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With more and more people playing hardcore, I thought it would be nice to share a bit of my experience. The whole HC experience changes a lot when you know you can get a character back up to 60 reallllllly fast.I have a lot of experience in power leveling. I mean, A LOT and this solution is for me the best way to get your friends safely to 60.
1) Lvl's 1-7
This is easy. Invite your pals and do the following:
- A2 zolten kulle quest. Go get the books that are in the tavern (the stack of 4 or 5 books). The go kill ZK (your friends should not come in, they just need quest xp)
- A2 last quest: kill belial for them (again only quest xp, dont let them come in the boss fight)
- A3 ghom quest: book next to lea in armory, then go kill GHOM
- a3 asmo: kill asmo
- a4 diablo: kill diablo
---> This will get them straight to lvl 7
There are other books and quests that can be done, but this is 10 minutes and I find the rest isnt even that exciting
2) 7-15
This is the boring part. Open a game for them after leoric and then,to be honest, power leveling before lvll 15 is useless. Your friends should be play solo. The best way IF you have money, is to play in mp 6-8 and buy a high dps weapon every 2 lvls. Count approx 1 hour. If you dont have money, well just play normally to lvl 15. Btw, xp on kill items help as well !
**** Monks can get a ruby from lvl 10 onwards (or is 11?)
******* From here on its mp 10 until hell ********
3) 15-20
act 2: Start a game at ZK quest and do the 2 zones in the archives of ZK (not the last one). Dont forget to get a helm with a ruby, this is how you get shit going fast.
4) 20-25
act 3: keeps lvl 2. This is the best zone, its n°3 xp per hour and its easy to always stay safe. Your mates must never come in a room where you are fighting. always one room behind.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @ Lvl 23 equip the set of Cain + ruby !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5) 25 - 50:
@lvl 25 go to nightmare difficulty (diablo kill has already been done) and start doing a3 keeps 2 until lvl 50. This is crazy fast if you have the cain set and a good ruby.
6) 50-60:
at 50 kill diablo Nightmare and gogo hell a3 keeps 2. The real factor is how high of an mp you can hold. Be very careful cause mp 10 hell is pretty dangerous if your not geared for it. Id say a good DPS to Mp level is: DPS required = mp lvl * 10k, IE mp 10 = 100 k dps. mp 9= 90k dps, etc.
7)60:
kill diablo hell, welcome to inferno.
A few things:
- The ideal gear for lvl 15-60 is cain set (lv23 onwards) and MAX vitality. nothing else matters, stack vitality as much as possible. Shield also of course.
- If you want to go faster you can do arreat and rakkis, but the danger is greater.
- Not all classes are good for powerlevling. barbs and monks are not great for example. The best is WD, and sorc/DH are good too.
- If you dont have vocal, use a signal (like flag drop) so that your party can tell you when something is going wrong.
- If you re really rich, get a leoric (lvl 14 required)
- Do all bosses on mp 0, it doesnt change anything to do them on higher mp.
I guess thats about it, dont hesitate if you have any extra questions. Im also open to your advice and will edit Op if you have some extra info
Thanks for reading!
PS: I know this might seem trivial to some of you, but I definitily believe some people could benefit from knowing this!
PS2: A lot of people disagreed on the duration of each step i put in, so I took it out !
