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Tell the calculator a couple of your clear times — it works out your damage and ranks every stage you can clear by EXP per hour.

Your EXP / hour

Find the best stage for EXP or for gold — same clear times, ranked for each.

The game never shows EXP per hour. Enter your clear time for a few stages and this fits your damage, then ranks the stages you can clear — the best farm is often below the hardest stage you can beat.

Hero levelEXP bonus%

The hero you want to level. We apply the game's hidden over-level EXP penalty per stage. EXP bonus % (runes/gear) is optional — it scales every stage equally, so it won't change the ranking.

Floor — Stage 1-1

1-1Pasture

You one-shot everything here, so 1-1 measures your running and spawn-wait time between waves.

Ceiling — your reliable max

The hardest stage you clear 100% of the time. Sets your damage; nothing above it is ever recommended.

The hidden over-level EXP penalty

The game quietly gives a hero less EXP when it's above a stage's level — and never tells you. We reverse-engineered the exact formula from the game's code. Here's how much EXP a hero keeps farming stages below its level:

Stage level	30 at level	28 −2	26 −4	24 −6	22 −8	20 −10	18 −12	15 −15
EXP a Lv 30 hero keeps	100%	100%	94%	78%	50%	23%	10%	3%

Enter your hero level above to personalize this (showing Lv 30).

Being under-levelled — when the stage is above your hero's level — is penalised too, but much more gently: a hero keeps full EXP until it's well below the stage's level, so it only bites at large gaps.

Reverse-engineered from the game's own code and validated against real runs to within 1%. As far as we know, this penalty hasn't been documented anywhere else.

EXP per stage

Player-independent base data: fixed enemy count, total HP, and the EXP a hero at the stage's own level earns (before the over-level penalty and your bonuses). Use the calculator above for EXP/hour tailored to you.

Stage	Lv	Waves	Enemies	Total HP	EXP / clear	EXP / HP
1-1 Pasture	1	10	10	560	16	0.03
1-2 Shadow Meadow	2	11	22	2.0K	46	0.02
1-3 Wasteland	3	11	33	3.1K	79	0.03
1-4 Eerie Canyon	5	12	36	6.8K	298	0.04
1-5 Burning Village Entrance	6	12	48	15K	739	0.05
1-6 Rumstreet Square	7	12	60	33K	1.2K	0.04
1-7 City Outskirts	8	12	72	21K	1.5K	0.07
1-8 Cemetery	10	13	78	34K	2.7K	0.08
1-9 Cursed Land	11	13	91	81K	6.0K	0.07
2-1 Oasis Road	13	14	98	93K	7.4K	0.08
2-2 Sandstorm Valley	14	14	98	134K	10K	0.07
2-3 Desert Underground Cave	15	14	98	222K	12K	0.05
2-4 Bug Nest	16	15	105	285K	15K	0.05
2-5 Scorching Dunes	17	15	105	264K	15K	0.06
2-6 Sunset Ruins	18	15	120	681K	35K	0.05
2-7 Midnight Sands	19	15	120	892K	36K	0.04
2-8 Sacred Tomb	20	16	128	801K	31K	0.04
2-9 Pharaoh's Crypt	21	16	128	1.6M	59K	0.04
3-1 Snowbound Outpost	23	16	128	963K	50K	0.05
3-2 Frozen Battlefield	24	16	128	1.5M	45K	0.03
3-3 Glacial Cave Entrance	25	17	153	2.1M	56K	0.03
3-4 Frozen Glacier Cavern	26	17	153	3.2M	59K	0.02
3-5 Hell Gate	27	17	153	2.9M	70K	0.02
3-6 Burning Ravine	28	17	153	4.0M	176K	0.04
3-7 Plains of Torment	29	17	170	3.9M	171K	0.04
3-8 Citadel of Ruin	30	18	180	3.8M	280K	0.07
3-9 Core of the Abyss	31	18	198	4.6M	297K	0.06

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