powerlevel

Verb

powerlevel (third-person singular simple present powerlevels, present participle (US) powerleveling or (UK) powerlevelling, simple past and past participle (US) powerleveled or (UK) powerlevelled)

1. (intransitive, slang) To play so as to advance levels in a game as quickly as possible.
   • Returning to the convention area later we find EQ and its players have reclaimed the PCs, presenting a row of T-shirt prints ranging from gangsta rap to Ghost In The Shell. Some play side by side, some frantically text distant servermates; others are powerlevelling with near-catatonic detachment.2004 June, “Lost in convention: What happens when thousands of EverQuest fans meet in Las Vegas? We find out…”, in Edge, number 137, Bath, Somerset: Future Publishing Ltd, →ISSN, page 092, column 1
   • Whilst fighting close to your mentor (who must be around 5 levels higher than you) your attack and defense ratings are boosted - temporarily making you of a similar level. XP is still proportionate to your “real” level though, so don’t expect to be able to powerlevel this way.2004 September, Eliot Fish, “Online Tips and Tactics: City of Heroes”, in David Wildgoose, editor, PC PowerPlay, number 103, Redfern, N.S.W.: Next Publishing Pty Ltd, →ISSN, page 110
2. (slang, transitive) To cause (a game character or another player) to advance levels in a game as quickly as possible.
   • But they did all shell out big bucks to have simulated lives in place of actual lives. They just don’t want to do this in PUBLIC. Which is what an on-line game is. You can find plenty of geeks willing to justify publically^([sic]) powerlevelling an orc avatar, but how many will you find willing to...2003 February 10, Tyson, “Re: Hard to believe....”, in SlashNOT; quoted in “The End of Similization As We Know It”, in Matthew Strebe, Michael Moncur, Charles Perkins, The Best of SlashNOT...
   • If you’re busy trying to “powerlevel” your Sims out of their social rating slump, then you’re not likely to sit and watch conversations or dramas unfolds, and if you just want to pump up your environment score then it makes sense to randomly cram your Sim houses with all the highest rated stuff...2004 December, Timothy C. Best, “The Sims 2”, in David Wildgoose, editor, PC PowerPlay, number 106, Redfern, N.S.W.: Next Publishing Pty Ltd, →ISSN, page 72, column 3