Diablo III - Speed leveling up a new character (solo/season 2/no follower)

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Published on March 15, 2015 7:34:04 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhfXszcyhmU

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Diablo III (2012)

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I say "speed leveling" even though I'm not doing it it as fast as I can... but it IS sort of speed leveling if you compare it to the normal speed of leveling up solo when you don't have special gear. Stopped at level 66 though, got too bored. The most boring part about D3 is leveling up characters (and I've done it soooo many times). The last 4 levels were done later (not recorded of course). I upgraded my gear and gems a bit and played Torment V, and it took about 1 hour to go from 66 to 70. I know people can level from 1-70 in like 20-30 minutes, but that's with help from other players. Personally, I've never been boosted (or used any of the followers) and don't want to be.

Gained 55 levels in the one and only rift I bothered to do. Backtracked a lot as I wanted to kill most enemies just to see how many levels I could get. Of course way faster to just teleport to an outside map, do bounties, or start a new rift after already clearing most of the rift. But... no rush...

So, I needed a new character (only play Monk and have all slots with level 70s, so when a season ends, I have to remove one every time I want to make a new one for the new season) as I have a build I want to play. I always do that - a new character for each build.

My starting gear was an ancient 4k 2hander with the exp rune (only lvl 25), a hellfire ring and an amulet. I also had Cain's set in the inventory that requires level 23 (red gem in head piece), but didn't put it on until maybe around level 40 or something. I know it's more efficient if using a follower with nice gear on, or even better gear for my Monk like stuff with reduced level, legendary gems, etc... but I was in no rush. Still much faster than "normal speed". And of course, used a bunch of Paragon points.

Whenever you see a fade-transition, it's just me either quickly doing something else IRL (phone, toilet break, getting a drink...) or going to town to craft something. I played for 51 minutes, so it's about 3 minutes that has been edited out. Some fun points: got to level 40 in 4 mins, and level 60 in 25 mins.

08:10 - Time to change my build a bit. Been using what the game has giving me by default up to now, so no passives etc. Took a bit over 1 min, wasn't sure what to use.
10:22 - What I chose didn't cut it, time to change it again. I'm keeping this build all the way to level 70.
20:10 - As I just died, I went to town to quickly craft a couple of gear pieces, then lowered the difficulty. First time ever I use this difficulty option in the game (while playing that is, not the one outside).
27:57 - Time for a gear upgrade, so went to town again.
30:40 - Killed a Rainbow Goblin and went to Whimsyshire.
41:53 - Trying to kill the goblin with EPs (like with most mobs), but hard when he keeps running away :)
44:26 - Illmarin comes online, the only IRL friend (and the only one in my friends list) who still plays D3 (but only HC so can't play with him as I'm only SC), everyone else quit 1-2 months after D3 was released.

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