When is D2R Ladder season 2 starting?

I remember them saying the cadence would be every four months. Have there been any announcements about season 2 ladder? Season 1 should be nearly over soon, given that it started late April.

Yeah season 1 started on the 28th of april.. So going by that, it should be over august 26 - 29. D3 is suppose to start around that same time too so they may space it out a bit.

Teebling wrote: 2 years ago

I remember them saying the cadence would be every four months. Have there been any announcements about season 2 ladder? Season 1 should be nearly over soon, given that it started late April.

what do you plan on playing ladder season 2? maybe we could have a poll for what season 2 character people will start on the front page, or maybe a countdown for season 2.

Udyret wrote: 2 years ago

Teebling wrote: 2 years ago

I remember them saying the cadence would be every four months. Have there been any announcements about season 2 ladder? Season 1 should be nearly over soon, given that it started late April.

what do you plan on playing ladder season 2? maybe we could have a poll for what season 2 character people will start on the front page, or maybe a countdown for season 2.

A poll/new topic for 'what you will play in s2' would be cool yeah Go ahead anyone who wants to start that off, even if it is a bit early.

Countdown will come back when I get a datetime from Blizz, it will be just like the one for S1 (hopefully I'll get the timezones right this time lol )

there are two sources who say 25th of august, but blizzard hasn't said anything yet.

so, we don't know

Seems too early for me. 2.4 was first announced in late December 2021, then we had several months of PTR testing and only at the end of April new ladder was launched. So as for now 4 months ladder schedule is unrealistic, unless the ladder is supposed to be reset without a patch, which would be very disappointing (although usual in legacy D2). Unfortunately, the days of "surprise" patches without PTR are long gone.

Trang Oul wrote: 2 years ago

Seems too early for me. 2.4 was first announced in late December 2021, then we had several months of PTR testing and only at the end of April new ladder was launched. So as for now 4 months ladder schedule is unrealistic, unless the ladder is supposed to be reset without a patch, which would be very disappointing (although usual in legacy D2). Unfortunately, the days of "surprise" patches without PTR are long gone.

The PTR testing involved all steps from starting a season to ending that season to starting the next one.

I'm sure there's some expectation in the community for a content patch to arrive in time for season 2 but solely from a ladder perspective, the mechanics are there and it isn't needed. We can move straight into S2 without a patch. Plus we don't know whether they intend for S2 to even start immediately after S1 closes or if we end up with S1 closed, a month of nothing and only then with S2.

So basically...no clue.

I expect a 2 weeks gap between the end of ladder 1 and the beginning of ladder 2.
Like what happened with the release of 2.4 and the ladder start.

I'm more curious on how they are going to transfer all the shared stashes into non-ladder stuff.

Also excited to combine all my most powerful stuff from ladder chars on my already existing non-ladder chars =w=

Peaceful_Leaf wrote: 2 years ago

I'm more curious on how they are going to transfer all the shared stashes into non-ladder stuff.

Also excited to combine all my most powerful stuff from ladder chars on my already existing non-ladder chars =w=

That part, we know.

1) Your ladder characters, along with their personal stashes, will be converted to non-ladder and act exactly the same as your existing non-ladder characters.
2) Your ladder shared stash tabs will be accessible via your non-ladder stash but will be read-only tabs, meaning you can grab all of your stashed ladder gear and move it to your non-ladder chars/stash.
3) Once season 2 ends, your read-only shared stash tabs from season 1 are deleted and replaced with the ones from season 2. So make sure you grab everything you want out of them before that happens.

Peaceful_Leaf wrote: 2 years ago

I'm more curious on how they are going to transfer all the shared stashes into non-ladder stuff.

Also excited to combine all my most powerful stuff from ladder chars on my already existing non-ladder chars =w=

Me too! I'm hoping to trade for a

Windforce on Ladder because I happened to find one I could afford but only have a bowazon on NL, which is currently dithering between

Eaglehorn, Goldstrike, and Harmony.

Lord-Jonty wrote: 2 years ago

Peaceful_Leaf wrote: 2 years ago

I'm more curious on how they are going to transfer all the shared stashes into non-ladder stuff.

Also excited to combine all my most powerful stuff from ladder chars on my already existing non-ladder chars =w=

Me too! I'm hoping to trade for a

Windforce on Ladder because I happened to find one I could afford but only have a bowazon on NL, which is currently dithering between

Eaglehorn, Goldstrike, and Harmony.

See above.
(Go for it - if you can wait until season end that is)

cheers for that Schnorki

Schnorki wrote: 2 years ago

Lord-Jonty wrote: 2 years ago

Peaceful_Leaf wrote: 2 years ago

I'm more curious on how they are going to transfer all the shared stashes into non-ladder stuff.

Also excited to combine all my most powerful stuff from ladder chars on my already existing non-ladder chars =w=

Me too! I'm hoping to trade for a

Windforce on Ladder because I happened to find one I could afford but only have a bowazon on NL, which is currently dithering between

Eaglehorn, Goldstrike, and Harmony.

See above.
(Go for it - if you can wait until season end that is)

I went for it

There's little chance I'll find it myself before the season ends so why not?

Janet the Java wrote: 2 years ago

Schnorki wrote: 2 years ago

Lord-Jonty wrote: 2 years ago

Me too! I'm hoping to trade for a

Windforce on Ladder because I happened to find one I could afford but only have a bowazon on NL, which is currently dithering between

Eaglehorn, Goldstrike, and Harmony.

See above.
(Go for it - if you can wait until season end that is)

I went for it

There's little chance I'll find it myself before the season ends so why not?

Even if, you can always just sell it again.
Either way, congrats!

@Teebling How diablo2.io will handle the ladder's end regarding listed trades?
Will the ladder tag be removed automatically or do we need to do that ourself?

Tetra wrote: 2 years ago

@Teebling How diablo2.io will handle the ladder's end regarding listed trades?
Will the ladder tag be removed automatically or do we need to do that ourself?

I'll have a few things to do, but yes one of them will be resetting all trades to Non-Ladder status when the patch goes live. You won't need to do this yourself.

Btw, Blizzard's global community lead replied on Twitter to a direct question that PTR should be sometime mid-to-late August, or however you want to interpret what he wrote;
https://twitter.com/PezRadar/status/155 ... nbi2P_0Ibg

Teebling wrote: 2 years ago

Tetra wrote: 2 years ago

@Teebling How diablo2.io will handle the ladder's end regarding listed trades?
Will the ladder tag be removed automatically or do we need to do that ourself?

I'll have a few things to do, but yes one of them will be resetting all trades to Non-Ladder status when the patch goes live. You won't need to do this yourself.

Any chance for a "don't convert this one!" check we can place to keep them as ladder? My WTB ones will be just as applicable to S2 as they are now, sadly.
(Well, assuming the weather stops being so phenomenal again by then and I actually log in again for a change for s2)

Perhaps Schnork yeah - I need to put my head down and have a good think about it tbh (getting site ready for S2).