Level 100 the Pacifist way (2-100 hit-less, kill-less & death-less, no organized group)

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It was a long week that started with a stupid idea: trying to reach level 100 without killing or hitting a single monster. And because it's not fun if it's not deathless, why not too ?

The idea was to abuse the possibility party (especially leech party) offer, so all I had to do was to push the tankyness to it maximum will trying to stay a little useful.



I made a special build you can see here (https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Siphot/characters) or here on PoB - https://pastebin.com/jASE4YRa (I tried to get excatly 11 111 hp once I got the 99, but I could go over it). I choose The Perfect Form over Kaom Heart because it allowed me to level more gems (20) and was more defensive since I already had a crazy eHP. I also raised my block chance to 49% and probably just over killed the tankyness since I barely saw my life drop for more than 3khp. I used the Unnatural Instinct I droped in breach to get a little more movement speed, allowing me to push it to 191ms with Soul of Garukhan.


Some numbers: 11k+hp, 62% phys red (90 with endu), 82/81/81/75 resistance, 49% chance to block, 850hp/s + 20% every 5s.

More numbers: 0 death, started at ~30ex, finished at ~30ex, I killed 3 guys in poorjoy by miss opening strongbox/breach, saw a buch of people die, got kicked 3 times, droped 1 Tabula, made few new poe friends.


Road to 100 had multiple phase since I wanted to use what the game had to offer for a none organized group player


-The story: Early level was a pain. As someone who use to rush the story, beeing forced to watch people stop at every pack for 10s is kinda meh, but I had to deal with it. Once I passed act 2, I started to find people that were ok to come with me in 2/3 player group and take advantage of my aura, until the end of the story. That wasn't crazy, but I made it in a day in no more time than what I usually do. Little tips, decoy totem is an absolute boss killer, it make your mates more safe than anything else !

Special thanks to DoGhost who helped me with the last acts.


-Early mapping: At this point, I had my +10% xp gear, Kaom and ok stuff, three purity 20/23 and Flesh & Stone. I just joined classic leech party (T5, then T11) and started to use my empty socket to level melee gem to sell later (from 1/0).


-Labs: I just asked PL for every lab, the 3 first right after story, then the 4th arround 75. At this point I had ~9k hp and 4 Seething Divine Like Flask, so no big deal.


-Endgame mapping: From 85 to 96, I joined a lot of T11/T16 party, usually port & lair. I added some poorjoy rotation to it and it was done in two day. I also started to switch all my xp gear to something more tanky. At this point I reached 12k+hp, but beeing in a middle of a over buffed T16 legion is really scary sometime. I droped to 25% hp 3 or 4 times (once was my fault).

Special thanks to Fury & Ira who picked me in most of those runs.


-Last levels: After reaching 96, the motivation started to fade, the maximum I reached until now was 95 and it was a few leagues ago. I had heard about breach run, so I started to scan /global 820 to find some. First experience with it, I lost 1ex to a scammer, GREAT. I had to keep going on so I just keeped a eye on it and finally started to found some. At that point, when I was finding a good one I just asked him to pm me if he was going for more run the next day, and over 4 day I had multiples contacts so it was easier. I probably made over 250 breach till 100 and some new poe friends in the process, very little bad runs and everyone beeing cool. It was long, but it was cool !

Special thanks to Exe who provided a (very) large part of those runs!

-Mom, I'm Level 100!: I can die now ! Irl, I won the right to do the three day's dishes, yaahouuuuu...

That was a great experience, but next time I reach 100, I definitively spread death on my way :)

Thank you for taking the time to read all this. @WharrgarblCreation

Tl;dr: Reached level 100 without killing or hitting a monster since level 2, and deathless.

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ViolateTheDead wrote:

They really need to rethink the 10% death penalty. Road to 100 is either tank out and leech, avoid all league mechanics, do low tier maps, or all of the above.

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Aynix wrote:

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ViolateTheDead wrote:

They really need to rethink the 10% death penalty. Road to 100 is either tank out and leech, avoid all league mechanics, do low tier maps, or all of the above.

If you dont like 10% exp penatly then play on hardcore.

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ViolateTheDead wrote:

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Aynix wrote:

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ViolateTheDead wrote:

They really need to rethink the 10% death penalty. Road to 100 is either tank out and leech, avoid all league mechanics, do low tier maps, or all of the above.

If you dont like 10% exp penatly then play on hardcore.

Ah, the typical tryhard comment that don't address the problem at all for poor game design, interaction and progression.

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Gulch wrote:

How did you get past Hillock in the beginning if you didn't hit or kill a single monster?

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Tl;dr: Reached level 100 without killing or hitting a monster since level 2, and deathless.

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Nubatron wrote:

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Gulch wrote:

How did you get past Hillock in the beginning if you didn't hit or kill a single monster?

The TL/DR kind of addresses this but the overall post certainly doesn't address it well. Short answer, they didn't.

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Tl;dr: Reached level 100 without killing or hitting a monster since level 2, and deathless.

There is no way that I can think of to get through Twilight Strand hitless. Maybe during the Tempest league you could. That's all I can think of.