Total time from ladder reset: 96h38m06s aka 4days and 38minutes. Completed on hardcoreHuge shout out to Ladder Rank #2 Niarchist. We haven't had any interaction before the last few hours of the push.
You really deserve some praise for your dedication, you would have had the new world record. Without you I wouldn't have pushed anywhere near this hard.
I was watching your stream most of your push on my secondary monitor.
Thanks to all the guys in Disc Horadrim. Without having you in voice chat to encourage and play with me, I would not have been able to do it.
Having always at least few of you to chat with around the clock. Specially Grillspyd, Hoakis, Hampus, Jarmo, Moldrin, onehitonekill, Oso, ReLL, Zax and more.
Day 1.
Speedrun with team Underdawgs/Horadrim. We did a solid 3h4min run winning opD2GM's event.
After we did a solid 12ish hours of Chaos runs as a full team, without any deaths. Well done guys!
We were lucky to find everything for 2 Mosaic claws and basic gear so I could respec into MA from Trap.
Then went onto doing P8 Solo chaos
Went to bed 22hours in, at level 92. Leaderboard looking like:
https://i.imgur.com/GybjuYo.jpgDay 2.
After a 8 solid hours of sleep I starting shopping on D2jsp for items. Sadly the availability is not quite the same as on softcore. So it took quite some time to get things like sin torch, griffons etc.
Then I started doing a mix of P8 Chaos and P8 TZ, depending on the Terror Zone roll.
Niarchist and I started to get far ahead of the rest of the leaderboard. Went to bed around lvl 96.5.
Leaderboard 2 hours before going off to bed:
https://i.imgur.com/HKn6UVg.jpgDay 3.
10AM CET
After 7 hours of great sleep I stood up to being on rank 2. Had been bested by 130m exp!
I went straight onto grinding P8 terror zones.
From 10AM to 3AM we both pushed as hard as possible with only a few breaks lasting a few minutes each.
I gained slightly more exp per hour than Niarchist, but it simply wasn't possible to make up the 130m exp he gained.
Around midnight Oso on disc recommend me to "fake sleeping" to trick spot #1. Thought it was a very good idea, but it shouldn't be in a great terror zone.
At 3AM TZ Ancient's Way and Icy Cellar came on. I logged of twitch and d2jsp, he kept updating the leaderboard on stream. After 20 minutes of farming that area and seeing my experience hadn't been increasing he finally went to bed.
Screenshot from he's stream (found from broadcast history):
https://i.imgur.com/BAOBSIr.jpgDay 4.
Going on from above, time 3:20AM CET.
It was about time to push while he was off to bed.
He got online again after only 3 hours of sleep, but I was able to gain a 45million exp lead in the meantime.
I had been awake grinding for 22hours by this time, started slacking and playing less efficient as he was gained more exp per hour than me.
A few more hours of playing I hit level 98, 2 hours after he gains level 98. Then out of the blue he jump right up next to me in EXP. I was so confused for a minute!
But OMG he had saved the ancients quest in hell. And yes we haven't had any WSK TZ in this period of time.
I was 25 hours in the grind without sleep. I needed some sleep and we were almost neck and neck in exp, I made myself ready to take spot #2 instead after some sleep.
Thankfully at this time the encouragement in voice chat really started, I popped some extra caffeine and took 1 bar of exp by one.
Was able to push through. And did another 16.5 hours of grinding.
At 2:38AM after 41.5 hours of constant grinding TZ no more than 5 minutes of breaks at a time a few times I settled in at lvl 99 #1.
https://i.imgur.com/6lADopN.jpgThe leaderboards SC and HC when I hit level 99:
https://i.imgur.com/o7MqDoJ.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/9NHyFbT.jpg