Diablo 4 isn't even officially out yet, and already someone has picked up the gauntlet thrown down by developer Blizzard and slapped the world with it. The company, in their hubris, declared that the first 1000 players to reach level 100 on Hardcore mode (permadeath) would have their names immortalised, carved into the stone of a statue of antagonist Lillith... which will likely end up haunting the lobby or something.
Available since the 2nd in Early Access, streamer cArn_ (along with an elite squad, the members of which on track to occupy the second, third, and fourth spots) has already become the first player to reach level 100, announcing the victory on Twitter. In this moment of glory, he ascended still further, confirmed as GOAT by Diablo community director Adam Fletcher.
cArn_ achieved the feat while playing as a Barbarian, the class deemed weakest by many in pre-release beta testing. Blizzard apparently disagreed with that assessment, nerfing the berserker still further in a recent patch. For context, Blizzard estimated getting to max level would take 150 hours, and with the infernal race beginning on the 2nd of June, that's a heroic (if medically inadvisable) effort, no doubt.
Let this feat serve as an example of two things; you should never let the haters get you down, and Barb is good, actually. Tell us what you think in the comments section below.
[source twitter.com]
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I played warrior in diablo 1, barbarian in diablo 3, and plan to play as barbarian too in diablo 4 😃
Still undecided whether to play barbarian or paladin in diablo 2 remake, probably barbarian 😂
I’m playing whirlwind barb and even after the nerf it’s still a beast
Congrats to those who are first just because payed access early.
I don’t think he did it alone. Wasn’t it several people on the account. And they ran a dungeon exploit to get XP faster.
Some life these guys have ....
Does this mean that some people have played the game near non-stop since release?
I'm sure his mother is a very proud woman.
@djlard on the other hand it's no surprise that one of the top path of exile players was the first to hit it considering it is basically his job considering he used to play starcraft and dota professionally. But yes I agree, Blizzard shouldn't be holding races that you pay for early access to. That is not the fault of people who wanted to push for the world first though.
@Vacuumator if it coop group with Zizu, then they played on first day 26+ hrs in a row those guys are cooking hard.
@PsBoxSwitchOwner that definitely is guy who was first, but this is about Hardcore. First ever 100lvl was Softcore who had team and used 1x specific location for max XP. But you take whatever games gives you.
As inspiring as the Kardashians.
@StylesT Considering its their job and they make stupid amounts of money from it then yeah some life.
@djlard people who bought early access didn't know there was a race so nobody not even blizzard did what you claim. Which does make it unfair to those who bought standard. In fact had blizzard notified people of the race when pre orders opened, it would have actually made things fair. Sure they are charging for a race but at least you know that upon choosing your purchase, so it's your choice to handicap yourself.
@PsBoxSwitchOwner this was always going to be the way that would roll. Part of why I personally detest these “immortalize world first” events.
I like how FFXIV handles it, I that they basically don’t handle it. You might get a social media recognition, if they determine you didn’t cheat, and that’s that. Players might brag about being the first streamers to get world first on twitch or what not. But the game itself wont permanently promote or put anyone on a pedestal.
@Cutmastavictory I didn't chose physical is released 4 days after. So actually Blizzard is making unfair conditions by NOT releasing all versions at same time.
@djlard you're doing that thing where you aren't reading instead of just disagreeing to hold on to your position. You chose the physical release. Physical to my knowledge usually never has an early release. But again, the race is unfair because it wasn't told to anyone until last week. So people could have made a different choice. But you seem like you were going to choose physical anyways despite knowing digital for early release. So that means you wanted to wait, you were in no rush, so you wouldn't have raced anyways. If you know about d3 and poe, they have been having races for a decade. This isn't anything new, it's just the first race that blizzard has promoted and given a prize for.
I wish I had that kind of free time.
I’m lucky to play a game for an hour per day on weekdays.
Game is incredible. Kudos to those who can stand playing a game for 24 hours straight.
Lol! All the butthurt comments, relax, it's a videogame. Congerratulations, a winner is you, bad dude!
The final scene from the South Park Guitar Hero episode comes to mind. Congratulations!
@Cutmastavictory I was not going to race anyway, but here it is about principle. Of course I've chosen physical, because digital is only necessary evil if there is no disc version, but that is another story... We can agree that making race, where some racers can start a few minutes earlier if they pay bigger starting fee, is unfair. And that is the only thing I wanted to say.
@djlard I would usually agree with you but getting a physical copy for Diablo seems pointless. Their is no offline mode so once the servers go down the disc is worthless.
@Ott3r_Nonsense I know, but still much faster install than downloading...
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