How long does it take to reach level 100 to play Diablo 4? Joseph Piepiora, deputy director of games at Blizzard, already gave the answer back in April this year - "It takes 150 hours or more for the average player to reach the level limit." ”
Seeing this answer, I believe that the first reaction of players is "liver pain". In this "brush game" where krypton gold also does not solve the problem of experience, leveling up has always been a difficult thing.
But in order to become the first full-level player in the full server, countless users who purchased the Diablo 4 Deluxe Edition and the Ultimate Edition opened the challenge after entering the Early Access server on June 2. And after 54 hours of continuous fighting, the first level 100 player in the full server was finally born.
Player Rob2628 is an anchor who has been working tirelessly to open the Rush level challenge since the release of Diablo 4 Early Access. Unlike the speedrun challenges of other games, Diablo 4 players are comparing endurance, and Rob2628 grasps it. After two days and nights of fighting, the barbarian he stabbed became the first level 100 character in the full server.
In addition, there are four other players Draelin, rengar666, KlapopjeKOP, and Willemh who have successively rushed to the level. However, in this brutal rush challenge, except for the first place, the other results are somewhat meaningless. After many years, everyone will only remember that Rob2628 was the first Diablo 4 player to reach level 100.
However, although Rob2628 made history, there was still an element of trickery in it. For example, use some existing game bugs to brush up on experience. Some players shared their existing brushing experience:
"Teleport to the inner garden of the ruined city of Rakhardt Fortress, there is a power copy of a workshop called Mogan below, enter the back running map, 100% will encounter two waves of elite monsters, each wave of elite monsters is about fifteen or so, drop gold and add a huge amount of experience, after playing two waves of elite monsters leave the power copy, after returning to the copy door, ESC leaves the game, and then continues to enter the game, repeating the above operation."
The bug may be fixed in the future, but there is no official dispute with Rob2628's achievements. Therefore, the player record of reaching the level limit in 54 hours is likely not to be broken.
It is important to emphasize that Rob2628 only set a record for ordinary mode. The challenge of the expert mode is continuing. Wudijo, a player at level 87, is the fastest person to level up in the hardcore mode at this stage. However, it is difficult to say whether he will come out on top, because there are still thousands of people chasing this goal.
Blizzard has been paving the way for the expert mode of Diablo 4 for a long time, and the deletion of files after death alone has firmly captured the attention of players. Before the game started, Blizzard had already said that the IDs of the top 1,000 players who had risen to the full level would be engraved on Lilith's statue and placed on display in Blizzard headquarters and BlizzCon, which also made players fight hard like chicken blood.
From a player's perspective, leveling up in Expert mode is a meaningful and valuable player achievement. But also because you can't die the whole time, the challenger has to be careful to push the map, and it is naturally relatively conservative to fight, and it is completely understandable that the speed is slower.
According to the efficiency of the big guys, the first level 100 player in the expert mode is in these 24 hours. Given the strong performance of the current version of the Barbarian class, the first level 100 character in the Blind Guess Expert mode is also a Barbarian.
And Blizzard was already working on balancing the barbarians and other classes. I don't know how many levels have the players who logged in to Early Access have now reached?