NEW YORK, NEW YORK – OCTOBER 31: Elon Musk attends Heidi Klum’s 2022 Hallowe’en Party at Sake No … [+] Hana at Moxy LES on October 31, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)
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In a surprise appearance on Joe Rogan’s show the day before the election, Elon Musk momentarily veered away from politics to reveal that he’s one of the top 20 Diablo 4 players in the world, a list which contains only two Americans.
I mean, really, Elon? You expect me to believe the richest guy on earth is one of the most insane Diablo 4 grinders on the planet? Come on.
But it’s true, all of it.
It’s easy to be skeptical of many Elon claims these days, but he’s being truthful about this. You can check, Elon Musk is actually the #19 Diablo 4 player in the world in terms of timed runs of Pit 150.
If you follow Elon on Twitter, in between thousands of political posts and a few rocket videos, he has indeed periodically shared videos of him playing Diablo 4 at extremely high levels. Usually he’s a Barbarian (and has been known to complain directly to Blizzard about the class needing buffs) but like everyone, he recently played Spiritborn during the Vessel of Hatred expansion, which is responsible for his current #19 ranking with a somewhat typical Quill build, but a really good one, it seems.
I’ve seen people speculate that Elon is just being carried or that he paid for a bunch of perfect loot in order to reach these heights. It’s not impossible, but there’s no evidence of that. What does remain a mystery, however, is that a guy running multiple companies including SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter (X) has time to grind what has to be dozens or even hundreds of hours of Diablo to be ranked this high if he’s not paying for boosts. Plus you know, tweeting a hundred times a day, at least. The joke is that he’s so hands-off with his companies this is how he spends all his time, but who knows.
Elon Musk has long been a gamer, previously extolling the virtues of Cyberpunk 2077, a game in which the mother of some of his children, Grimes, appears. Previously, he was mocked for showcasing what appeared to be a truly terrible Elden Ring build (see above). He recently called for a “gamer” voter block, tweeting “make video games great again!” and has retweeted several gaming “culture war” tweets about so-called woke content in a number of games, adding fuel to those movements.
Whatever else you may think of him the man is…a Diablo player, that’s for sure. He is legitimately one of the top players in the world, surprisingly not just a hyperbolic exaggeration, and we’ll see if in the wake of the election he can keep playing enough to sustain that spot.
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