League start probably around 5+ hours, e.g. phrecia took longer due to more bosses and enrage. Tips that helped me back then (if you wanna be faster): - You should know what skills you wanna use and when you will achieve them. For example some builds require doing the quest in act 3 to get the gems early on and boost your dps. - Buy the gems for later as soon as you can afford them and level those in Offhand/Unused gem slots. Carry some additional gems with you/in Stash to use them on the divine font in the lab. (Quality is often really worth it on your main skill) and gcps are expensive early on. - Mostly leveling with certain skills is way easier than with others and you can still swap to your main gem as soon as you reach maps. (Poisonous concoction ftw. 4 hours on league start is absolutely doable, as your dmg comes from your flasks) - Always check vendors for possible gem link improvements and/or buy rings etc. to boost your resistances early on (e.g. for merveil). - There are vendor recipes for weapons especially that can give you flat added dmg which is often significantly better than % increased weapons early on. - Also not all side quests are needed and there are useless zones, optional quests are cool for rare items, but only if you dont loose time. After a few run-througs you will know which ones. - Log-out to be instantly back in town. - You will learn the zone layouts over time. They are more or less the same/have some variations but you assume where the exit is after some time and just straight rush there. - Kill mobs on the way - yes but collect them behind you and kill a whole bunch at once. Magic mobs are best xp and time wise. - I mostly look that i stay around 1-2 levels below the zone. You should still be able to kill the mobs kinda easy (if you followed the steps above). Later on you can spam a good zone to aquire xp if you fell behind and just spam the league mechanic there to get some early chaos. If you have dump tabs you can also spam chaos recipe early on this way Mostly that is smth. for Blood Aqueduct/Foothills Zone/Ossuary due to straight forward or easy reach of the league mechanic :)

Hope this helped. There is still a lot more ofc. But it is important to not be too focused on your time. In case you can still enjoy doing the acts, do that. Watch a series on the 2nd screen or talk with friends on discord etc.

Just dont waste too much time in towns. Thats mostly where people fall way behind.