How long does it take until lvl 100?

[uuuhdavid]

Standard League, Im playing as a level 51 duelist and I'm 109 hours in.
Wow, this game takes a long time. How long does it take until 100 hours?

[Psyringe]

Originally posted by David:

How long does it take until 100 hours?

Well, 100 hours obviously. ;) (sorry, couldn't resist ;) )

Joking aside, the playing time to level 100 is hard to quantify, because only very few players take their character that far. I think recently a highly professional player has gotten a fresh character in Tempest to level 100 in two weeks (doing nothing but playing basically, and having help from another player, _and_ most importantly having help from an entire community of subscribers who sent him maps).

My own Warband character is now level 91 after 8 weeks. It'll probably take several more weeks if I want to take her to level 100.

Don't take it for granted to reach max level. From level 90 onward, it becomes extremely grindy, because:
- It takes more and more XP to raise a level. Getting to level 91 requires 2 billion XP in total. Getting to level 100 takes more than double of that.
- You get less and less XP for doing the same content. You gain reduced XP if your own level is much higher than that of the area you're in, up to the point were you only get 1% of the XP that the enemies would usually give. The highest level areas that the game provides are level 82, but these are hard to get, realistically you'll do level 77-80 maps in the very late stages. If you're (say) level 95, then you'll get only about one fifth of the XP that those maps would usually provide. And it'll get less with every new level you gain.
- Areas above level 70 aren't freely available, you have to work for them, and have to use currency to craft them if you want to sustain levels above 74.

In short, the answer is simply: Too long for the vast majority of people. Usually people take a character to about level 92 if they can get that far, and then start a new one.

[uuuhdavid]

Originally posted by Psyringe:

Originally posted by David:

How long does it take until 100 hours?

Well, 100 hours obviously. ;) (sorry, couldn't resist ;) )

Joking aside, the the playing time to level 100 is hard to quantify, because only very few players take their character that far. I think recently a player has gotten a fresh character in Tempest to level 100 in two weeks (doing nothing but playing basically, and having help from another player, _and_ most importantly having help from an entire community of subscribers who sent him maps).

My own Warband character is now level 91 after 8 weeks. It'll probably take several more weeks if I want to take her to level 100.

Don't take it for granted to reach max level. From level 90 onward, it becomes extremely grindy, because:
- It takes more and more XP to raise a level. Getting to level 91 requires 2 billion XP in total. Getting to level 100 takes more than double of that.
- You get less and less XP for doing the same content. You gain reduced XP if your own level is much higher than that of the area you're in, up to the point were you only get 1% of the XP that the enemies would usually give. The highest level areas that the game provides are level 82, but these are hard to get, realistically you'll do level 77-80 maps in the very late stages. If you're (say) level 95, then you'll get only about one fifth of the XP that those maps would usually provide.
- Areas above level 70 aren't freely available, you have to work for them, and have to use currency to craft them if you want to sustain levels above 74.

In short, the answer is simply: Too long for the vast majority of people. Usually people take a character to about level 92 if they can get that far, and then start a new one.

Wow, thanks for the fast reply!

[Psyringe]

You can also check the ladders in the official forum to get an idea:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-forum/leagues-and-race-events

Currently, after 8 weeks, 17 Warbands players and 14 Tempest players have reached level 100. In Standard (the league that runs since the game started) there are about 350 players that made it that far.

[Kilrathii]

If your build or gear is crap youll never get to 100.

[Boiledteabag]

Do you use public partys? people go into public partys to level off exp to be on par or a little over leveled for the next area.

Then from merciless and onwards its maps.

[deathmaster snikch]

to get to 100? wow first you need right build and items after that probably 400 hours

[Kev@n]

@Psyringe: except for the obvious psychological reward for have a char to lvl100, is there any performance difference, if geared with same items, between a 70-80-90char and a 100?
Do they have access to different contents/endgame or they're so different in stats-skills-dps-overall peformance?

of course different advancement in skill tree..but is it so noticeable?
ty.

[jbridso]

It just takes forever because of the exp decay for being overleveled compared to the area/map you're clearing. If you have access to an endless supply of really high level maps and don't die you could probably do it in a few weeks...

Generally though you cannot sustain high level maps and end up running underlevel maps for like 5-10% of the regular exp while farming out the higher level maps. Basically, you get stuck running the exact same 5-6 maps for hours on end and most players just quit due to boredom... or they die and lose like 2 days worth of exp and throw their computer out the window....

[Vaagur]

100 takes months to reach.

[ghost@localhost.~#]

I can't imagine anyone reaching 100 without becoming psychotic.

[Sceles]

In hours propably like 500h, but only if you know what you're doing and are using a build that has been proved to work. That said, I always use my own gimmicky builds and keep making alts so even after 845h I've yet to reach lvl100.

[Sick Boy]

I don't think your goal should be "Reach 100" it should be more "Reach an effective build."

Building a proper character that can do what you want is more important(and practical) than achieving the maximum level.