The fastest way to rank up guns in Warzone

A Call of Duty weapon is only as good as the attachments you equip it with, and gaining new ones to use in Warzone is done through leveling and ranking up the guns as you play with them.

In the classic Warzone game, players found a home in the Plunder mode for ranking up guns. Battle royale players undoubtedly downloaded Warzone and began looking for the mode only to find it missing, so new methods were found.

It’s difficult to level weapons in battle royale since the fights are sometimes few and far between. Dropping into Al Mazrah in BR and trying to level a specific gun is a true pain. But thankfully, there is another way.

Here’s the best way to grind weapon levels for your guns in Warzone.

Best way to level up guns in Warzone

Rejoice. In season two of Warzone, Resurgence mode returned. While it’s not as lucrative as Plunder for weapon XP, it’s easily the best option for getting lots of kills and ranking up new guns. Thankfully, Plunder also joined in season three, but Resurgence is great for this method as well.

Just pop a double weapon XP token and drop into Resurgence games on Ashika Island or Vondel to start racking up kills. Before you know it, you’ll be able to max out your weapons with the best attachments in the game. Now that Plunder is back, that mode is also yours for the taking.

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Aside from Resurgence, DMZ mode is the second-best place to rank up weapons for Warzone if you do not own Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer. In the same way that Invasion mode in MW2 is great for ranking up, DMZ is the best way to do so in Warzone due to the amount of AI enemies you can kill for XP.

The new extraction-based mode is kind of an XP farm. No matter what you’re doing in the sandbox of Al Mazrah, you are gaining XP by finishing missions, clearing out Strongholds, and killing enemies whether they be AI or other players. Equip the weapon that you want to level up and head into DMZ. But be careful because you might lose it if you die and it’s not insured.

Doing objectives, getting kills, and extracting successfully in DMZ will reward you with a massive amount of XP. It’s risky business, but you can do it if you’re ready to grind.

DMZ is a good place to unlock weapons to use, too. If you find a gun in DMZ and then extract with it, you immediately unlock access to that weapon without having to unlock it by either leveling up a platform or leveling up your prestige rank.

The other best way to level weapons is by spamming XP tokens in MW2 multiplayer, but that requires owning the base game for that. Free-to-play players will have the most ease leveling guns in DMZ, but if you own MW2, it’s worth heading into a small-map playlist, using weapon XP tokens, and grinding out levels there.

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You can get more XP for your equipped gun in both modes by using Decoy Grenades and throwing them in the vicinity of enemies, but that’s really only viable in MW2 due to your ability to constantly respawn.