Path of Exile 2’s fastest player is about to cross the finish line

fastest player Path of Exile 2 It looks like he’s playing the role of a musical visualizer. Lightning ping-pong balls streaked across the screen, synchronized with the breakneck rhythm he’d been playing for the past nine hours. twitch. He’s in a race to be the first player in the world to reach the highest level of the action RPG, and the competition is fierce.

Andrew “TidesofTime” Biessener is level 98, just two levels shy of the level 100 finish line. official rankings. Gaining experience has been slow so far in the race, but if he continues at this rate he could win the title by the weekend.

former professional Dota 2 and Hearthstone Bisener is defining what it means to be a professional footballer Power over Ethernet 2 It looks like it’s going to be a screen filled with lightning during early access. His Stormweaver Sorceress is a conduit of serious impact damage and speed. While other classes have to risk getting hit when aiming arrows or charging towards monsters, Bisenna’s build does the job for him so that he can teleport around the map efficiently. All he does is send out his Spark ability and watch as thousands of blue lightning clear the dungeon for him.

Bisener takes a short break Thursday to finish the game his settings is live, but don’t let his massive skill tree intimidate you. It’s really simple: everything works on mana. one PoE2 Passive skills Based on how much mana you have and Mind is higher than things Nodes in the skill tree convert your mana into your health. No longer in need of a normal life, Bisenna also started running reduce it to 1 node And makes you immune to Chaos damage, the most horrific damage type in the game. He actually has more magic than the sorceress.

There are five other Witch players in the top ten with similar (if not identical) builds. That’s the power of finding a single attribute in a game full of single attributes that can do it all. At this level of the game, lucky loot drops aren’t even a factor. Purchasing items from other players is your only way to find the perfect gear, which means the game is very much a marathon of clearing the dungeon as quickly as possible. One Reddit user tallied up all the different categories in the top 1,000 player rankings and the results are Mostly Stormreaver Witches.

But second place was actually a supplicant monk who was about an hour behind Bisenna, prompting him to keep going. “I can’t stop because the supplicants won’t stop,” Buisener said during a live broadcast on Friday.

If Bisenna Introduction to steam There are indications that it took him more than 260 hours to get to this point. I haven’t yet reached the world record of 60 hours with a level 66 witch, but there’s always next time.

Path of Exile 2 Now available in Early Access on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Windows PC.