This time around I will be playing every ladder. when I was younger I only played non-ladder and loved joining free games. you will also find a shit ton of free games leading up to a new ladder season as some people only play ladder and dont value their characters when they move to non-ladder. With no D2R ladders yet, perhaps this reset will entice you back to classic. A fresh reset to the economy is the best feeling imo. After many ladder seasons imagine the influx of items that will be found over time- the economy in non-ladder becomes pretty weak. The reason that people play ladder is for the new runewords / items, most importantly of all in my opinion- a fresh reset to the economy, leaderboard rankings, etc. These items become extremely valuable when the season ends and all of those items move to Non-Ladder in limited quantity. Each Ladder Season offers new items / runewords ONLY obtainable in Ladder. Ladder offers a brand new start, everybody will begin on level 1 and race to 99 lvl. You will keep all your items and characters but you wont be able to compete on 1-99 rankings or play with Ladder players. Ladder reset means any characters from that Ladder Season move to Non-Ladder. Ladder characters automatically convert to Non-Ladder every 6 months (around June and December).

Diablo 2 ladder reset