Diablo 2 was released to the world 26 years ago on June 30, 2000. The game was wildly different at launch.
This is the oldest ladder screenshot I have, which was taken about two weeks after the game was released:
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@MrLlamaSC Check out this screenshot from early September, 2000, just over 2 months after launch. This was the USEast HC ladder. That's my Zon dead at #8. 2+ months after release and the 50th highest level HC char wasn't even 70! I was there at the start and the game was amazing.
D2 might not have had all the LoD 'endgame' stuff for the 1st year but the game wasn't solved for a while. Builds were discovered over time- hammerdin wasn't even a thing for several months- conversion/thorns was the meta paladin. 1.06 was the alltime best state of the game IMO.
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