Ambitious Diablo III player maxes Paragon Level within weeks
By Tim Colwill on September 7, 2012 at 10:02 am
Despite the fact that Blizzard only announced the 100 bonus Paragon Levels a fortnight ago, an amibitious Barbarian by the name of Alkaizer has already maxed it out and, thus, hit level cap again.
The key to his success is apparently getting an experience gem in your helm to provide +27% bonus experience, a movement-speed bonus of around 24%, and constantly running through the following: Core of Arreat, Tower of the Damned (level l1), Arreat Crater (level l2), Fields of Slaughter (Bridge of Corsaic – WP), The Keep Depths level 2 (From level 1 WP). Here’s a YouTube video explaining it all.
Alkaizer’s recommended build is located here, and his character itself can be checked out here. Damn.
Source: PCGamesN
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and here’s one tab of his stash after all of this. his other tabs are the same.
http://i.imgur.com/nctyV.jpg
for anyone interested, I calculated that gear to be worth around 1 billion gold, which is around $1200-$2000.
another interesting thing is that he purposefully has worse gear than possible as he needs the tornados generated to hit a few times to give him fury (which allows WoTB to get off cooldown quicker).
I take its a combination of smart (efficient) levelling, damn good gear and a LOT of free time.
ralphwiggum,
yeah, his route and technique runs circles around all the others out there. he’s not only worked out a good route for maximum mobs and elites, he doesn’t bother picking up rares. the calculations put the time taken to do this as significantly longer which wasn’t on optimised runs.
on top of this his gear is good enough that he can run through everything and have it die whilst still generating fury. fortunately I believe you could do something very similar with a lot less gold (prob <50m).
and yes, free time. he goes to college so I don't imagine he's been sleeping much.
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college student spends time on a game he loves whilst finding hundreds, possibly thousands of dollars worth of items.
It never ceases to amaze me how some people can break a game down like that to just hit thay level cap. item etc.
I must be getting too old :-(
He estimated that he had spent about $5000 of his battle.net balance buying gear (which he already had from selling other items … o.O)
Jigoku,
damn! my estimates were all current as of about a week ago, he must have bought a bunch of his gear earlier.
would be interesting to find out how much he could have earned from selling all the stuff he picked up on the way to 100. but apparently he plans on giving it all away.
People still play Diablo 3? lol..
he said on his live stream last night he was giving those 3 tabs of legendarys away tonight
these are the kind of people that die while gaming.
i would feel like blowing my head off too if i had to run the same boring levels over and over.
why the fuck do people like you bother writing words on the internet?
and that’s a serious question yeapal. do you think it contributes to the discussion?
if you think it does, you have an extremely twisted grasp on what contributes to a discussion.
if you don’t, why do you do it?
Seems to be one in every Diablo 3 comments section. Just look here:
http://games.on.net/2012/09/diablo-iii-developers-outline-plans-to-tweak-crowd-control-abilities/#comments
I can understand that some people feel that the game didn’t live up to their expectations. Doesn’t mean that the game is crap though. In saying that, never argue with an idiot – they’ll bring you down to their level then beat you with experience.
skitzor,
Actually, I posted that simply to bait you, skitzor. You’re the #1 D3 fanboy on GON, so it’s always good for a laugh.
Relax, take a deep breath or two.
glad I’m not the only one who noticed….
and i had a good laugh
so you were trolling. did you know people get banned for trolling on these forums?
also, you’re telling me to relax? is that all you have to say? you think I’m here frothing at the mouth over your comments? damn son, grow up.
Shhhh, it’s ok. Shhh, go have a nap.
diablo3 is a terrible game
on its own right its an ok game but if you compare it to the other diablo games
its down right shocking
in no way is it worth the 10 years they spent developing it
to many fingers in the design pie
to many large and board changes to the core game late in development
to much pandering to the lowest common denominator
not enough support (were is pvp?, think back to the launch fiasco)
amazing random level generation wasted on over zealous seed control
making every zone 99% the same as the last time you were there
nothing to do after finishing the story
unless your playing hardcore the game takes no risks and encourages stupidity
there is no punishment for playing badly or making horrible decisions
D1 dropped all your equipped gear and gold on the floor at the feet of the hoard that killed you, after desperately finding some makeshift gear to go fight monsters that killed you in your good gear, is somewhere in that struggle you realize “dying sucks” and to make sure you avoid that as much as possible
it had monsters that permanently dropped your hp by 1 with each hit
its shrines were just as often a curse as a blessing
most players would reach level 10(ish) before then even found their first blue item
and then you needed a scroll to identify it (or pay cain 100 gold per item)
then after you identify the item its might be good, bad, harmful or cursed
a stark difference to D3 where everything is just handed to you on a silver plate
I played Diablo 1 for 8 years
Diablo 2 for 5 to 6 years
Diablo 3 for 3 weeks
Diablo 3 dropped the ball
naduk,
that’s fair enough, and I can understand that you personally didn’t enjoy it. I don’t think you can call it terrible just because you didn’t like it.
the funny thing about most of the comments you have made is that things like that are what the large majority hate. in a patch they changed it so dying came with a cost. typically it meant a large repair bill, having to run back to where you were and the elites you were fighting were back at full health. this was absolutely hated. the amount of threads on the diablo subreddit about how shitty this is was amazing.
it was also much harder and unforgiving on release. this was also met with extreme hate from the overwhelming majority of the community. through patches the difficulty has quite rapidly reduced. once again, the majority of people say that this is how a diablo game should be. easy.
also, there have been a lot of changes since release. item changes, skill changes, late game changes that give you something to do after finishing the story line. it’s no uber event, but it’s just like cow/baal running.
Almost true… try joining a co-op game using a lvl 3 character and ending up in the Fields of Misery. I’ve never died faster in a video game.
And while I’d be the first one to demand an expansion to add to the story. I never thought Diablo 1 and 2 had much end game to it either other than to do it all over again in a harder difficulty.
D3 also solved my desire to hack items (offline play of course) in D2 by implementing the AH. I’m not one for farming for loot or gold so being able to acquire better items another way worked wonders.