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Rank #1 Playtimes
How much do you need to play to reach the higher rankings on the leadeboards? How about the highest rank? Heisenberg shared a post over at the official forums with some data he collected. The resulsts are quite impressive. Check the original post, or the quote below.
Rank #1 Monk - Scrapz GR62
Paragon 1086
Averaging ~21.5b XP/hour
Averaging 13.1 hours PER DAY since S3 started
Rank #1 Barb - Tonydihn GR60
Paragon 991
Averaging ~14.4b XP/hour
Averaging 13 hours PER DAY since S3 started
Rank #1 Crusader - Hades GR61
Paragon 1041
Averaging ~21b XP/hour
Averaging 11.1 hours PER DAY since S3 started
Rank #1 Demon Hunter - balaM GR62
Paragon 978
Averaging ~13.2b XP/hour
Averaging 13.3 hours PER DAY since S3 started
Rank #1 Witch Doctor - Karib GR59
Paragon 951
Averaging ~15.2b XP/hour
Averaging 10.1 hours PER DAY since S3 started
Rank #1 Wizard- Necro GR63
Paragon 905
Averaging ~6b XP/hour
Averaging 19.8 hours PER DAY since S3 started
That last time isn't a typo, Necro has played almost 20 hours a day since S3 started. (probably shared acct looking at his class portfolio) But basically you can see both the discrepancy on time played vs paragon level. Some have a specific leech class in Crusader/WD/Monk, but it is all rolled up in the hours per day.
Firebird's Finery Revisited
With the tweaks to the Tal Rasha Elements and the new Delsere Magnum Opus, the good old Firebird's Finery which was used for quite a while fell out of flavour. MHM has revisited it and discusses some uses for this mid-tier set, as well as talking about some factors to consider when having to use it - usually when still farming for the other end-game sets - and item variations. Check it out!
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Posted Jun 5, 2015woops :< accidental post
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Posted Jun 5, 2015Sounds like necro bots lol
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Posted Jun 5, 2015Wait until someone has 26 hours per day
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Posted Jun 5, 2015WOW those gaming hours.
Ok i can understand streamers.
But non-stream players, I just have to ask whats going on with real life of those guys?
Isn't hanging with your mates, having sex with girls,doing real job, working out in gym more important??
On other hand i would understand if there would be some money involved in this.
But in D3 there is absolutely no award for achieving TOP 1 for solo or group.
And with no reward what would motivate someone to invest so much time in virtual game when in meantime you can make a lot of more money doing something else??
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Posted Jun 5, 2015And? ranking doesnt bring anything, no reward or so, why waste 13h a day on it? specially if you need start AGAIN each season?
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Posted Jun 5, 2015Some people just want to play video games all day and through life circumstances are capable of doing so. For example, Gaby played 18 hours/day long before he started streaming - he just wants to play the game non-stop. This is a very small percentage of people though - outliers exist in everything.
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Posted Jun 5, 2015Because they want to win.
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Posted Jun 5, 2015are you trying to be a sexist caricature or what
you left out the part about football and beer
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Posted Jun 5, 2015Those are some eye popping numbers from my perspective even when ignoring Necro's statistics.
Cool video MeatheadMikhail. I still have Firebird though I haven't visited Wizard in a while either >_>
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Posted Jun 5, 201513+ hours a day? Jesus, get a life already. Or a job. Go see what the sun looks like. Go get laid. Move out of moms basement. What a waste of a life.
*edit*
I should add that having no life is the only legit option for these players. The other thing they could be doing is account sharing or running bots, both of which are against the ToS, and they should be perma-banned if thats the case.
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Posted Jun 5, 2015it's likely they have more than one person playing the character
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Posted Jun 6, 201513h per day ... do something f***ing useful to society ! Kind of hard to work 50h a week and still seeing useless people.
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Posted Jun 6, 2015Thanks, glad you like it. Sadly Firebird's is currently relegated to speed farming 40-42 with perfect gear, but it does it well. Tals/Delsere's all the way for high tiers.
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Posted Jun 9, 2015That firebird video is TERRIBLE. It completely disregards the revelation chumly did in Season 2 which pushed Firebirds 5+ GRift levels and let you facetank.
Seriously, if you are going to talk about changes then at least do your homework and include the progression of the spec. No Halo, no flame blades, no APD, no clue.