The minions of hell grow stronger and are looking for a fight! We are scheduling to reset the Diablo II ladder on Friday, June 4th at 5:00PM PT in all regions.
Please note that we will be taking Diablo II down across all regions at 2:00pm PT prior to the ladder reset. Diablo II online services will not be available during this time and will be back online at 5:00pm PT for the start of the new ladder.
Mods can do lots of things that can not be done on Bnet because the mods are not required to fit into (or work within) the limitations defined by the server and the other programs running on Bnet. Think how long it would take to download a 30+k stash of varying items, for example. No download needed when that is already on your system because of the mod. No mod = no 30+k items in inventory/stash.
They only confirm via the actual ladder reset announcement which will be pinned in this forum. They sometimes will answer a couple of questions in that post.