Can I play classic Diablo 2 (pre-LoD) on Resurrected?

Blizzard wrote:

We're even keeping the mode of playing non-expansion character as well. So you can still play a classic Barbarian for example.

Andre Abrahamian - Lead Designer 24:44 19th Feb 2021

Blizzard wrote:

It's very much a mode we wanted to keep, based on popularity it might not be as much but it's still part of the game and it still leads to interesting ways of playing too. A lot of its even data-driven too.

A lot of the reasons to keep it were clear to us. Let's make sure we're not taking something away from this remaster.

Andre Abrahamian - Lead Designer 25:08 19th Feb 2021

I'm guessing that 'classic' D2 characters will also have the same balancing changes from pre patch 1.07, say at patch 1.06 just before LoD hit.