One of the major changes in Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred is the ability to scale the difficulty way higher than you could before. Most players are gradually climbing the torment tiers as they gear their characters up, but some players are speedrunning to the top just to see how fast they can do it.
For Diablo 4 streamer Mekuna, the ascent from a level 1 sorceress to a level 70 sorceress capable of holding her own in the hardest difficulty took around 17 hours of non-stop grinding. And because Blizzard intentionally kept a lot of late-game details secret, he also had to quickly come up with a build that could take him there.
That build ended up being centered around a new variant of the Blizzard skill. Instead of dropping hail onto enemies, Mekuna spams the lightning variant of it to fry packs of enemies in seconds. Watching all the bright circles stack up in his final dungeon run is like opening a website in light mode at night—yo...
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