The fastest player inside Way of exile 2 it looks like he’s playing as a music visualizer. Lightning bolts ping-ponge across the screen in sync with the breakneck beats he’s been blasting for the past nine hours Pull. He’s racing to be the first player in the world to reach the maximum level of the action RPG, and the competition is fierce.
Andrew “TidesofTime” Biessener is level 98, just two levels away from finishing at level 100. And so are the eight other players right behind him, according to the official ranking. Experience gains are glaring so far in the match, but he could take the crown this weekend if he continues at this pace.
A former prof Dota 2 And Hearthstone player, Biessener defines what is professional PoE2 It looks like it’s in early access at this stage, and it appears to be a screen full of lightning bolts. His Stormweaver Sorceress is a channel for serious shock damage and speed. Where other classes have to risk getting hit while aiming arrows or charging into monsters, Biessener’s build does the work for him, allowing him to teleport through maps efficiently. All he does is spam the Spark ability and watch as thousands of blue arrows clear the dungeon before him.
Biessener took a short break on Thursday to continue running his arrangement on stream, but don’t be put off by its expansive skill tree. It’s actually quite simple: everything runs on mana. One of PoE 2s passive skills overload your shock damage based on how much mana you have, and the Mind over matter node in the skill tree changes your mana in your life. Because there is no longer a need for a normal life, Biessener also runs along the node that reduces it to one and makes you immune to chaos damage, the scariest damage type in the game. He’s actually more mana than sorceress.
There are five other Sorceress players in the top 10 using a similar, if not identical, build. That’s the power of finding a single attribute – in a game overflowing with them – that does it all. Lucky loot drops don’t even factor into this level of play. Buying items from other players is the only way to find the perfect gear, meaning the race is largely a marathon of clearing dungeons as quickly as possible. One Reddit user added up all the different classes on the leaderboard of the top 1,000 players and it is overwhelming Stormreaver sorceress.
But the second place finisher is actually an Invoker monk who is about an hour behind Biessener, prompting him to continue. “I can’t stop because the Invoker doesn’t want to stop,” Biessener said in his stream on Friday.
As a Biessener Steam profile It’s an indication that it took him more than 260 hours to get this far. I’m not quite at world record pace yet after 60 hours with a level 66 witch, but there’s always next time.
Way of exile 2 is available in early access on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series