Originally Posted by
Paisti
Very very very simple, A1 gives loads of exp if you know the route, or just clear Festering woods place with loads of skeletons, forgot the name havent touched D3 hc in 1 month. Me and friend did some fast calculations when paragon exp came just by running 3-4 chosen places in A1. He is DH, he could have taken the world first easily (if no dc death), he just doesnt enjoy grinding that much tho, I think I might have tried it if I had 50k dps character on hc. Playing tanky barb so nop. Anyways A1 with good dps and knowing your way = 5-10 min run, LOADS of exp. I ran some runs with him, it took that 10min ish when I was there to double the monster HP, wearing full MF set and just leeching. Got like 2 levels in less than an hour, in 8-10 level range. I Just remember he was like Paragon lv14 and leader was 20 ish on hc side and was like "oh ive played that 4-5 hours to get this".
This is kinda long time ago but it still is simple, if you do this route you make your way from 1 to 20 in 1 day without too much effort, proven. You need patience to do this though, boring as hell. But patience is the key in Diablo anyway, and more so in hc. And you better not work 8 hours a day.