How to: 1-65 solo in 8H without serious gear investment

That is exactly what I do to level my new characters.
ST is OP for leveling but it's boring as heck though.

I have been using almost the exact same equipment to level but cannot go anywhere near as fast as you. Takes me close to twice as long to rush through act one purely solo. Do you never pick anything up along the way? Just run directly to the end of levels?

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johnnysd wrote:

I have been using almost the exact same equipment to level but cannot go anywhere near as fast as you. Takes me close to twice as long to rush through act one purely solo. Do you never pick anything up along the way? Just run directly to the end of levels?

i wasnt able to get anywhere near 8 hours also, and this was with someone giving me wps once or twice.

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johnnysd wrote:

I have been using almost the exact same equipment to level but cannot go anywhere near as fast as you. Takes me close to twice as long to rush through act one purely solo. Do you never pick anything up along the way? Just run directly to the end of levels?

Try using 3 quicksilver flasks with leap to jump cliffs.
Don't need to kill everything, only kill blue/rares/high density mobs.
Don't go to town if not needed, don't pick up trash items unless you are poor.

It is doable with 8 hours of pure grinding/rushing with zero down time and no time wasted. You also need to somewhat know the maps layout so you don't run into deadends/maze.

well done!! nice guide!, and all gear is pretty cheaop,

Did just hit sarn merci with ur guide as maruader, lvl 64 11 hours spend, no cwdt gem, tho. but i am no big racer eitehr, only in maps.

30 chaos worth of uniq/'s/gems/rares(i did spend 29 total) is not really that much, u find more on ur way to 65.
Did link my findings below(click spoiler).

did save all in a seperate tab to keep track of it. there is quite alot of chance orbs, but i did find very few chaos orbs on my way, also did do a few 5chance orb recipe's, (that did help slow me down) i did spend 14 equiv in chaos on some rare items, (helm, weap, boots) and sold a few gems for a total of 9 equiv. all my sells/buys been taking from that tab too. I did "lend" 15 chaos from my other tabs to buy all the uniqs from start, those uniqs i did resell after i was done with them to pay back the 15 chaos (even made a few chaos in profit form buying em cheap and sell em higher)

so after all that u can see i had profit from lvling this toon + its ready to farm docks!
i got 4.4k life and 1400 dps on lmp spectral throw(bit low imo, but i kill quite fast still)


35+ chaos worth of currency + gem(10 chaos).

So hitting a3 merci with more then 35 chaos! to upgrade my gear for! next upgrade woudl proberly be a cheap 5l chest (i can ez find 1 for undder 15c with life and resi) and a 400 dps weap(around 20 chaos) could get rings too, but weap and chest = more dps = faster farm speed in docks!




My gear


passive tree

I prefer using bows for the duelist/ranger side, they are near bow nodes and don't have access to RT for a very long time.




Makes things bretty easy.

Very nice thread.
Thanks to OP and to the others who provide good leveling information! :)