End of Ladder Season

[NuurAbSaal]

Once most of the ladder players have 3 or 4 of every item and runes have been duped such that everyone and their pets own a few BotD weapons, what's the point of even having a ladder?

I played on the D2 ladder a lot. At least 4 hours a day, more on weekends. The highest rune I ever found was one Pul, then some Lems. Upgrading allowed me to get two times El to Lum (does this make sense?), but any of the new Runewords are presently FAR beyond my reach, I still have (had) hope to put together one by upgrading runes. Trading for runes or runewords is not an option for me as I consider all highlvl runes to be dupes (which they most likely are). If you play straight, you are screwed anyway, so why not let us keep the Ladder-only features? Oh wait, I'm complaining about the b.net #$%&heads again, not about the ladder reset. Wipe all of the dupes, the bots and the hacker-accounts, leave the rest as is. The whole idea of the ladder WAS to start with nothing, only there are (sadly) different ways to change that state for your chars.

Sorry if I'm turning this into another "OMG play legit" rant.


Greetings

Nuur


EDIT: cleared it up a bit