X proprietor, future US authorities appointee, and web pariah Elon Musk can add a brand new gaming associated accolade to his checklist of accomplishments because the tech magnate has allegedly turn into the highest Diablo IV participant on the planet.
Late on Thursday night (Nov. 21), a brand new entry to the unofficial Diablo 4 Pit Leaderboard was recorded beneath the identify “Resistance” with a US location. That is reportedly Elon Musk’s character, who now sits primary on the 1,000 particular person leaderboard rankings – spectacular contemplating Diablo IV’s participant rely numbers within the tons of of hundreds.
Picture Credit score: Brandwayart/Blizzard
Elon Musk Hits Quantity One On Diablo IV Leaderboard
The Pit, considered one of Diablo 4’s hardest dungeons, is broadly considered the last word challenges in Diablo IV and Musk’s character accomplished the run in simply 1.59 minutes, virtually 10 seconds sooner than the earlier high time.
Musk had referred to as his shot earlier this month on the Joe Rogan podcast, the place he claimed to be “one of many high 20 Diablo IV gamers on this planet.” Nonetheless, his place on the Diablo 4 Pit Leaderboard was rapidly compromised.
Then it seems Musk went into the lab and locked in, importing the verification video on Nov. 3, earlier than its eventual affirmation earlier this week. Now, Elon’s Spiritborn is character sits on the high of the leaderboards.
Elon Musk achieved his leaderboard spot with the Spiritborn from the Vessel of Hatred enlargement. Picture Credit score: Blizzard
What Does the Diablo IV neighborhood Consider Musk’s Achievement?
Neighborhood response to the feat has been a mixture of derision and apathy. Throughout the r/diablo4 subreddit, individuals have identified each that Musk possible makes use of RMT (Actual Cash Transactions) to spice up his character, and probably even different strategies past that, together with boosting.
For instance, Reddit person EarthsfireBT identified:
“2 weeks into the season he was on Rob’s (Rob2628) stream. Musk had 200hrs playtime on his Spiritborn and had 2-3ga legendaries and 3-4ga uniques. That ought to let you know every part you want to know.”
GA Legendaries and Uniques are a number of the rarest items of substances in Diablo IV.
As there’s solely 336 hours in two weeks, this might imply that Musk would have achieved nothing however play Diablo, eat and sleep for nearly your entire period.
Musk is the CEO of a number of corporations, a prodigious Twitter/X poster, and spent a lot of that point interval (Oct. 8 – Oct. 22) campaigning in Pennsylvania as a part of Donald Trump’s presidential marketing campaign. In consequence, it appears virtually not possible for him to have sunk that a lot time into the sport with out some type of RMT or boosting service.
Past this, Musk additionally made the declare on the identical Rogan podcast to be probably the greatest Quake gamers on this planet, a declare that was rapidly disproved.
In consequence, we’re left with questions over the veracity of Musk’s file, and questioning which sport the pinnacle of the long run Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) will try to succeed in the apex of subsequent. Personally, I hope it’s Dota 2 – I’d like to see an Immortal Rank Dota participant with authorities credentials.
