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Criminal Mastermind achievement in DC Universe Online

Criminal Mastermind

Achieve level 30 as a hero mentored by Lex Luthor.

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How to unlock the Criminal Mastermind achievement

  • GoW ButtersGoW Butters
    10 May 2016 07 May 2016
    Level 30 is the maximum level you can reach with one character. For this version of the achievement you must select to be a villain and your mentor must be 'Lex Luthor' when creating a character.
    Yes the description is wrong, Lex is a villain not a hero.

    The quickest way to get to level 30 from what I've discovered so far is just play through the main storyline missions and nothing else. Don't do any side missions, or explore missions from Booster Gold, or Races or Arena's or anything like that, just follow the main story missions. This is because once you finish the last story mission you will already be around level 26-28 and on completion you receive enough XP to automatically upgrade you to lvl 30 (See video), thus earning you the achievement.

    Now on your first character you'll probably find it took you ages to get to level 30, but by the time you know the story and where you are going you will be aiming to finish a character in 10-15 hours. This is dependent on how effectively you can use fast travel to get to where you want quicker and your skill level. Dying isn't the end of the world because in most cases you can just travel back to where you died and carry on from where you left off, but it is annoying and a waste of time.

    To save some time (30 mins to an hour) when in a safe house and you just completed a mission and you have received a new one, just quickly check your journal and the mission details to see where you are needed to go. I say this because if it's another safe house you can fast travel from any safe point to safe point using the teleporter and it will save you time as you don't have to travel half way across the map.

    Note: When you get to level 9 you can spend a skill point and unlock the ability to use super speed. (Hold the cn_RSc while in speed/flight mode to activate)

    Note 2: You get a free XP booster near the start of the game, this is actually useful because you can make your character stronger in shorter time to help you get through missions faster. Use it when you're around level 11-15 as missions come in thick and fast and you get a lot of XP for doing them.

    All in all the missions aren't very challenging and by the second play-through you'll probably only die a handful of times. The only hard bit of the achievement is fighting the repetitiveness of doing the same campaign 6 times. At least switching between hero and villain does mix it up a little.

    Also thanks to PhantomSiren for helping me with info to compile this solution.

    Have fun!! smile

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    VanGekoi choose Luthor and Villian and got the Joker achievement Oo
    Posted by VanGeko on 13 Jan 22 at 11:34
    bloodlands 666I'm still level 28 after last mentor mission
    Posted by bloodlands 666 on 01 Feb 22 at 17:33
    wildwest08Just a heads up that after the level skip with the new event in January 2023 you have to be level 10. It took me about an hour to get there. After I did the level skip I had to restart the game and log back in to the level 30 character to get the achievement to pop
    Posted by wildwest08 on 12 Jan 23 at 23:09
    Arsenic 17Can someone specify which characters are eligible for this achievement? Seems like an obvious missing part of this solution.
    Posted by Arsenic 17 on 11 Jan at 16:21
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