the best way to avoid spam is to create games with a password. There were some issues with the latest version a while ago but i don't know if they fixed that yet or not. Slash-Diablo has its own server i.e it does not run on b.net live and it supports certain mods including the resolution mod afaik. There are some communities that are still active like d2jsp or Slash-Diablo but they usually tend to be a lot more active around ladder resets. Ladder is a lot more fun to start fresh either with friends or strangers from random communities. I used to refresh that account every once in a while so it won't get deleted but i kinda forgot at some point so i lost everything.

But if i didn't have that account, i'd probably play more ladder.

I even had 1 self found 40 life pb sk (so proud of that, still.lol). I personally played a lot of NL throughout the years because i had an amazing account with like 8 fully geared characters with sick gear and decked out with charms. Those items are typically very expensive and the average Joe will most likely never get his hands on them. Items that no longer exist, or exist but in a different version. The thing about NL is that it still has very old items like bugged eth tal armor for an example. Also, item selling websites are much cheaper for NL than they are for L so that's another way to get everything very easily. Usually, players on NL are already very rich and have all the gear they need so they won't be looking for actually making a Grief RW for an example, they can just trade for it. I don't know how accurate the information here is but this is a list of differences between ladder and non-ladder: īasically, it's a bunch of runewords, unique items and cube recipes that exist only in ladder.

Diablo 2 what is a ladder character