Cheaters in Diablo 2?

[Munkay]

While maphack is still an unfair advantage (and let me reiterate that I do NOT support its use), tell me how the insane sight range and reaction time of 1.10 monsters is even marginally balanced.  Yes, a human is smarter than a computer, unless you're talking about Deep Blue.  But when you can die before you even have a chance to figure out what you're dealing with, how does that help?

1.10 is not that hard. I'm not arguing that 1.10 is exactly balanced, but a challenge is just that: a bit of lopsided battle! Otherwise, where's the challenge (and fun)? :P

At the end I'll appeal to what I've said many times before: If Blizzard wanted the game to be played with the features of maphack, it'd be in the game.

Cheers,

Munk