How are people hitting 85 in like 10 hours?

I just curious. I was watching few streams and saw allot of top streamers doing new builds and hitting like 85ish in like 10 hours and 93ish in like 24 hours played.

I level pretty fast I thought, doing like 3 hours to cruel and maybe like 8-10 hours to like 70'ish lol. But these guys are hauling ass. Got to be a strategy?

I usually kill any larger pack, but Im thinking these guys just sprint through content.

Good racing knowledge and knowing what needs to be done exactly in each act to minimize time wasted. It's definitely doable.

Ok I found this post from a guy who hit 100 I guess pretty fast. See what you guys think about these strats, seems legit.

I just dinged 100 on Perandus SC, here is the gist of it:
1-30 kill only blue packs and massive packs, skip all sidequests except quicksilver flask and never. stop. running. Kill shit when your quicksilver is on cooldown, run otherwise.
30-60 transition into a useful build and be more careful with your judgement to kill mobs. If your build is strong at this point feel free to kill any decent pack in 1-2 shots, if not just keep running and farm XP. Whenever you feel low in power go back and pick up passive points.
Always try to stay a couple levels under the zone level in 1-60. If you need to grind XP do it in the highest possible of one of the following zones: ledge, riverways, city of sarn, docks, dried lake.
60-75 farm dried lake, except on day 1 in a new league where you get stuck if you don't immediately start building a map pool.
75-90 map anything, running your highest non-red map you can afford to roll.
90-95 try to build a high map pool and farm mad currency.
95-100 buy t12-14s constantly and run them non-stop. If you have a very fast clearing setup (e.g. bower + support) you will get similar XP in gorge, canyon (yes, a 75 map is competitive in xp with an 80 map even at level 99, just because you kill so much at once), arid lake and plateau. This stage costs a lot of currency and you will pull your hairs out if you ever end up dying.

Credit to Nightcracker on reddit at this post@ https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/4a9nrs/how_do_people_level_so_damn_fast/

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鬼殺し wrote:

Solid.

Sounds boring as batshit to me but hey, batshit makes fireballs in the right hands.

Nice AD&D reference :)

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鬼殺し wrote:

Solid.

Sounds boring as batshit to me but hey, batshit makes fireballs in the right hands.

Even getting to 90 for the challenge seems like a lot of grind to me, but of course, look at the company name....can't say they didn't warn us.

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鬼殺し wrote:

Solid.

Sounds boring as batshit to me but hey, batshit makes fireballs in the right hands.

Yeah.

The only thing that troubles me is that after level 90, everything is boring as (bat)shit, except for, depending on your build, Atziri, Uber, and some map bosses.

OK I made a whacky Flicker COC build which things are not boring for, but it dies a lot ;).

1) Concentration Boosting Stimulants/Drugs (Adderall/Ritalin/Caffeine Strips/Energy Drinks)
2) Adult Diapers
3) SSD
4) Expensive Self-Built PC
5) Expensive High Quality Internet
6) Day Off from Work/School

Here is Raiz commentating on a run to Cruel in 2 hours, it should give you some insight and tips for efficient leveling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NsSZSDSVWQ

An easier way: Quit caring how fast you can get to 85.

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Varkorium wrote:

Here is Raiz commentating on a run to Cruel in 2 hours, it should give you some insight and tips for efficient leveling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NsSZSDSVWQ

alone the chance to see the globe girls for 2 hours is reason enough to watch it.