The Diablo expert wudijo has taken on a tough challenge: He is leveling in hardcore mode of Diablo 4 to level 100 – without changing his starting gear. However, at max level, a particular content brought him down.
Who is the expert? wudijo is from Germany, is one of the biggest Twitch streamers for Diablo 4, and one of the experts from maxroll.gg, one of the most important websites about Diablo overall. In his English-language streams, he constantly takes on new challenges. For instance, he tackled the hardest bosses, equipping only blue items.
In a new challenge, he leveled to level 100 in hardcore mode. However, he did not change his gear when he found stronger items, but only improved his starting gear. This allowed him to complete tough endgame content – but he ultimately failed at the pit.
“Okay, my character survived. What now?”
What was the challenge? In his YouTube video from October 2, he explains that it took him nearly 9:30 hours to reach level 100. He used only items he found at the beginning, among others, in the hell flood.
He equipped the items with affixes through hardening, engraved aspects onto the items, and used gemstones. In the sequences, one can see that some legendaries only have 2 fixed affixes – meaning they were rare items before engraving the aspects that turned into legendary items.
His plan was to unlock world tier 4 without doing anything else in hardcore mode. He achieved this at level 20. Then wudijo thought: “Okay, my character survived. What now?” Somehow his hunter then reached level 100, he says in the video. For this, he primarily used nightmare dungeons, where he was able to level not only his hunter but also his glyphs.
Starting from season 6, the function of nightmare dungeons changes: You will then receive crafting materials for completion. And your glyphs will be leveled in the pit. In our overview of season 6, you can see which content and changes are coming to Diablo 4:
Missing affixes, few resistances and low armor
The problem with the gear: Due to having fewer affixes in some cases, he was missing important stats. The existing affixes are simply weaker than affixes on items with higher item power.
By level 100, with about 2,700 armor, he hadn’t even come close to reaching the armor cap. Additionally, his resistances against damage types looked pretty bad. In the Twitch livestream, he had at level 83 and world tier 4 only about 20% resistance, with lightning resistance being as low as 4.8%.
Nevertheless, the hunter did not die until level 100 – that would have meant the end for the character in hardcore mode, as one death there is permanent.
The pit meant the end
What did he do afterwards? At level 100, wudijo set out to defeat all bosses until he encounters one that kills his hunter. He also wanted to tackle nightmare dungeons. He says: “Let’s see if we can clear everything at level 100, that would be crazy.” His new plan: Play until the hunter dies.
In the video, wudijo shows that he gradually fights all bosses – Grigoire, Varshan, Lord Zir, the beast in ice, and even Duriel and Andariel, both at level 100 themselves. He was also able to clear the nightmare dungeon at level 100 and sliced through opponents at level 154. After that, he aimed to run the pit at level 61 since there you get the rarest material (Low Iron) for completion.
“Any build that can clear the pit at 61 can basically get everything in the game. That makes it an ultimate goal for a challenge like this. If you can [handle this level], you have access to everything that’s available in the game,” the Diablo expert notes in the video.
However, during a run at level 61, his hunter met her demise. Laughing, he says in the livestream on Twitch: “Okay, that’s it.” He then concludes: “That’s probably the longest I’ve ever used the same gear set.”
With season 6, the point of contact for crafting materials changes, and you will get the obdurite for completion from nightmare dungeons. It will also drop from enemies and chests, not just from the endboss, like before in the pit. The other materials (Ingolith, Low Iron) will be removed from the game. The latest information from the past livestream on season 6 of Diablo 4 can be found in our overview.
