Ways To Increase Your Power In Fortnite: Save The World

Your Power is one of the most important aspects of Fortnite: Save the World, so we'll tell you how to increase it!

Power, formerly called "Power Level", is an important factor in Save the World because it determines how strong you are in your missions, which in turn influences how likely your missions will succeed. Generally, there are two types of power: Item Power and Homebase Power. We'll tell you how to increase both of them.

Item Power

The Item Power "only" influences an individual item's power but doesn't influence the game mechanics. The following items are only influenced by Item Power and do not influence the Homebase Power:

• Heroes
• Weapons
• Traps
• Defenders

Ways To Improve Item Power

You can improve the Power of these items in three different ways:

• Rarity
  • Save the World has different Rarities, just like Battle Royale.
  • The rarer your item, the more powerful it is.
  • The Rarity order, from weakest to strongest, is: Common > Uncommon > Rare > Epic > Legendary > Mythic.
    • It should be noted that the maximum Rarity for Weapons, Traps and Defenders is Legendary - only Heroes can have Mythic Rarity.

• Level Up
  • You can level up and evolve all items in the "Manage" section of their respective categories, by clicking on the item and selecting "Upgrade/Inspect"
  • You can level up your items with XP gained by completing missions, opening llamas or adding things to your Collection Book.
  • An item's level is shown next to the abbreviation "LV" when you click on "inspect item".
  • Heroes and Defenders need Hero XP to level up.
  • Traps and Weapons can be leveled up with Schematic XP.

• Evolution
  • The Evolution determines your item's Star Level, which is shown next to its LV-Level when inspecting the item.
  • Once you've levelled up your item to the maximum amount possible within its current Star Level, you can evolve the item.
  • An item typically starts out at 1 Star and can be evolved to up to 5 Stars.
  • The higher Star Levels get unlocked as you progress through the story, so you can't level up an item to 5 Stars right away.
  • Depending on an item's rarity and star level, you need various resources to evolve it, which can also be collected by completing missions, opening llamas or adding things to your Collection Book.

Homebase Power

The Homebase Power, which is shown at the upper left corner when you're in your base, determines the following aspects of your in-game mechanics:

• Fortitude (health and health regeneration)
• Offense (damage dealt with ranged and melee weapons)
• Resistance (shield and shield regeneration)
• Tech (trap damage, ability damage, gadget damage and healing done by healing traps)

As you can see, you can increase your damage by leveling up your Item Power or your Homebase Power - increasing Item Power only affects one specific item while increasing Homebase Power affects all your items. Your Homebase Power determines the missions you can join - you can't join certain missions if it's too low.

Ways To Increase Homebase Power

You can improve your Homebase Power in four different ways:

• Play with other players
  • This is the only method that will not increase your Homebase Power permanently but it can be helpful as long as you're in the mission.
  • If you choose a mission, click on "Fill" to do your mission with other players.
  • When other players join your mission, your Homebase Power will be temporarily increased depending on the other players' Homebase Power.
  • The more players join your mission, the stronger you collectively become.

• Upgrade your research
  • You can find your research in the "Command" section of your Homebase.
  • You can use Research Points to manually upgrade your Fortitude, Offense, Resistance and Tech, which also increases your overall Power.
  • As your Account Level increases, your Research Team will collect Research Points faster

• Level up your account
  • Your Account Level can be increased by:
    • Completing quests/missions
    • Activating XP boosts that can be gained by opening llamas and adding items to your Collection Book

• Upgrade your Survivors
  • Your Survivors can be found in the "Command" section of your Homebase
  • When organizing your Squads, it's advisable to enable "Autofill" as the game will automatically update your Squads with the best-fitting Survivors you have available.
  • Survivors have the same Rarities as Heroes, including Mythic
  • Survivors can be levelled up and evolved in the same way as other items but they are the only item that influences your Homebase Power
  • Survivors require Survivor XP to level up and evolve (as opposed to Hero XP and Schematic XP)

So these are various ways to increase your Power in Fortnite: Save the World! What else would you like to learn about this mode? Tell us in the comments!