The way I plan to use it is to put my self-buffs on it and utility spells so that my F keys are much easier to manage and find. Instead of my 8 F keys I’ll have way less lol
I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure even Blizzard North envisioned a D2 with controller support, and felt D2 would be played great and feel great with controller, but they never got around to it, and settled on only M&K, because controllers for PC games wasn’t much of a thing back in 2000. So idk why you’re so against controller support, and making what controller support offers, available to M&K, is only a good thing. And this is coming from me, as OG D2 player as there is, who used to swear that M&K for D2 was the only way and it could never be improved. Well guess what. I was wrong. What they’re doing for M&K players by adding this, is great. I think Blizzard North would approve. So I think we should too.
The more trash classic andies quit the better it is for the game.
it’s also d3 players crying about it
we kept the game alive and would have kept this one 20 longer. you casuals will be gone within 3 months anyway
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“Alive” D2 was dead since 2005. And be honest most people who still played this crap was because of mods.
D1 had a PSOne release. D3 obviously had console release, D4 will.
D2 is the strange one on that pattern.
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Holy **** , purists show every single day how stupid they are. This is just moronic . Expect more changes . I bet you’ll lose your **** when they add in rune , gem, and even jewel stacking.
Skill Bars/Single Click actions were not a D3 invention. D2’s skill hotkeys were behind the times at launch out of the box for the Action/Action-RPG/Hack and Slash genres. Look at the original Zelda on NES and GB that had two keys to control actions (controller limitations) then Link to the Past on SNES had two actions as well, but utilized their extra buttons on the controller well enough for passive ability upgrades (dashing with Pegasus Boots rather than having to select them from the menu to use). Then look to Ocarina of Time on the N64: Multiple action buttons in 1997. D2 was released in 2000? With a keyboard and mouse as a controller with how many buttons, yet only two active skills and an awkward work around system to change them?
As for the part I actually quoted, I believe it wasn’t the Bnet vets that kept the game alive, but a combination of mods, streamers, speedrunners, and the single player community. Bots kept Bnet alive; massive amounts of bots running bots on top of more bots running bots…and the rmt community. Even popular D2 streamers ran Bnet for what, a week or two at ladder reset to rush through Hell and Ubers with a team, then buggered back off to their mods, whether Plugy or private servers.
Well at least all those buttons on my Razer Naga will have a use again.
so you’re saying bots kept the game alive? ok. why were the bots running and why were rmt sites still a thing?
because there were many players still playing lol
How would you know? Did you play it since 2005? Oh wait, you probably weren’t born then.
More seriously D2 was alive and kicking, still is.
That said I’m all for the skillbar 
no it hasn’t been lol. there were communities with 1000s of players in them even before lol
just because you assume it was dead, doesn’t mean it was.
i had no problems finding full games at all hours the past 20 years
I didn’t say that there were not people playing. However, if you took all the bots out of legacy D2, your population wouldn’t be very rosy. The last two times I played legacy on bnet (2018 Q2 ladder reset and 2020 June reset), you barely seen anyone playing in normal and nightmare except on baal runs, parking games, bot chants and trading. And if a bot wasn’t running Baal, there were NO baal games. Then in Hell, multiple bots were running ChaosBaal at once.
i just want to know what “Balance” is. is it a secret? shall we guess?
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I’m probably older than you kid. I played D2 non stop from 2000-2003 after that i started to play MMOs. By 2005 I didn’t even know or cared if anyone was playing D2 because at that point the game was abandonware sprinkled only with bots and the hopelessly addicted.
so then how can you claim it was dead if you never cared about it after 2005 
Because at that point the game was old and abandoned by Blizzard. We also had a lot of better options such as RO, WoW, SWG and FFXI to fill that online rpg thirst.
I was an adult when D2 released so yea …
And D2 was (is) still alive and kicking, feel free to say otherwise, I clearly can’t stop you from spewing fake info.
If you think that abandonware games with a few active players are alive and kicking than this discussion is pointless because no matter what I say you won’t agree and vice versa. So lets just agree to disagree.