All characters and items being converted to non-ladder will remain intact, but once converted these characters will no longer have access to ladder content such as creating ladder-only rune words. When the ladder is reset all existing ladder characters will be converted to non-ladder. More specific information on realm availability on the day of the reset will be posted in the Status forum. We anticipate all Diablo II realms to be down for approximately six hours during the reset. We generally prefer to provide a two week warning for the case of resets, but to hit the exact 6 month mark we feel one week is sufficient this time. We’ve heard you, so this is a one week warning that the Diablo II ladder will reset next Monday, March 28. While our original poll for reset length showed a little less than 150 people wanted a reset every year, our most recent follow up poll had over 1,000 votes for 6 months:
