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 develop 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 below the title “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 lots of of 1000’s.
Picture Credit score: Brandwayart/Blizzard
Elon Musk Hits Quantity One On Diablo IV Leaderboard
The Pit, one in all Diablo 4’s hardest dungeons, is extensively considered the last word challenges in Diablo IV and Musk’s character accomplished the run in simply 1.59 minutes, nearly 10 seconds sooner than the earlier prime 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 prime 20 Diablo IV gamers on the planet.” Nonetheless, his place on the Diablo 4 Pit Leaderboard was shortly 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 prime 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?
Group response to the feat has been a mixture of derision and apathy. Throughout the r/diablo4 subreddit, folks have identified each that Musk possible makes use of RMT (Actual Cash Transactions) to spice up his character, and presumably 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 all the pieces it’s good 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 is able to imply that Musk would have executed nothing however play Diablo, eat and sleep for nearly the complete length.
Musk is the CEO of a number of firms, 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. Consequently, it appears nearly unattainable 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 among the finest Quake gamers on the planet, a declare that was shortly disproved.
Consequently, 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 achieve the apex of subsequent. Personally, I hope it’s Dota 2 – I’d like to see an Immortal Rank Dota participant with authorities credentials.
