Thanks for playing! Yeah, you have to dash around to try to get your XP, but I think it only takes like 2 pickups from the first mob to get the level and there's always chance of a second weapon which makes it much easier to pick up. We didn't have as much time as we wanted to balance the game out more. If you max out the weapons early and they're in their evolved form, it makes it almost too easy and speed doesn't matter at that point.