Board Thread:Guides/@comment-26299522-20150902160512

Overview of levels and gaining experience Edit
(For detailed information on experience gain and how it works, look on the "Experience" article written on this wiki.)

Leveling up on NTerraria Free Mode will provide a player with stat points. Providing a play has chosen a class they will also receive class points up until level 30 which is the current class level cap. The world's level and also mob level scales with the level of the player, a level 50 character will encounter lower level enemies when compared to a level 500 character. As the player moves further away from the spawn (Centre of the of world and initial spawn) they will encounter higher level enemies.

Tips on leveling Edit
As it currently stands, and unknown whether this is a bug or not, breaking wooden planks will give the player 1000 experience, which for lower levels in a very large amount, often enough to level up a level 1 character to level 50 in a matter of minutes. Past this point, the best way to level up is to go to further sides of the world and find areas in which there is a large amount of enemies spawning, this would increase your experience gain as the enemies further away from spawn will provide you with increased experience.

Past level 50 it is recommended that you have broken atleast 1 orb on either a corrupt or crimson world to allow for a meteorite to spawn. Meteorites provide very quick leveling as they are constant and often a higher level than the player. Since the levels of the enemies scale with the characters level, it is recommended that when experience starts to decrease below 15% a kill, to reload the world. The levels of the enemies do not update continuously and require a restart/refresh of the world to update them, or to move far away from the area and allow for a "refresh" of the area.

Other ways of leveling involve the dungeon, mages from the dungeon and imps from the underworld fire magic orbs which can be killed, these are a one shot kill and make leveling incredibly easy when arriving at a dungeon that is a suitable level. These magic orcs are often that of a normal mobs experience gain when killed, so having multiple wizards firing orbs can be a very fast way to level.

(feel free to add information below if I have missed out anything)  