The fastest player in Path of Exile 2 looks like hes playing as a music visualizer. Lightning bolts ping-pong across the screen in sync with the breakneck beats hes been blasting for the past nine hours on Twitch. Hes racing to be the first player in the world to hit the action RPGs max level, and the competition is fierce.Andrew TidesofTime Biessener is level 98, just two levels shy of the finish line at level 100. And so are the eight other players right behind him, according to the official leaderboard. Experience gains are glacial this far into the game, but he could take the crown over the weekend if he keeps going at this pace.A former professional Dota 2 and Hearthstone player, Biessener is defining what professional PoE 2 looks like at this stage in early access, and it seems to be a screen full of lightning bolts. His Stormweaver sorceress is a conduit for serious shock damage and speed. Where other classes have to risk getting hit while aiming arrows or charging into monsters, Biesseners build does the work for him so he can teleport through maps efficiently. All he does is spam the Spark skill and watch thousands of blue bolts clear the dungeon for him.Biessener took a short break on Thursday to run through his setup on stream, but dont let his sprawling skill tree scare you. Its actually pretty simple: Everything runs on mana. One of PoE 2s passive skills overloads your shock damage based on how much mana you have, and the Mind Over Matter node in the skill tree turns your mana into your life. With no need for regular life anymore, Biessener is also running with the node that reduces it to one and makes you immune to chaos damage, the scariest damage type in the game. Hes effectively more mana than sorceress.There are five other sorceress players in the top 10 who are using a similar, if not identical, build. Such is the power of finding a single attribute in a game overflowing with them that does it all. Lucky loot drops arent even a factor at this level of play. Buying items off other players is the only way youre going to find the perfect gear, which means the race is largely a marathon of clearing through dungeons as fast as possible. One Reddit user tallied up all the different classes in the leaderboard of the top 1,000 players and its overwhelmingly Stormreaver sorceress.But second place is actually an Invoker monk who is around an hour behind Biessener, pushing him to keep going. I cant stop because the Invoker wont stop, Biessener said on his stream Friday.If Biesseners Steam profile is any indication, its taken him over 260 hours to get this far. Im not quite world record pace 60 hours in with a level 66 witch, but theres always next time.Path of Exile 2 is available in early access on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Windows PC.