{"id":184969,"date":"2024-05-28T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/?p=184969"},"modified":"2024-08-23T20:17:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T01:17:12","slug":"diablo-2-resurrected-ladder-season-8-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2024\/05\/28\/diablo-2-resurrected-ladder-season-8-start\/","title":{"rendered":"When does Diablo 2: Resurrected Ladder Season 8 start?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard tends to play coy on the details of new <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/tag\/diablo-2-ladder-seasons\/\">Ladder Season<\/a> start and end dates in <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/category\/diablo-2\"><em>Diablo 2: Resurrected<\/em><\/a> until they are imminent, but now we know that <em>D2R<\/em> Ladder Season 8 starts on August 23!<\/p>\n<p>Here are the exact release times for <em>Diablo 2: Resurrected<\/em> Ladder Season 8:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>North America: August 23, 5 p.m. PDT<\/li>\n<li>Europe: August 24, 2 a.m. CEST<\/li>\n<li>Asia: August 24, 9 a.m. KST<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re unfamiliar with the concept, <em>D2:R <\/em>Ladder Seasons basically mimic the conditions of a brand new release of the game. It is a fresh start, with a level one character, at the same time as everyone else rolls their level 1 character.<\/p>\n<p>You can choose to roll that character on one of four different types of servers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Classic<\/strong>\u00a0means you want to play through the first four acts of\u00a0<em>Diablo 2<\/em>\u00a0originally released with the title.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hardcore Classic<\/strong> is the same as Classic, but you are playing a Hardcore character where death is permanent.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Expansion<\/strong>\u00a0characters have access to play through the first four acts from\u00a0<em>Diablo 2<\/em>\u00a0and Act 5 from the\u00a0<em>Lord of Destruction<\/em>\u00a0expansion.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hardcore Expansion\u00a0<\/strong>combine the Expansion experience (all five acts) with Hardcore play (single character life and perma-death). Not for the faint of heart.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The object of a <em>D2:R<\/em> Ladder Season is to race to level 99 as fast as possible, and in so doing secure your spot on the leaderboard &#8212; and eternal glory, of course. That&#8217;s why, for many, not only the release date, but the specific time is important.<\/p>\n<p>Best of luck to everyone beginning their new characters in Ladder Season 8, starting on August 23.<\/p>\n<p><em>Originally published May 28, 2024; updated August 12, 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard tends to play coy on the details of new Ladder Season start and end dates in Diablo 2: Resurrected until they are imminent, but now we know that D2R Ladder Season 8 starts on August 23! Here are the exact release times for Diablo 2: Resurrected Ladder Season 8: North America: August 23, 5&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":144683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,75927],"tags":[76285],"yst_prominent_words":[64776,10098,52013,8662,8180,8295,64775,8179,8945,13879,8265,8571,9000,24097],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188505,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184969\/revisions\/188505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184969"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=184969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}