Remove the Party Experience Bonus!

[Rataxes]

LoD had plenty of competition: duelling leagues were a standard feature. I daresay the ladder was already a joke, however LoD made it more of one due to the XP steroids features.

Your opinion that it was a joke. I did not find RUSSBarbs and GERBarbs achievements to be a joke. Apparently, neither did the rest of the D2 community, since their progress, and eventually the progress of other similar ladder teams who appeared on other realms, was followed with great interest by a large portion of the D2 community.

LoD, up until now, had zero competition since there was no way to measure your relative achievements. The difficulty level was such a joke that any half-assed build could survive in the toughest conditions v1.09 had to offer. The experience gains were so gross that lvl 99 characters are more common now than 70+ characters were in D2C. Again, if the display of commitment, effort and determination that high clvls in Classic were means nothing to you, I don't expect you to understand why it was a huge problem that levels could be gotten so easily and with so little effort in LoD.

PvP used to be a battle of skills, creativity and well-planned characters that could maximize their counter-player abilities while also being competent monster killers, which was an absolute necessity in Classic.

Now it's pretty much entirely a battle of items. You know that the PvP balance has gone out of control when you have to enforce dozens of item restrictions and regulations for it to be "fair".