So I start scouring every YouTube video I can find on leveling in Diablo 3. But it’s still noticable to the point where by the time I get Haedrig’s Gift, I’m calling it a night. Season 14 comes along, and I’m down to 2.5-3.5 hours getting to 70, which is remarkably fast compared to most players. What good is leveling an hour faster if I still have to spend an hour leveling up my real class after? Why not just start with my real class? But I don’t really want to play a Necromancer. I switched to Necromancer, and the leveling came so much easier. Only at that point do I notice he’s playing a Necromancer, whereas I’m playing a Demon Hunter. And he’s talking about how, yeah, this is normal, whereas I’m thinking “how?”. Plus, I notice he’s Level 30 by the time I hit Level 12. He’s hitting 70 within 2.5 hours, and it’s taking me 3.5-4 hours to hit 70. I did find one player who was willing to practice, and who worked with me, and who was willing to help me learn Season Start leveling tactics.Īt this point, I was still naive about a lot of the leveling tactics and their nuances. But, out of all of that did come some good news. And more Diablo community players who hated me for giving terrible advice. I tried again next season, and the same thing occurred. We were level 30+, but the two who didn’t practice were still level 12 & 14 an hour into the season. The thing was, it did work for those of us who were doing it. So, I’m getting a bunch of them yelling at me how they would have been better off just leveling normally, and how this was worthless advice. Season 10 starts, and we end up hitting 70 roughly 6.5 hours into the season, which is worse than the typical 5-5.5 hours it takes to hit 70. Sure, they’ll watch videos and read posts, but like myself, might not understand what exactly needs to be done. I post LFG, get a few players to start the season with, and I share the post on how to do it. So, here I am, going into Season 10, thinking how this new technique is going to save me at least half an hour. I continued to practice it, until I understood exactly what snapshot leveling was, and how to perform it with relative success. So, I kept at it, and kept at it, until one day I notice a massive leap in the early levels. Mind you, there are no videos at all on either of these at the time, only the word of other people who have confirmed these methods worked. And I tried what I thought was snapshot leveling, and thought that this just wasn’t working. Leveling with the Halls of Agony blades was just too difficult/annoying for me. At one point, groups were even getting down to as low as 90 minutes.īut they were super secret about their methods they used for leveling.Įventually, some people did some investigation, and found out they were using the blades in Halls of Agony 1, and also snapshot leveling some of the early levels. Leveling was just not fun.Īt this point in the game, the very fastest levelers were hitting 70 in under 2 hours. And yet, I was always hitting 70 5+ hours into the season, and it was frustrating me. I did what probably most people do, look up the popular Diablo streamers and try to follow their advice. I had taken a break in a few of the earlier seasons, coming back around Season 7. My journey into speed leveling started around Season 10. Doing it solo, and running as other classes helps, but even then, eventually you’ll master those as well. (Our group placed 30th in the Americas.)īut you can really only run Sprinter so many times before you learn the campaign and will never fail it again (bar bugs). Season 1 was probably the most fun I’ve ever had with Diablo 3, because nobody really knew what they were doing when it came to speed running the campaign, including us. The conquest Sprinter was really the only thing keeping me interested in Diablo 3 at this point, because it was a puzzle to solve in how to beat the campaign in under an hour. So by the time RoS finally came out, I honestly was getting burnt out with it, even though the game had become remarkably better. Like other players, I have played D3 since it first came out, and put a lot of hours into vanilla. That’s most likely never going to be the case again. While luck has always played a part, there’s a reason why the same people have always landed in the first 100 players to 70, even if they whiffed on Kadala and their Level Reduce Weapon. So while skill is still involved in the leveling process, luck will now play a bigger factor in who has the best season start. Not everyone will want to use their cache, and the Altar removes a significant chunk of time in the leveling process. With the Altar now becoming permanent, the leveling competition is pretty much forever gone. This is just a retrospective on my Diablo 3 experience through the ins and outs of speed leveling. As we’re still waiting for information on the current season end date, and next season start.
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