Yeah you are probably right. I've been to optimistic about, just something we were talking about on stream and people were hyping it up a bit
I thought a sorc could do the 3 seals solo P1 in about in about 3~ minutes and possible find a shrine. Being 8 sorc preparing games at a time and a bo barb going around for the games, but still would require a ton of people to make it work around the clock.

How come 8 weeks with perfect sync?

From what we did in tests at P8

Classic 98-99 14.3k D
20350 Diablo with Shrine
15077 adding the 3 seal bosses

Classic 97-98 27.6k D
6974 Diablo with shrine
7807 adding the 3 seal bosses

Classic 96-97 49.5k D
4950 Diablo with Shrine
4455 adding the 3 seal bosses

Classic 95-96 83.5k D
2469 Diablo with Shrine
2288 adding the 3 seal bosses

Classic 94-95 111.3k D 14.8k S
1700 Diablo with Shrine
1500 added 3 seal bosses

Classic 93-94 144.65k D 19.3k S
1199 Diablo with Shrine
1051 added 3 seal bosses

Classic 92-93 194.8k D 91.7k S
804 Diablo with Shrine
556 added 3 seal bosses

Classic 91-92 256.1k D 308k S
570 Diablo with Shrine
288 added 3 seal bosses

Classic 90-91 339.6k D 414.4k S
395 Diablo with Shrine
178 added with 3 seal bosses

93-99 37,642 shrine diablo
90-93 1,022 3x seal + shrine diablo

290 hours of prepared diablo (2.5 D kill a minute) + 15% fail rate shrine 93-99
25 hours for 90-93 seal + shrine diablo

Crazy

as a classic purist, best of luck. it won't work, but best of luck.

Yes, it is possible for a triple hybrid sorc to clear seals in a solo game.
But for sanity, two players is more fun, and they would have to load up the game with 8 people before spawning dia, otherwise you don't get 1/8 d xp. Again easier with 2 people.

Also soloing cs for a sorc is not easy, and requires not only skill, but probably 3min to do so, without searching for a shrine. So add 15-30 sec, because calculating a 15% fail rate is nice, but this also means added time spent searching.

You want 7.5 D kills in those 3+ min, so 8 sorc minimum, times 4-8, if they play 3-6 hours, is still 32-64 people. Main character. 3-6 hours is 4-8 people. Totaling 36-72 players.

If you take 8 weeks to complete instead of 2, you can divide the players by 4.
Thus 8-16 players, which is more reasonable.
Or if you have more people joining, a bit more relaxed runs.

I really like the idea of a 99 in classic, being a diehard, oldskool hc classic player myself, but this thing will likely be a marathon, not a sprint.

This post was edited by Steen on Jan 10 2026 02:37am

Please do try this regardless of how many people you can recruit.

To date I don’t believe anyone has reached 99 on D2R classic even on non ladder since season 1. Highest during any ladder season is 97 with >3billion exp but <3.1billion exp.

better yet pm the guy with the 97 and offer to 97-99 him for free

Good idea Roneye but I think ppl are not ready to go back to old D2LoD grind.
Community been fed with easy items, easy exp, easy power creep.

Can't imagine finding like 20-30 people grinding daily for 3 months to get one guy to 99. Even on season 1 when Teo and Llama did their diablo kills ppl started shitstorm about it.

But I'll watch the topic. if you guys start I'll be happy to do some rushes or maybe host ench on classic (if you don't call it a cheat / bot / etc like you did last time)

It depends 2 weeks of playing non-stop once per year is duable.

What class will the 99 be?