How far have people gone without grinding on A-Spec?

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How far have people gone without grinding on A-Spec?

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I said 30 even though I did run the Indy race a few times for money. The reason I was able to get this high was that I hit level 30 B-Spec and then did the X1 challenge which pays boat loads of XP.

Actually though the dreading grinding comes more from driving overpowered cars in the events. If you win every race on the first try your total XP is going to be lower where as if you match your car, power and tires to the AI you will end up needing to run some races more than once just to get the win and as a result your XP will be higher overall without re-running races which you have already won.

On my second profile I am up to level 26 and there are lots of races I have not ran yet.
 
I'll vote when i need to start grinding, I'm on level 25 now.
 
I am level 26 (6k xp to 27)... And still have FGT Championship, 2 Licences, Historic Race Car Cup... And some Endurance stuff. I believe that I'll get to 28 when I start to grind. Or even 29 (new seasonal events really soon?)
 
lvl 23 once I got the American Championship Indy track it was all over, jumped into a ZR1 RM and ground out the credits to get a FGT since that was the next most expensive one make car I needed.
 
Nearly level 29 and still got few endurances races left to do but thats it.
Done all the Special events 1st then started doing A spec and in between more special events when level requirement was reached.
Haven't done a single event more then 1 time so far and didn't race online at all.
Mind you I golded everything so that might have helped thus far.

Doing B Spec at the moment and yes that IS a grind to get to the vettel challenge which will help a few levels again. But getting lvl 40 will be a pain stacking business after that I reckon ? Guess I'll just race online for fun and get some exp from there. can't really be asked to do events 100's of times just to get exp. No way MMO style no thanks.
 
I'm nearly level 21 A-Spec with level 12 B-Spec (I HATE B-Spec), I usually get gold first time even using a dual shock 3, i golded the first licence first time i did it, so that really helps leveling up fast 👍
 
I'm at 29 A-spec now and hit a wall. Haven't done any endurance races yet but those won't get me to 35 I'm sure.
 
I got into a bit of a grind at level 22/23, then the seasonal events came along and I'm now at level 27 (almost 28).

To be fair, I hadn't completed the Leob rally on gold nor most of the other specials (they were all silver), I think golding those events will help you level up much higher, much faster.
 
me to level 29, and still dont grind, just waiting for seasonal events to pop up and Playing online.
 
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I'm at 29 A-spec now and hit a wall. Haven't done any endurance races yet but those won't get me to 35 I'm sure.
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those give you, lets say if you level 28, it gives you Half of it to next level, so you beat 2 endurance races and get 1 level.
 
Tvensky
those give you, lets say if you level 28, it gives you Half of it to next level, so you beat 2 endurance races and get 1 level.
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Yeah, but I don't plan on doing any endurance races more than once. Grinding endurance races is just too much.
 
Stotty
Level 34 A spec and I haven't done any grinding beyond running 2 extra dream car championships to get to 10 million credits and dupe the F2010.

B spec is your friend for A spec levelling... get to lvl 30 B spec, unlock the Vettel Challenges and you'll level up quickly even with bronzes... if you can get golds you're pretty much all the way to lvl 35.

I'm just a few 100,000 exp off 35 now, and haven't run the MX5 enduro or the Tsukuba 9h enduro yet... if I can ever be bothered to run them I'll get lvl 35 and that will be the end of A spec for me.
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This is exactly what I'm aiming for: my secondary account hasn't ran a single race twice, and has only finished the first two leagues in A-Spec. Oh, and missing the Expert GT Rally Special Event. Even then, I'm just about at 26 already. I should hit 30 pretty easily before needing to re-run a race, which will open up the Vettel challenge and bump me quite a bit.

This is all without a single B-Spec race in that save yet, as I'm curious if it's possible without letting the morons in any of my cars :lol:.
 
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Yeah, but I don't plan on doing any endurance races more than once. Grinding endurance races is just too much.
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true!
 
I'm a level 24 and I just started to grind on A-spec, mainly because I had the urge to get all 17 RM cars and spent all my money doing so. At least now I have all 17 RM cars and the penniless trophy. :)
 
I was grinding well below level 20. I collect cars in GT. Multiple cars. 3-4 copies of each with different settings, weight reductions, fulls sets of every tire for each, etc etc. I grind it out for money to get the car collection I want. I've given up caring about the stupid Levels in this game, they'll come in time. I just want more cars!
 
I'm on lvl 24 and no grinding so far... Well, not yet.. :)
Bonus races help a LOT.

I'm doing online race more than offline.
 
I hit A-Spec 27 without grinding and pretty much haven't been arsed with the enduro's done 1st 2..

You guy's know your Bob's will unlock you a Free Gift X2010 @ B-Spec L35 Right?

This is the car you should use for them to then grind i'e dream car for cash
(and not have to restart races every three minutes) $1m approx 1hr 👍

and also for you to practice your laps on the required tracks to beat the Vettel Challenge?

X2010 is the perfect set and forget car for b-speccin the 24hr's as your pretty much guaranteed a win do each one and then like me grind a tsukuba 9hr a night in a stealth car if you got it or other to "finish" off the grind to 40...
 
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This is something of a moving target question, as many of us had the game up to the grinding point before the Seasonals and the increase in cr. and EXP came about. Add to that that some of us may not have the skills to gold every single challenge and License (I can't figure out how ANYONE drives that Lambo around in the dark!) and the bar for grinding fluctuates a lot...
 
So far, I'm at lvl 22 and the only grinding I did was because I WANTED a certain car and I'm somewhat of a money hoarder.

Even then, I only ran the race once. I just didnt want to go broke buying and tuning the car.
 
The more pertinent question is, how far did you go without grinding AT ALL?

Because, once the initial novelty wears off, I am afraid that B-Spec is nothing BUT a grind. And now constitutes nearly half of GT5's events. Whether I have to grind personally, or whether Bob does it is of little difference to me. There should be enough A-Spec events that no-one has to grind. EVER...
 
I've been lucky enough to reach level 31 in A-spec with only a couple of repeated races. A sprinkling of golds in the special and seasonal events have helped, and a big chunk of xp came from unlocking the Vettel challenge via B-spec. That was made less of a grind for me because I work from home and can have Bob 'working' while I'm working.

I can't see me doing the longer enduros though, so any further progress is down to seasonals and online. Not up for the grind at all. Plenty of cars in the garage I've yet to try, and I can't help but spend hours fruitlessly trying to get on the board in the time trials...
 
I think I got up to level 25 or so before the grinding started. I remember going through levels 26 and 27 just by moving the exp bar 1 mm at a time with the Indy race in the American Championship. That was before there was an online dealership, and I needed money for the Formula GT, and was waiting for it to show up in the UCD. And since I'd completed every other race up through Extreme, and had completed all my favorite races numerous times, there wasn't much else to do. I finally switched to the European Championship since I absolutely could not stand to go around Indy any more.
 
I'm currently lvl 28 with $6m in the bank and haven't had to grind any A-specs yet. Have had to repeat a good few B-specs tho (Bspec lvl 24 overall, 3 Bobs- one 21, one 19 and one 13 iirc)
 
The Seasonal Events have proved a massive help in this. I was on level 12 before I started them and I'm currently 3/4 of the way through level 25. I've only done 4 A-Spec races on beginner, still got all the others to do and still have AMG, Grand Tour, Top Gear and some of the GT Rally special events (as well as the Vettel challenge when it unlocks) to do. Also still yet to do the IA and S licences and have managed gold on everything up till now except licence test IB3. I'm hoping I can get to somewhere around level 30-32 before any real grinding is likely to start and possibly even further if we keep getting more Seasonal Events.
 
I'm at level 28. I've done the first endurance race and all other A-Spec races are gold. The only thing I grinded for was enough money to by the FGT. This was before the seasonal events came out.
 
I had to grind from 29 to 30 because easy exp online events give came a little too late for me. Now the exp they give is practically useless.
 
The seasonal events have sure helped, but I am A-Spec Level 27, with the B License in Gold.

I have 3 Extreme series to do, and have yet to do any Endurance races either.

I have done roughly 3/4 of the Special events with either a gold or silver.

Surprisingly, I have been playing B-Spec lately. I am finding myself having somewhat of an addiction to it and am at Level 12.
 
I hit level 28 in A-spec without repeating anything. I haven't touched the endurance races yet.

but these vettel challenges are really hard so i guess technically i'm grinding now to finish them. ( only one bronze so far on monza with a DS3).

In B-spec it's nothng but a grind to level 32 now.
 
Level 34, still not grinding! Altough I repeated Indy 500 once. But it's whatever, I don't consider it as grind.
 
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