Pyros
<Silver Donator>
Really depends. The fastest way is incredibly boring and tends to be running Empire at Flames on high difficulty(hard to do if it's your first char though since you don't have the requirements for higher diff) and failling as far as you can get, getting to the wine cellar is like 400xp in 2-3minutes. It's fast, but you're basically not playing the game. You can also macro failure on Into the Nest, not sure if the script is still around and still works, autohotkey basic script, basically you just run and drop down to your death at the start, gives like 100xp but takes a minute or so, good for leaving overnight. Should be this, might need tweaking.What's the fastest way to level up? For now I'm just running recruit quick plays, but id guess im at a 2/3 success rate and thats a lot of wasted time. figuring if there's a particularly quick map, soloing it might be faster.
Other than that just playing the game really. It can be rough at early power levels but once you have a comfortable amount you can easily constantly win even if your team is retarded.
You can play with bots, but you'll want to level bots if you want to play at higher difficulties. Bots use the host last played classes, with a priority system on which bot is picked so you always play with Kruber/Kerillian/Sienna/Bardin, unless you yourself play Saltz, so saltz you don't have to lvl for bots. Bots also favor healing items over tomes and never pick grims, so it can be a bitch, you can friendly fire them on higher difficulties to force them to pick tomes but with the nerfs to FF it's very costly ammo wise, the only decent way to get them to pick tomes is to carry nothing yourself so they don't pick healing but then they might just die cause they're not that great. So overall bot games are 1grim 3tomes in the best case, but often less tomes because of the shenanigans they go through, especially when the tomes are in weird spots where the bots get stuck(Athel Yenlui 3rd tome for example).
If you do play bots, recommend getting Sienna/Kruber to 12 for Unchained/Foot Knight, Bardin to 7 for Ironbreaker and Kerillian is good at Waystalker. Good to give them some gear(general rule for weapons, give them weapons with good armor piercing like halberd/glaive/mace/axes and ranged weapons with good single shot power like shotguns/rifles) and talents too so the higher the better. My bots are very strong because I have leveled all classes but unleveled they're not that great(still fine for recruit/veteran).