newbie question about ladder

[adeyke]

Ladder characters exist only on the realms. There's a checkbox at the bottom of the screen when you make the character, like for the Hardcore/Softcore option. And, like that option, Ladder characters cannot join non-Ladder games, and vice versa. Any ladder character, as well as any Open or SP or TCP/IP character, can use the ladder-only recipes, but non-ladder realms characters can't. The ladder-only items can drop only in ladder (or Open or SP or TCP/IP) games, but there's no guarantee that you'll ever see one. It's still just luck finding them.