Diablo 3 Fast Leveling Guide

[@EdenDoesGaming]

I see Rhykker: I click. I see guide: I click. I check time bar and see segments: I smile. Your editing is godlike, down to the timestamps, thank you for your work my friend!

[@jdonald24]

Precisely! couldn't agree more!

[@PeritBezek]

It is very helpful content. But the timestamps took it to a whole new level (bad pun intended). Used it even after I reached level 70, to see the Necro scythes (haven't played it for 2 years).

[@NapFloridian]

Rhykker is Diablo...

[@adeep187]

it's good but "your editing is godlike" bit dramatic lol

[@Rhykker]

Note: I forgot to mention Demon Hunter when talking about low-level gambling. They have nothing good at low level - just go for Leoric's. You *can* wait until level 31 and try to get a quiver, but by that point you're getting diminishing returns. Your choice! ALSO: For crafting the level 70 reduced level requirement weapon, if you're a DH, go with a 1-handed mace. Bows and xbows roll Discipline as a secondary property, and we want to avoid that.

[@whateverfloatsyourboat4586]

If you craft a bow with a wd for instance you don't get the discipline roll

[@0MaXxXiMuS0]

Think you can make bow on a WD and move them over to your DH, wraps of clarity can really help with resources.

[@presbarkeep]

I was just about to comment "you forgot about DH..." Good catch :) They can gamble Wraps of Clarity for damage reduction. Good for HC players like myself.

[@marcelhabernig3588]

@@whateverfloatsyourboat4586 but you have to have a witch doctor in season with rank 12 smith, wich you wont have if you main dh since you use your materials there xd

[@LovdB]

@@marcelhabernig3588 You do, cause your blacksmithing level is not bound to your character. One lvl 12 bs means all your chars have a lvl 12 bs

[@BryceLovesTech]

The best part of every season is starting from scratch and everyone is the same. I love that

[@slickrick876]

That's the only reason I still play Diablo 3

[@SirMitsuruji5]

I love waiting for that 15 mins boost to max level

[@rauharikas6905]

Me too

[@zachstevens6233]

And then 24 hours go by and half the leaderboard is paragon 1000 already lol

[@SirMitsuruji5]

@@eugenijusdolgovas9278 when does it start the new season?

[@Wanderingsage7]

A personal recommendation is, choose the follower who shares your main stat when leveling. It's easier to find stat gear for them since in my experience, gear tends to roll to your main stat.

[@MegaRonus]

I love the start of each season. I'm always pumped for the Friday night start, and play hard for a week, and then move onto something else lmao

[@russelljackson8153]

The first night of the season is always the most fun - everyone's working towards the same goal and it's easy to find a co-op group.

[@BryceLovesTech]

Agreed

[@taylorcale6546]

My favorite part of the season grind is the first few days when everyone is at an even playing field. Been playing since day 1 and have to say that after watching this video, speed grindinhr was my absolute favorite experience in a long time! You sped me up so much and I am grateful for your help. Went from usually 6-8 hours getting 1-70 to 2hrs15min! The items along the way helped so much. Great guide and just wanted to say THANK YOU

[@ScreenSpidah]

Oof yeah, I'm gonna have to tune in to this guide next season 😂 Every season, I run through the full campaign. After Act IV, I run rifts. Not very efficient.

[@gprime70]

I really appreciate the mention of the "Not hardcore friendly" part!! I got a ton of info from this video for the new season, Thanks.

[@projectmwgames]

thanks for this man. me and my friend got to level 70 in our fastest time ever from these tips. most helpful was the crafting a level reduction weapon. I knew it was a thing but didn't bother because of all the possible affixes it could roll before. was able to do it this season thanks to this guide

[@The_Pariah]

I watch these whenever I come back to D3. Was so stoked to see a new one for season 21. :D Rhykker, you're good people.

[@StefandeJong1]

Damn, these new KZbin time stamps in the video are an amazing Quality of Life improvement for long videos!

[@Veloward]

"Nooo, QoL improvements only lead to a lazy casual player base and it's gonna destroy youtube!" -Random PoE player.

[@thisispdk]

@@Veloward This is extactly what I read the comments section for, thank you

[@Veloward]

@Corpsefoot Gaming better trading, better looting, better multiplayer, better UI. PoE it's like playing in 2020 the best game ever made for 1990s, you still play it because it's good, but the shit from the 1990s engine annoys you so much that you praise for a remake.

[@jester7214]

Love the time segmenting feature and that you actually use it. Great content as always, very informative, keep it up!

[@carloantonio8590]

omg u rock, i spend hours getting 70 doing adventure missions.... ty man

[@Babaganoosh69]

This is the video that keeps on giving. I'm late to season 26 and looking forward to 27. Great guide to get a good jump start on the season

[@somecrazystuff1469]

That tip about doing the challenge rift first thing, that was a game-changer. I don't play often and may be out of touch but that was the first time I had seen that tip and it completely changed how I started off the season. For a very much casual, on-again/off-again player, your tips got me to full Headrig's gift as a necromancer in 7.5 hours (with some afk downtime in there... Had to take care of the child... lol) Thanks! You prove time and time again that there's a really good reason so many people come to you for Diablo tips :)

[@BrendanCavalier]

Longtime watcher, first-time commenter. Semi-casual but only seasonal hardcore player here. Thanks for putting this together! It's huge having the youtube markers in each for each of these, and thank you for quickly going through each classes gambling/crafting items! I often find these piecemeal and it's a bunch of tabs open while I'm trying to level.

[@gilbertodemiranda5265]

I think this is the most important video ever for Diablo 3. Love your channel and your videos

[@qontinuumgaming5209]

It is worth mentioning that you should transmog EVERYTHING you plan to keep so you don't accidentally sell it. Just pick the cheapest one. Also keep all the low level uniques that you find that have any cube value. They might be useless to wield at 70 but you can still cube their powers when you have the mats available! Also, Act V Adria and act II Temple of the First Born work very well for massacre farming so you don't have to remake as often. There is also a very common cursed chest in A2 Temple of the First Born close to the beginning.

[@spencereades]

@Van Damage I remember a time when I was a petulant child and thought my games were superior to other people's. You'll get there eventually, little buddy :)

[@Psychorico]

@@spencereades Cute, innit?

[@chrisherring8733]

@Van Damage But harvest has been out for ages.. Completed all content, dropped a HH. Time to spent a nice chill weekend levelling and putting together a build whilst drinking beer with friends and using zero brain power. Nothin' wrong with that.

[@derda9075]

your way of explaining things is very clear and concise, ty for the video

[@mitchsledge9295]

My favorite place to massacre bonus in act 5 Adria. The little spiders are everywhere and you can chain some massive massacres

[@qontinuumgaming5209]

I would thumbs up this more if I could.

[@TheGolferguy71]

I've tried that area, but isn't the xp for those spiders so small that you basically need a 3 or 4x higher massacre bonus to get the same xp as skeletons or zombies? Just seems kinda like the old saying of 100 x nothing = nothing. Personally, I tend to go to Act 3, Sech way point, then head right to The Eternal Woods. I do also use Fields tho. Typically takes me just under 2 hours to hit 70 using something similar to Rhykkers method.

[@LongToad]

I've tried Adrias zone but found Fields of Misery to be the best because it's so open- you just have to avoid the "coves" and the dead beast area as they're basically deadzones. One of the coves has a 100 kill chest but it's one of the worst chests of that kind, it's also sometimes replaced by the named tree event (which isn't really worth doing). Problem with Adria's area is lots of walls, doors, and closed spaces that can easily drop your bonus. Fields is very good for keeping your massacre throughout, especially if you have a turret/pet that can smack things as you move and a good long range attack. DH always felt the quickest because of their natural speed skills (roll + speed boost passive) plus plenty of ranged attacks and turrets. Just be careful there if you go to torment difficulty in HC as there is a keywarden that can kill you pretty easily (since you have crap gear).

[@bloodywolf9992]

very helpful guide! very well explained, honestly the best on youtube! thanks man for putting the time and effort to putting this together really appreciate it!

[@dongranger5611]

You know I’ve watched this video so many times in the past two years that I can literally recite it from memory every season lol

[@drakedbz]

You can also killstreak in temple of the firstborn. It has roughly a 50% chance of containing a cursed chest that has the 100 enemy requirement, along with a lot of small enemies and decent density, so you can chain a huge killstreak. My record is over 500 kills in one streak. Also, Necromancer can level to 70 in about 1 hour if you get the "perfect" start. They have aoe abilities from a really low level, so they cut out a huge portion of the leveling process. For many classes, the first 20-30 levels take forever. The great thing about necro is that it is incredibly good at clearing mobs, so it's feasible to be on T6 for most of the leveling process, which significantly boosts your leveling speed.

[@katherinedonnelly9990]

asmr mouth sounds

[@ninjadude8464]

this dude knows his stuff. always covers things well. thanks Rykerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[@CuriousShrimp]

As usual, amazing work. I love the effort you always put into streamlining your videos and giving clear, structured advice.

[@scarlet8078]

This was really great. I hadn't played this game in years & recently got it on Switch to play over holidays/ quarantine. Turns out I didn't remember anything lol 💕

[@hslee169]

Dude, the guide is gold! Your voice is gold! Thanks for the post.

[@darenhudson1397]

have not played in long time, always refer to your videos to get me prepared.....much appreciated.

[@natedawg8778]

Bro, this guide is GOLD! THANKS 👏

[@WillRR1302]

Another tip, if the legendary weapon created at the beginning of the guide does not have a good property to extract, instead it can be used in the process of reducing the level requirement. The advantage is greater damage and can reduce more than 30 lvl, if I'm not mistaken it reduces 40 lvls, and if by any chance its an ancestral weapon than its definitly worth going for the reducing of the level requirement, since that property will roll at max and the weapon dmg ill be a lot higher

[@o__odemon8915]

Your really good with all these diablo vids man, wish I had the time to understand everything in depth like this. Great video bro

[@xFremy]

Amazing video as always Rhykker! Really helpful! Been following you for years now and you still got it in you man!

[@mrflibbl3s]

Nice update. been a while since anyone did one this detailed. gl!

[@hmercer44]

I thought D3 was dead until I noticed this video has almost 700,000 views. Great work Rhykker, keep it up man!

[@whateverfloatsyourboat4586]

A great area to do the massacre bonus is the Eternal Woods. There is always a XP pool and a yellow chest

[@hunterosborne2373]

thumbs up for letting me watch the whole video in the first "Hey Foalks!" 00:00 excellent job on the table of contents.

[@Disciple_of_Cthulhu]

I recommend doing Nephalem Rifts only once you find Nemesis Bracers. Progress is much slower without them, the cache-specific crafting materials will come in handy when upgrading legendary items, and completing each act's bounties will advance your season journey..

[@BrutalJambon]

Damn, a LOT of small tips that I never heard about in this video that ultimately lead to a much quicker jumpstart. Thanks a lot ! The websites are also a big help.

[@whiskyrebel9715]

I enjoy your video format man. This will be my first season in a while and I'm excited.

[@someguy1141]

One thing to add to this great video is you will almost always get a Leoric's Crown within the first few legendary drops. Not sure if it's planned by blizzard or not but 5 out of 5 seasons i leveled recently i got a crown on my first legendary drop at the start of a season. This is not 100% proven but others have said the same. If you don't want to go kill Leoric in the story mode you will likely pick one up early on in your rifting. If anyone has any information confirming or busting this please respond so people have the best information possible.

[@jhmatrix]

Damn your content is always the best and a real gem in the D3 world. Always love to watch everything when a season is starting.

[@Sanchos123]

Awesome, thanks Rhykker! Been playing for long, but got quite a few good pointers there, Cheers!

[@felixthedogspar]

The "bravo" thing made my day. Thanks!

[@reaper-49er89]

Thanks Rhykker for yet another awesome explanation my fourth season pairing with my wife on ps4 and your guides are so helpful :)

[@ruslanstoyanov407]

You just the best I'm watching all of your videos 2-3 year already keep up the good work thank you

[@RedBeard26]

Alright, honestly. Not that into diablo. Figured Id hop back in and try to level a character. But this video is probably the best tutorial I have seen for any game. Very well done!

[@omnimutant]

If you are a Witch Doctor, instead of uping a ceremonial Knife at level 1, you can do a staff and hope for Wormwood. Cubed Wormwood is pretty epic for leveling.

[@samasincara8212]

Great explanation! I'm using this guide to bring back my friends to the game. thank you R!

[@ronin9380]

I've been out for a couple of seasons..this was Awesome! Thank you!

[@LuvYaMin]

The highlight of every Ryker video is is voice. 💙

[@guilhermefreitas4941]

I already know all of this stuff but still enjoy watching these videos

[@genrukin]

Thanks for the guide just got into following build guides and speed leveling in this game its pretty awesome Not sure why Diablo 3 is so fun its one of the games you cant stop playing lol.

[@jbird5829]

One of the most important videos for D3.

[@TheRealFumigator]

Hey thanks man, this season is the fastest I ever leveled to 70, thanks to this guide. I've always just muddled through at a snail's pace, which was fun and fine, but I really enjoyed following this structure. It only took me 5 1/2 hours to get to 70, which is a record for me (and slow for everyone else, haha).

[@TheRealFumigator]

I forgot to mention, I never did roll the "reduce level requirement" secondary stat, even after following your advice and making sure the weapon had a crowd control stat to begin with. It only ever rolled +max essence or +life after kill. So I never got the benefit of a level 70 weapon before level 70. Oh well, them's the breaks!

[@Rhykker]

@@TheRealFumigator Bad luck :( But great job on your time to 70!

[@bobcs2155]

Awesome video dude. Me and the wife are doing our first season chars today, typically she's having DH and I'm having Wizard so she'll be leading me xD

[@daniel9453]

I followed your S21 plan and it's full proof. I chose a wizard for shits and giggles and rolled a teleport buff wish it was better but whatever. thanks again!

[@RichyRich2607]

Appreciate the effort for this Guide, thanks alot man!

[@starlitelemming6929]

Wow! I knew about TeamBRG for Set Dungeons, but I'm definitely checking their other stuff! BTW: Instead of Alt-Tabbing away from D3 to see this video, or d3resources, having a printable summary on your desk can make things much easier. Just remember that printers don't handle "dark theme" very well... Thanks again, for a great guide!

[@NixyRumancek]

I keep a gaming notebook and copied out the relevant stuff XD Didn't think it would print either.

[@starlitelemming6929]

@@NixyRumancek - You can sometimes take a screenshot and invert the colours for printing, print without background in the browser, or copy to Excel/Google Sheets and reorganise the data for printing. :)

[@bazurful]

If you get bastion's (10 stacks + aoe) as barb, don't go for bracers, but belts (The Undisputed Champion) which buffs frenzy and you gain all runes at once for it + 300-400% more damage. If you get it, try for depth diggers at level 60.

[@bioforge55]

Superb guide Rhykker, thank you very much!

[@ster6222]

Awesome reminder video! Thanks Rhy. 🤙🏻 édit: AND I learned some new tricks! 👍🏻👍🏻

[@Captain_Klown]

Dang man! What a guide! A+ job my dude. Now I just need to watch it again with a pen and paper ha!

[@michaellee4585]

Great guide! The most helpful part I learned was enchanting manipulation; had no idea how to increase your odds of reducing level requirement 👍

[@GBIGBIGBI]

Great guide. Thanks a zillion for creating such excellent content for us!

[@dr.davidmathiasen6792]

Excellent information - I am soooo much looking forward to starting my first new season and grinding - I hope to find a good group maybe one day

[@rocknrollajohnnyquid876]

STAY AWHILE AND LISTEN to tthis leveling guide

[@mikewheeler3449]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the explanation and this guide building up

[@nes0901]

good tips as usual. best balance of fun, variety and speed

[@lucabeavis]

This content is so good. Even after all these years there's something new even old players can learn from you.

[@waynegosson1793]

Superb guide ! Excellent work!

[@ericpisch2732]

Fantastic guide, 2000+ hours played and half of that never occurred to me lol

[@nathanmcleod9497]

Well considering it takes only a few hours to max lvl without using a guide and all the xp bonuses. You really don't even need to use a guide lol. I'm just here to tell everyone d2>d3

[@dustintheslayer]

@@nathanmcleod9497 no

[@nathanmcleod9497]

@@dustintheslayer yup

[@iriswaldenburger2315]

Nathan McLeod exactly.... it’s not like you don’t hit max level within the first 4-5 hours, if you don’t, you are doing something wrong

[@dustintheslayer]

@@nathanmcleod9497 nope

[@SonyUSA]

Thanks Rhykker! Saves me the trouble of finding a guide on Reddit :D

[@Mikey6048]

Bro I've been playing D3 since vanilla, and like a idiot, I've been leveling the hard way, via rifts. Damn. Thank you for this.

[@Erk-o]

So much frickin information, only half way through video then he said "ok, now when u reach level 7" 🤯

[@spyqui5505]

That was a really good and comprehensible guid (i am a new player and i understood)

[@connorclarkson8563]

Hate that early-season chat spam 'anyone want to boost me?' pisses me off.

[@TheOphrys]

Sounds like a business opportunity :P

[@stevenm22]

Mind boosting me when it goes live?

[@jimzyz3840]

@@stevenm22 that have happend i was like lvl 40 and someone already asked in chat that they wanted a boost like bruh no one is boosting now !

[@KDreezy]

Only time I do is if it's been a day and I wasn't able to start day 1 of season. Day two usually has plenty of people willing to boost you because they are already 70+ 500 Para.

[@kfklspy]

lol... i never ever join that chat.... do a favor to you and leave that chat too.

[@UnknownGamerxd]

Rhykker, how dare you leak all my totally-super-duper-secret leveling strats! Now the Diablo community will become better players on average! >:( For real though, great guide, glad you're bringing these tips to further popularity, I've used a lot of these strats for a number of seasons now and even I learned a few things (controlling the affixes for secondary weapons properties was a great shout). Great guide again, good luck to everyone in the new season

[@kbearutube]

Ty for this. I got lucky with my necro and got the essence damage increase legendary. Still took forever to level but it was more lack of increased movement speed than difficult combat. So spoiled with poe. As an uncle i suffer for my niece and nephew.

[@TimNotAvailable]

After challenge rift and grabbing follower weapon I usually go for a master difficulty kill on Zoltun Kulle or Maghda, pretty easy to get to and you get a bunch of rare drops and get lvl 3-4, then drop back to hard and follow the path described here.

[@jaye2315]

How r u supposed to do challenge rift when it won't let u do it until u do greater rift that u can't do till lvl 70?

[@TimNotAvailable]

@@jaye2315 You only need to do that once on your account and then the challenge rifts will be unlocked forever. You don't need to unlock the challenge rift every new season. :)

[@jaye2315]

I started a new guy cuz I wanted to try some things and it won't let me do challenge rift til lvl 70. Don't understand..

[@jaye2315]

The only thing I can see is because I started a new character. I thought it would start new but it doesn't.

[@nicholasdemery9642]

@@jaye2315 news accounts must complete the campaign

[@jrzez]

Great guide for most as usual. Since I started doing HC to make things more interesting, I go the route outside the cleavers for sure lol. But outside of that, this is basically what I use. Doing DH this season I'll try for a 31 quiver on gambling, 3 out of 4 are good potential options there.

[@hoschiestahl6476]

Best way: run goblin seeds, do bounties until you have good enough gear to run rifts, repeat over and over again till season ends

[@royacaba1538]

Just the video I was looking for

[@johnplassmeyer3921]

Great job as usual - thanks!

[@yassmynne]

Best video so much details for beginner like me.

[@projectxgaming]

Video finishes... Me: What i was supposed to do again?

[@bogroll1881]

For crusader I would suggest you gamble for heart of iron with blood shards - if you cube it thorns will scale off strength and vitality underpinning the build if you have shards left go for shield as well. I wouldn't waste time upgrading a rare weapon better to save deaths breath to give you the option of cubing legendarys if they drop while leveling. Also you may as well switch to completing all 5 bounties at about lvl 50 - you have to do them anyway, you should switch to 4 piece almost straight away from 70 if you do this.

[@dakodaarmstrong5]

bog roll yes heart or iron is op on the horsey

[@DrewTHEMIGHTY]

Your mic is sounding so good! I could listen to it all day 🤤

[@nightwingduck4057]

One thing I do is all of the bounties, instead of just Act 1. It may increase your time to get to 70, but I think it reduces the time to get all of Haedrig's gifts and get your full set. But I also don't worry about trying to set a new speed record to 70 every season. I just have fun playing the game.

[@kelsanswer]

You might want to add one more step - before even going for the cube - check to see if the Zoltan Kulle or Maghda boss kill bounty is up. It's a super easy kill on Master, gets you a couple of levels, plus some yellow gear that you can use. From there, just drop down the difficulty and get the cube.

[@judahnanas9772]

Yeah it's a no brainer. Kull is really fast to do too!

[@365jolly]

Great guide Rhykker!

[@redemptryx]

Thank you so much for this helpful guide!!

[@hedgehogbun]

Thanks sir. Actually, that massacre bonus 'rope' is a fuse that is lit and then explodes at end when killing is over.

[@aaronmccullen3840]

This leveling guide was awsome and saved me so much time. Is there a guide for season journey once you hit lvl 70?

[@ninjantman6510]

Grind until your thumbs fall off

[@ravemachine517]

Didnt know this 70lvl weapon trick! Many thanks, very cool

[@PandaArchaedas]

Omg u have timestamps I freaking love you Rhykker! Lol awesome vid

[@KenHinzman]

The advice for gambling on a legendary is pretty solid, thanks!

[@MyChannel-l4w]

Saw this, got excited, fired up Diablo 3. Fuck the season starts next Friday

[@dalamar666]

Thank you for the guide!!

[@scottcraig920]

I always get Cains 2 XP set bonus and Borns Set bonus ASAP, helps speed up levelling quite a bit on your first Char

[@kitkakitteh]

Don't even need a guide, but leaving this running for the familiar voice. 👍🏻