As fun as it is to see bigger damage numbers than you probably should in action RPGs, Blizzard has been able to keep players from completely trivializing Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred's satisfying character progression, and—most surprisingly—its work-in-progress competitive leaderboards system.
Lord of Hatred has a mode called The Tower where you slay monsters to fill a progress bar as fast as you can. There are 150 levels of difficulty so players can measure how powerful their characters are compared to others on its leaderboards.
I'm not usually concerned with competitive integrity when it comes to games like Diablo, but I'm always fascinated by the people who do. Blizzard's swift patches have made the leaderboards a useful spot to check what builds and which players are crushing the game.
When you look at the leaderboards, you'll see a lot of names of players you probably won't recognize, save for a few notable streamers. Over the weekend, however, there were several top-ranked players on the NA and EU leaderboards sharing the same name: "INFbuilds".
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