How are people hitting 85 in like 10 hours?

I reach level 90 in the first week, that's fast enough for me (Doing all missions), hit merciless in day two and run some docks to match zone level.
Dried Lake till 75 in day 3 and white maps till 90 at day 6-7.
At level 93 get bored to level up Gorges, Plateau and Springs so I start with challenges and die a lot in the process.
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it's a nice quaetion i am curious too
I usually go pretty fast until Cruel, then I get too caught up in killing monsters, and my progress slows down.

Then again, I figure the point is to kill stuff, it doesn't really matter if it happens at lvl 50, or lvl 90, as long as you are having fun, right?

I have more problems with the fact that when your build "clicks" into place with your gear around 68-75, there is only a few levels until I get bored at around lvl 85, and those levels pass by way to fast...
The plan is simple: win! If you do not win, you did not follow the plan
There are two variant's of the speed you are talking about guys. One is the start of a new league, where you are mostly playing self found on day one (if you are rushing to end game and maps).

The second is later in the leagues, when you can equip all the amazing leveling items and have all your upgrades sitting in your stash waiting for you.

The second option will almost always be faster if you are efficient.
It also depends if you have any lvling uniques available. I usually get to merci dried lake in around 10 hours, I think compared to a "pro racer" its pretty slow, compared to most other people its relatively fast. I also manage to ascend in normal and cruel by then. Ususally I ascend at lvl 42 normal (hallowed flasks) and lvl 57 cruel, I find cruel to be the easiest difficulty as the mobs are still trash but you have all support gems available that you might need. Usually I do the skillpoint missions while levelling, especially in early league, but thats because I play hc and skill points means less chance of dieing.
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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/



I'd say this is pretty close to the best advice you can get for early league play.
Step one is obviously free up time in order to play a lot the first week, people tend to not realize just how important it is to get to maps as quick as possible, the faster you can make six sockets start dropping like crazy the faster you can get currency and get those build enabling unique to really help push your build in the direction of speed clearing.

And really, just getting experience from leveling multiple characters each league, you learn a bit more every tiem and hopefully do a bit better each go.
 So like these MF'ers (and I'm not talking magic find) are pretty much F'ing with the devs minds and pretty much ruining any hope that the one shot death Izaro type bosses of any future act zones or maps will be toned down. These streamers give GGG a very wrong impression of how easy or tough PoE is and because they are streaming pretty much 24/7 (I guess they sleep some time) they race through 3 times and into maps in 1 day on any new league. I'm thinking this is a huge WTF are they doing? and a huge GET A LIFE buddy! if you watch them.

 These elites are why races are not fun for the commoner as there is never any chance of finishing in the top 10. Yah, I can delude myself into thinking that playing a race is the reward in itself but it would be nice to be in the top 10 once in a while but not with these players around in droves. Yah, the "GIT GUD or GIT OUT" posts always come out in these threads but damn, I just wanted an enjoyable mostly hardcore arpg but these insane arpg junkies are just bad for business. Our business of playing PoE as a free time arpg (god knows I've pored more of my free time into PoE than any other single game... D2/D3 or TL2 or TQIT isn't even close) is in peril if GGG keeps getting this kind of feedback from streamers... I hit level 100 in 2 weeks in Perandus League... more harder please. Where's the fuck'in enjoyment in that?

Edit: I sure hope GGG doesn't become like the peasants in Warcraft "more harder please... What? ... Right-O."
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Necessity may be the mother of invention, but poor QoP in PoE is the father of frustration.

The perfect solution to fix Trade Chat:
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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


You forgot the all important requirement of moving to Dallas (Zeno and Pox) or moving to southern Australia (ZiggyD) specifically to get a near perfect super low latency Internet connection to a PoE realm. Oh, almost forgot, not having a real life is also important.
"You've got to grind, grind, grind at that grindstone..."
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but poor QoP in PoE is the father of frustration.

The perfect solution to fix Trade Chat:
www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2247070
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