Diablo 4 beta’s world boss dominates with ten million player kills

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With the Diablo 4 beta coming to a close, Blizzard has shared some of the biggest numbers from the free test period, and world boss Ashava tops the rankings in style. With nearly 62 million hours of game time racked up and 2.6 million players getting at least one character to level 20 to earn the beta wolf pack reward, the Diablo 4 beta stats mark it clearly as the largest beta test in the history of the iconic PC RPG game series.

Blizzard reports a total of 61,560,437 hours played in the beta. In that time, players managed to defeat a staggering 29,252,746,339 monsters. However, when you break that down, that works out to just 475 monsters killed per hour – suggesting a lot of time spent immersed in the story, talking to characters, or poring over menus to deliberate that perfect build.

In that time, players also suffered a total of 46,924,644 deaths; working out to roughly 0.76 deaths per hour, or about one death every 45 minutes. Not too shabby. One particular culprit stood head and shoulders above the rest, however – physically as much as numerically. Ashava, the Diablo 4 world boss who appeared periodically at preset times during the beta, managed to rack up 10,163,397 player kills during the very short time it was active.

That makes Ashava responsible for nearly a quarter of all the player deaths in the beta – and, with only 107,426 total Ashava deaths, means the beast managed an impressive 100:1 kill-death ratio. Those stats far outstrip that of the Diablo 4 butcher, who managed to clock in a still-impressive 1,727,973 player kills with only 576,662 deaths during his surprise appearances.

Initially, Blizzard claimed that no-one had managed to solo Ashava, but a few videos have sprung up seemingly showing just