Hey everyone! As we still cling desperately to the rumors surrounding Diablo III’s announcement, Blizzard has at least thrown us a bone to chew on.

The current ladder season will be ending on June 17th, as posted by Nebu…

We will be performing a Diablo II ladder reset on June 17 beginning at approximately 9:00 a.m. PDT. The reset is anticipated to require approximately six hours of downtime to complete, and during that time all Diablo II Battle.net realms will be unavailable for play. When the reset occurs all existing ladder characters will be moved to non-ladder. This provides a fresh start and new competition for leveling supremacy on the ladder realm.

Remember that this only means your current Ladder characters will just be bumped down into the pool of Non-Ladder characters (which includes characters from previous ladder seasons, and those characters from earlier versions of Diablo II).

The last time the Ladder reset, we saw a fierce competition for the first 99 character, I’m sure this time will be no different! What are your guesses as to how long it will be until we see the new, first, 99 character on the reset ladder?

And lastly, I’d like to apologize for the recent spammy comments we were inundated with, for some reason our plugins went wacky. In the course of fixing the issue, some user accounts were lost in the process, but on the upside, we’re now using reCAPTCHA, and for the time being we’ll be allowing anyone to comment without needing to register first.