extra custom class slot every other prestige. Starting at prestige 11 you unlocked additional face tattoos to use on your in game character. At prestige 13 you unlock the ability to change the color of your clan tag and at prestige 14 you unlock the ability to purchase golden camouflage for your weapons (50,000 COD Cash a piece). Finally, prestige 15 unlocks the Prestige Pure playlist, a playlist that matches 15th prestige players against other 15th prestige players, and also entering prestige 15 unlocks the only animated playercard background in the game. Below is a chart to show what is unlocked at each prestige:

*Prestige Level*	*Unlocks*
Prestige 1	Custom Class 6, Prestige Leaderboards & Playlist
Prestige 3	Custom Class 7
Prestige 5	Custom Class 8
Prestige 7	Custom Class 9
Prestige 9	Custom Class 10
Prestige 11	Face Tattoos
Prestige 13	Clan Tag Colors
Prestige 14	Golden Camo for guns (50,000 CP per)
Prestige 15	Prestige Pure Playlist, Animated Playercard Background

The 15 prestige emblems that will be located next to your gamertag at each prestige are shown below. My recommendation for you is to look at the emblems and unlocks that you will gain for each prestige and decide if it is worth it for you to prestige. I personally like entering prestige mode because I enjoy the satisfaction of leveling up and unlocking things as I play, but a lot of people don’t care about extra emblems or golden camos, in which case I would recommend just staying at level 50 and hording massive amounts of COD cash for everyone to see.