
On the morning of Friday, February 21st, we’ll be conducting a maintenance in order to reset the Diablo II ladder.The realm will be unavailable for a. Season 8 is about to begin, get ready for the ladder reset Alongside the ladder reset we will be releasing Patch 12, changelogs can be found here. If the economy is getting out of hand, a new Ladder season will just start the economy over because everything is removed and has to be found from scratch again. Hell unleashes on Friday, 21 February 2020. Overall, Ladder in Diablo 2 is a way for Blizzard to help control the economy. These items continue to exist, however, when the Ladder characters are integrated with the non-Ladder during a reset, and these items can be quite valuable in the non-Ladder economy. Because of this, good items tend to be much more expensive in Ladder.Īdditionally, there are some items that are only available in Ladder, and cannot be dropped or created (usually via a Rune Word) in non-Ladder. Ladder characters do not have access to older items that may have been created before patches changed item drop rates or stats, or old items made by item duplication exploits.

Since Ladder characters cannot interact at all with non-Ladder characters, this means there are two separate economies going at once. Occasionally, there is a Ladder reset, where all Ladder characters are integrated into non-Ladder and Ladder characters must be created anew. The "Ladder" in Diablo 2 is essentially a scoreboard that keeps track of the top characters in each realm.
