What do players have left to do after reaching the maximum level in Anthem? We have summarized all the known information about the endgame here for you.
What is there to do after max level 30? The endgame in Anthem begins after reaching the maximum pilot level of 30. Then everything revolves around upgrading your personal Javelin suit, which can be enhanced with various weapons, components, and class-specific modifications. You can find the four Javelin types in our extensive overview.
How good the loot ultimately will be depends on the activity and the chosen difficulty level. The following difficulty levels are currently known:
- Easy
- Normal
- Hard
- Grandmaster 1
- Grandmaster 2
- Grandmaster 3
This is how the difficulty levels work: The difficulty levels indicate how much health each enemy has and how much damage they deal. Thus, at Grandmaster 3, the health and damage points of any enemies are scaled up by a staggering 950%.
This ultimately makes the selected activity many times more difficult. Accordingly, the drop rate of rarer items also increases. At Grandmaster 3, you have a 250% higher chance of receiving a legendary item at the end of the activity than with the three conventional difficulty levels.
Basically, it holds true: The harder the mission, the better the reward. At first, you will only have the three usual difficulty levels to choose from: Easy, Normal, and Hard. The additional Grandmaster levels will only be unlocked once you have reached pilot level 30.
What constitutes long-term motivation? The goal of every player will be to continuously increase their power level to tackle ever more challenging missions. Here, the different difficulty levels provide a visible ladder that you can gradually climb.
If you, for example, got a good weapon drop in one of the strongholds, you can leisurely test them out in freeplay. However, if you set the freeplay mode to one of the Grandmaster levels, you can still test your new toy while having the chance to receive an equally good drop during a random world event.
What can be grinded in the endgame? You can continuously increase your power level and expand your arsenal of rare items. Starting from the Grandmaster levels, masterful or even legendary items can drop for you. These come with different inscriptions and can thus be farmed or crafted repeatedly.
Here you can find out how the crafting system works.
Here you will find the best equipment properties in Anthem.
You can find a list of all masterful and legendary items here.
What is the maximum power level? Your power level results from the sum of your total item power. Your pilot level is then added. So, if you have equipped a legendary item with the highest level (47) in each slot, your power level, including the added pilot level, should equal 500.
Strongholds
What are strongholds? They are often compared to dungeons or smaller raids from other games. Strongholds are somewhat longer missions where you, as a team, must complete specific objectives and fight through various hordes of enemies, section by section.
At the end, you will face a powerful boss enemy, which not only drags a long health bar across the screen but also usually possesses unique mechanics and weaknesses to learn. The currently known strongholds are:
- The Mine of the Tyrant
- The Temple of Scar
- The Heart of Vengeance
What is special about strongholds? They not only include the most difficult challenges in Anthem, but also the best loot. Therefore, they offer the best opportunity to obtain gear with the rarities “Masterwork” and “Legendary”. After successfully completing each section, a loot box appears that can contain a variety of weapons and Javelin upgrades.
Which rarity level these drops ultimately have depends on the previously chosen difficulty level.
How long do strongholds last? The usual time investment for this activity is about 15 to 20 minutes at a low difficulty level. Starting from the Grandmaster levels, it can even take up to 40 minutes or longer, depending on how experienced the respective team is. Moreover, strongholds can be repeated as many times as desired.
Why are they so important for the endgame? Strongholds are among the hardest challenges in Anthem. Players will be looking for the best ways to optimize their run and develop new strategies.
So far, nowhere else in Anthem does it rely so heavily on individual players’ cooperation and team composition as in strongholds.
Legendary Contracts
What are contracts? Contracts are special missions you receive from various NPCs in Fort Tarsis. They are repeatable quests that earn you certain rewards.
At pilot level 30, you gain access to Legendary Contracts, which will be a primary activity for many of you in the endgame as they promise high-quality gear.
How do contracts work? Since the details of a contract, such as the exact mission location or the objectives within, are generated anew every time, Legendary Contracts prove to be a worthwhile farming method that remains varied. Moreover, you also receive reputation for one of the three factions for each completed contract.
However, you only receive one Legendary Contract per day. Once you have unlocked the Legendary Contracts for all three factions, that means you have three missions per day. Depending on the contractor, you level up a specific faction in Fort Tarsis.
Contracts are usually easy to complete and average only 10 to 15 minutes long.
Daily, Weekly & Monthly Trials
What are trials? Trials are milestones with a limited time window, distinguished between daily, weekly, and monthly challenges. If completed within the designated timeframe, you will be rewarded accordingly based on the milestone.
This is what the trials bring: For daily and weekly trials, there are mainly coins as rewards. Sometimes there are also crafting materials. For the monthly trials, you will be rewarded with Masterwork Ember. You need this resource to craft Masterwork items using blueprints.
When do the trials reset?
- Daily trials reset every day at 1:00 PM
- Weekly trials reset every Friday at 1:00 PM
- Monthly trials reset for the first time on Tuesday, March 5 at 1:00 PM
Tip: There are additional trials that are not displayed at the hourglasses. To find them, you must select in your journal under challenges “Path to Glory”. Here you will find three additional Daily and Weekly trials and several Monthly trials.
Challenges
What are challenges? Challenges are tasks that you automatically complete while playing. You can find them in your Cortex. If you successfully complete a task, you will be rewarded with something fitting.
Challenges are divided into the following categories:
- Path to Glory
- Factions
- Expeditions
- Exploration
- Equipment
- Weapons
- Heroics
- Combat
- Javelin
- Freelancer
Here we show you how medals work and what heroics there are.
What rewards are there? Through the challenges, you can work towards a desired object. For example, if you particularly like a weapon, you can defeat enemies with it and thus complete the corresponding challenge concurrently. If you reach the required number of kills, you will receive the blueprint for that weapon at a higher rarity level as a reward.
This way you can craft it repeatedly until you find the desired bonuses. Thus, you can gradually upgrade your favorite weapon until you eventually unlock its Masterwork variant.
Cortex entries provide search challenges: In the world of Anthem, there are small collectible items scattered everywhere that you can pick up. These include various scrolls, papers, and glowing symbols on floors and walls.
These collectibles are spread throughout every corner of the world; some of them can even be found in Fort Tarsis. These collectibles give you an entry into the lore of Anthem, which you can read anytime in the Cortex.
Cataclysms & Shaper Storms
What are these events? In the very first gameplay trailer for Anthem, which announced the game for the first time in 2017, a Shaper Storm was already teased. These impressive giant storms are now called “Cataclysms”.
It is already known that these global events can last several weeks and will be accessible to all players at the same time. BioWare describes these events as seasonal and meta-altering.
What happens during Cataclysms? We already got a small taste of the endgame events in the demo, where a mysterious cloud formation became noticeable in the sky, followed shortly after by colossal Ash Titans appearing in the world. In certain areas, small asteroids even rained down.
In the game, these events are supposed to leave a significant impact on the world and are even expected to affect the world map. Intense weather changes and mysterious secrets should also be part of the Cataclysms.
According to BioWare’s latest roadmap, the first Cataclysm of Anthem is set to arrive in May.
Social Features
In Anthem, there will be no conventional clans or guilds at the beginning; these are to be added to the game at a later time. However, what will be included from the start is the Alliance system.
What is the Alliance system? Essentially, the Alliance system is a special reward system designed to reward friendly players even when they are on separate missions. If you successfully complete an expedition (which includes missions, contracts, free play, and strongholds), you receive a certain amount of Alliance XP at the end.
This Alliance XP rewards you at the end of each week with the in-game currency “Coin”. How many coins you ultimately receive depends on which “Alliance Tier”, or which alliance level, you were able to achieve during the week. If you diligently complete expeditions in your Alliance, you will be ranked in a correspondingly high tier and receive more coins for that.
There is a social hub: After an expedition, you have the choice to either return to Fort Tarsis or directly enter the forge. However, there is also a third option called “Launch Bay.” Unlike in Fort Tarsis, in this social hub, you control your Javelin from a third-person perspective instead of the first-person view.
Here you can hang out with up to 15 other players, show off your upgraded Javelin, or find new friends for expeditions. Like in Fort Tarsis, there are also the forge, the regulator shop, and the same contracts here.
Cosmetics
What are cosmetics? Another aspect of the endgame includes the cosmetic skins and customization options in Anthem, with which you can design your Javelin quite individually.
All cosmetics will be earnable through coins. This aims to motivate players to grind for their dream look.
How exactly can I customize my Javelin? The customization feature of Anthem is extremely complex. Here’s what you can change on your Javelin:
- Equipment parts (interchangeable helmets, chest plates, arm and leg armors)
- Wide color selection for different equipment parts
- Various applicable materials and textures
- Special paints and vinyls
- Victory poses
- Landing poses
- Emotes
Vanity Chests bring stronghold loot
These are Vanity Chests: The Vanity Chests are special loot boxes that await you at the end of a stronghold dungeon. There are a total of four, all of which are locked. To open the chests, you need a key for each.
What’s in these chests? We are talking about around 100 cosmetic items such as gestures, cosmetic items for your Javelins, and crafting materials, as some of these items apparently must be crafted.
How do you get a key? Details on this have not yet been disclosed by BioWare. It is only known that it is related to daily challenges. Presumably, you complete a daily mission and can therefore open one of these chests once a day.
So if you are in a stronghold with four people and all have a key, you can all open the chests and everyone in the team receives the rewards for each of the four boxes.
How long will it take to unlock all these items? According to BioWare, it should indeed be possible to obtain all 100 items with 100 keys. Although details have not been provided, it seems that there are no duplicates.
What is planned for the endgame in the future?
There will be repeatable story missions: As part of the update coming in March, a feature will allow you to replay various story missions. Players can thus look forward to legendary missions, similar to contracts.
This is the content that is promised for the future: BioWare released a roadmap for Anthem. Fresh content is to be delivered regularly, and new events should keep the freelancers entertained.
This is intended to encourage players to return to the game time and again, like a good Netflix series, where one can hardly wait to see what happens next. The developers want to take a completely new approach to future content releases.
Instead of conventional DLCs, world events will be intermittently interspersed. The event content is thus meant to maintain excitement for players and provide ongoing discussion material within the community. This way, Anthem is intended to tell a long, interactive story that entertains players week after week with new events.
Some players on PC and Xbox One have already been roaming around in Anthem since February 15 through early access. What they say about the endgame after 2 weeks can be found here.
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