Pokémon Go Leak Reveals XP and Level Up Tasks Needed for Game's New Level 80 Cap — And Some Fans Are Saying it's Too Easy

Pokémon Go's caller level headdress requirements person leaked, and immoderate fans accidental the caller XP full required, arsenic good arsenic the immoderate of the other tasks involved, are excessively easy.

This week, Pokémon Go volition rise its existent level 50 headdress for the archetypal clip successful 5 years, and let players to scope level 80 for the archetypal time. But this alteration volition travel alongside an wide rebalancing of XP — meaning galore players volition find themselves transported to a overmuch higher level, and perchance acold beyond the XP needed to instantly deed level 80.

Of course, players won't simply log connected and find themselves astatine the decorativeness line. As is the lawsuit currently, a caller acceptable of further tasks volition request to beryllium completed to advancement done the game's last tier of levels (from 70 to 80, replacing akin tasks required to determination from 40 to 50). But adjacent these — which person been datamined by fans — person been dubbed arsenic alternatively straightforward.

Last night, a station connected the authoritative Pokémon Go blog listed retired the caller XP requirements needed aft the game's level headdress increases tomorrow, October 15.

Pokémon Go rebalanced XP requirements:

• Level 10: 48,000 full XP
• Level 20: 258,000 full XP
• Level 30: 1,083,000 full XP
• Level 40: 3,953,000 full XP
• Level 50: 12,753,000 full XP
• Level 60: 34,353,000 full XP
• Level 70: 85,853,000 full XP
• Level 80: 203,353,000 full XP

It's absorbing to comparison these caller totals with the amounts of XP needed to deed the game's level 50 headdress now. Currently, hitting level 50 requires a beingness full of 176 cardinal XP. (This week, pursuing the game's rebalance, level 50 volition necessitate conscionable 12.75 cardinal XP.) This means the caller level 80 headdress requires conscionable 27 cardinal much XP than the existent level 50.

While it's been wide for a portion that Pokémon Go's caller level headdress volition travel alongside an wide smoothing of the game's wide XP requirements, hardcore fans person inactive been amazed to observe that galore of them volition erstwhile again beryllium successful Pokémon Go's caller endgame, with small to nary existent XP grinding required.

Moving connected to those level up tasks, fans examining a datamined database of what volition beryllium needed person judged the requirements arsenic alternatively straightforward. Each level requires players clasp an expanding fig of platinum in-game medals, though these tin beryllium earned successful a mode that reflects your playstyle. Some volition instrumentality clip — Purifying 100 Shadow Pokémon — but with readying there's thing present which should clasp up hardcore players for excessively long.

Indeed, determination is besides palpable alleviation among fans astatine the deficiency of immoderate artificial timegating present — specified arsenic requiring a Pokémon beryllium caught connected 30 days, holding advancement backmost a period — thing which has been recovered successful different challenges previously.

Pokémon Go Level 71-80 level up tasks

• Level 71
  Earn 15 platinum medals
  Power up Legendary oregon Mythical Pokémon 20 times
  Make 999 Nice Throws
  Catch 100 Pokémon successful a azygous day
• Level 72
  Earn 20 platinum medals
  Complete a Route 7 days successful a row
  Use 200 supereffective Charged Attacks
  Earn 1,000,000 Stardust
• Level 73
  Earn 25 platinum medals
  Purify 100 Shadow Pokémon
  Power up 3 Pokémon to their max CP
  Win 30 Raids
• Level 74
  Earn 30 platinum medals
  Level up a Max Move 20 times
  Explore 200 km
  Complete 250 Field Research tasks

• Level 75
  Earn 34 platinum medals
  Make 999 Great Throws
  Hatch 75 Eggs
  Send 500 Gifts to friends
• Level 76
  Earn 38 platinum medals
  Defeat 100 Team GO Rocket Grunts
  Explore 300 km
  Catch 200 Pokémon successful a azygous day
• Level 77
  Earn 41 platinum medals
  Win 100 Max Battles
  Power up 7 Pokémon to their max CP
  Make 10 trades with Pokémon caught astatine slightest 300 km apart
• Level 78
  Earn 44 platinum medals
  Earn 400 hearts with your buddy
  Explore 400 km
  Complete 500 Field Research tasks
• Level 79
  Earn 47 platinum medals
  Defeat a Team GO Rocket Leader 30 times
  Obtain 50 Lucky Pokémon successful trades
  Hatch 100 Eggs
• Level 80
  Earn 50 platinum medals
  Win 80 Trainer Battles successful the GO Battle League
  Make 999 Excellent Throws
  Win 80 Raids

With these tasks, and with Pokémon Go's caller XP rebalance, it feels wide that the crippled is adjusting itself for newer players, and leveling the playing tract somewhat truthful there's a accidental for newcomers to drawback up with those who person been playing for astir a decade. As the crippled approaches its 10-year day adjacent year, its developers volition apt privation to guarantee Pokémon Go continues to invited caller humor to its userbase, without giving them excessively steep an XP upland to climb. But immoderate veterans are little impressed.

"These are each truthful easy," wrote Old_Indication_4379 connected apical Pokémon Go instrumentality reddit TheSilphRoad.

"I'm disappointed beyond disappointment," added different fan, avaible17. "I'm sitting astatine 352M xp and I uncertainty that it is precise awesome fig for astir of the aged players. I hoped for a situation and information to play, I've got casual and repetitive tasks, that astir of them tin beryllium done successful a time (except walking ofc).

"I was hoping for instauration of caller benignant of medals, that would marque my grind beyond capabilities of quality flesh," they continued. "Now I'm penning this and thinking, that they conscionable marque it easier for beginners, not much challenging for aged dogs."

Pokémon Go's caller Daily Adventure Egg and Incubator.

Fresh incentives to climbing levels volition see imperishable boosts to Pokémon, inventory and acquisition storage, and an improved accidental astatine gaining Lucky Friends presumption erstwhile players are level 70 and above. Finally, and astir mysteriously, there's a caller 1km Daily Adventure Incubator for players implicit level 15. Alongside the game's existent Daily Adventure Incense item, which rewards players with other spawns for 15 minutes, this is designed to reward players who locomotion astatine slightest 1km per day.

Exactly which Pokémon the Daily Adventure Incubator volition hatch, however, remains chartless — though fans are already speculating that the mechanic volition yet see an ultra-rare Pokémon (Manaphy and Phione look a bully bet!) akin to however the Daily Adventure Incense has a uncommon accidental astatine spawning a Galar Legendary bird.

Overnight, Pokémon Go's improvement squad fixed yesterday's large bug which bricked the crippled for anyone who completed its archetypal Weekly Challenge. A connection posted connected the Niantic Support societal media relationship past nighttime offered a smattering of XP and Stardust arsenic an apology to impacted players, though did not authorities whether the Weeky Challenge diagnostic would instrumentality adjacent week.

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