Time needed to max out Commander level (1 to 1000)

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It depends on a couple of things:

  • Playing a lot more during holiday bonus periods
    • or with stimpacks
  • Prestiging 54 times:
    • Level 1-15 is 1,045,000 XP each time
      • If you are starting from scratch with no CO’s, that’s 18,810,000 XP to level all 18 current CO’s.
    • A single Ascension level (after mastery 90) is 200,000 XP.
      • So approximately 5 ascension levels worth of XP lost per prestige.
    • 56,430,000 XP for 54 prestiges
    • That’s 282 lost ascension levels; and 30,000 XP in change.
  • Mastery: Level 1 to 90 requires 18,467,500 XP
    • 18,467,500 XP would get you 92 Ascension levels + 67,500 XP
    • and ignoring the carry over loss from level 89 to 90
  • Ascension: Level 90 to 1000 requires 182,000,000 XP
  • Playing Co-op in multiple regions: since it’s not sync’ed, if you are playing in multiple regions, you can do the math for lost effort towards that goal; or how much you need to redo everything.

From scratch, all CO’s + all Prestiges + Mastery 90 + Ascension 1000:

((1_045_000 * 18) +        # Level 1-15 for all 18 CO's
 (1_045_000 * 54) +        # 54 Prestiges
 18_467_500       +        # Mastery 1 to 90
 ((1000 - 90) * 200_000))  # Ascension 90 to 1000

= 275,707,500 XP

  • 5569 games of Brutal on Random map with Bonus
    • (not counting XP loss; mutations or daily XP bonus)
  • 6126 games of Brutal on Random map no Bonus

And if you wanted to do it with just 1 CO (very boring) and no Prestiges, aka the minimum: 201,512,500 XP.

  • Grinding only speedruns on specific map on brutal without bonus: 5037 games

(The sc2coop xp/games calculator allows only up to 8 digits, so either do that and multiply the ‘games needed’ answer by 10. Or work out <your xp goal> ÷ <how long you take per game>.)

The maniacal option: Get to mastery lvl 45-ish and use Artanis P3 to farm Cradle of Death on Brutal +6.

Imho, prioritise reaching mastery 90 since that gets you all the useful XP which can affect your game; not counting … this.

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