Crucial Tips for a Ladder Season Start - Diablo 2 Resurrected

Through answering questions I get asked while i am streaming, I have realized a lot of people make the same mistakes when on a play through or starting a ladder season. I answer some of the most asked and biggest questions about that here today.
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[@Tumasch]

Farming Nightmare Andariel can give you some nice mid level gear, especially if you are melee and/or physical. You can get lucky and get a Stone of Jordan, an incredibly powerful and valuable ring. Nightmare Mephisto, Diablo and Baal can all drop class specific items: - Arreat's Face (Barbarian) - Herald of Zakarum (Paladin) - The Oculus (Sorceress) - Bartuc's Cut Throat (Assassin) - Jalal's Mane (Druid) - The Homunculus (Necromancer) - Lycander's Aim/Titan's Revenge (Amazon) These are incredibly powerful and will make your progress much more pleasant. Farming them one difficulty lower must not be skipped. Trying to get them on hell while you are undergeared is very frustrating an probably not the most efficient.

[@rupp88]

Also farming NM cows is recommended by, for instance, MacroBioBoi, so there's some nuance there

[@danielandrews3878]

Not only that. When you are doing targeted farm it is best to do it on certain area/monster level just because the loot table is shorter. Going in Baal Hell to farm SoJ is much harder as additional unique rings are being added to loot table, greatly reducing the drop chance.

[@rupp88]

@@danielandrews3878 certainly. I've happily farmed 2 SoJs from NM Andariel :)

[@ncbob91]

Got my first vipermagi of this ladder within 10 runs earlier. Only 28 but still littt.

[@Christoff070]

Especially if you play hc

[@RolieKloeOlie]

“Do you see the mistake?” Yeah, you chose a barb and also you gotta drop that shield

[@UnStop4ble]

lol exactly my thoughts

[@phishmastermike]

Making barb as a first choice without going as a support is usually bad for new/casuals. Attack rating is shit in this game especially at beginning also weapon repairs 😂

[@danielandrews3878]

shield is not really that bad, is just slowing you down as a speed runner. For beginners shield is needed, at least for the added stats/resists, etc.

[@MrPajam12]

Yeah i just madw my first character and my choice was barb after getting lv 20 i got tilted and switched to paladin today

[@langa77777]

Tips for ladder. 1: pick sorc 2: farm resources (items until enough to farm keys, keys until enough runes from selling sets of keys for Rune words, when you're geared start farming trav/nith/chaos and cows to get your gg's) 3: once you're rich build whatever looks fun for the remainder of the season thanks for listening to my ted talk

[@langa77777]

oh yeah, hang onto the max roll stuff you find. 20/5's 40/15's high life skillers, perf facets that you arent going to use, max roll uniques etc etc. all sell for much much higher in the middle/end of a ladder season. early (first 2 weeks) no one has enough HR's to buy these things. If you're using JSP (which i dont anymore because its boring) Then this is redundant.

[@phishmastermike]

@@langa77777 ya I save so many things at beginning that sells for higher later on. It’s a nice thing I need to learn how to dual account play bc I need a second account just for muling in a season. 😂

[@georgikukov5129]

Really good tips! I agree with almost everything! Playing in a party is the way to go! Its faster and much more fun :) But i do spend some time to farm on NM. You see most of the bases you need early game drop from Cows on Nightmare as well as the runes for the runewords. Also dont be shy to run Andy on NM. Every season i dropped something from Andy. Last season i dropped a 25 Viper. It really set me up for hell and than some! My advice is to start the ladder with a character that will farm targeted hell areas. Every season im starting with a Sorc.. This season ill starting with a Paladin. He will run hammers till we kill Baal hell, and than ill most likely respec to fists. You need to consider what are you playing for, do you want to run split farm games. Or do you want a character that will solo farm.. Than you consider the character and last the build. So for season 3 im intending to casually farm chaos, stony tombs, pit and tunnels so Enigma is not really essential for me, thus im starting with a Paladin. First ladder i wanted to split farm a lot.. so i had a full tall set fire sorc with infinity and all the end game gear which as Phil mentioned i obtained by farming a lot and trading a lot. So thats my advice. Good luck to all, may the Ber runes rain upon you this season ;)

[@CocoDiChiara]

Nice video as usual, keep up Phil i love your content. This time i´ll start ladder with trapsin and check the last changes in S3. May RNG bless us all🙌

[@azdaze227]

I'd say a specifically made fireball/orb sorc is perfectly viable and was one of the best starter classes before sunder charms. Usually multiple classes is definitely bad, but there are certain builds that can really make it shine.

[@the8thark]

The other pieces of advice are get a merc with a different damage element to yourself. There are a few things you need to kill in there game that will be immune to your own damage type and a Merc will help out with that. Noting well that cold and fire immune at the same time is a thing for a few of the elites you need to kill to progress so if you are cold or dire then getting some physical damage from your merc helps. A1 mercs also do some physical damage so they are an option along with A2 and A5 mercs. Also farming in Normal and NM to ready yourself for the next difficulty is fine. I agree with Phil that do not farm too long. Just enough to get some gear to move on. Farming Terror Zones is probably the best bey for that gear. Low and mid tier rune words are rather good to aim for as well. You can use a separate levelling spec, then respected into your different final build. But you do not have to. You can start with the main build too. Neither option is wrong. It's all up to how you want to play the game.

[@jkoenig2677]

Or better yet: dont get a merc until you really need it because its a waste of time and money

[@the8thark]

@@jkoenig2677 That is good advice too. Though by the time you hit the immunes in the latter stages on Nightmare difficulty you need it. Also the other abilities of mercs can be very helpful. A2 Merc auras. A1 Merc inner sight and freezing enemies. A5 Mercs have taunt or stun. A3 fire does have enchant and A3 lighting does have static field for those who want to try and make an A3 Merc work.

[@stephennewton2777]

My top tip? Play the way you enjoy most. Not particularly bothered about screaming through Normal & NM? Do you actually enjoy farming/gambling at those levels? You may be looking to twink your other chars. Play the way you want with the character you want at the level you want using the speed you want. Enjoy.

[@JohnCostanzo]

My issue is I really cannot grasp trading. I have watched so many videos and it just flys over my head

[@Svf84]

Use Traderie. It's so easy. You don't even need to list a price, just ask for offers and wait for a couple to come in. You can even see what other paid (with in-game items) recently for the same item.

[@theventhatiqtho8112]

​@@Svf84 I look up every single item I get that looks have way decent there.

[@MadMaxJuggernaut]

Another great thing is getting a A1 cold arrow merc as a sorc because you can moat trick without the merc dying.

[@askmedov]

wow that's actually a great idea! They can now use Insight, which helps too

[@UnStop4ble]

damn thats a good idea

[@emeryweaver3796]

I had a question that could possibly be a good video for you. I just recently got the remake and learned about the ladder seasons, and am wondering if you can join them too late, or how to go about catching up with people. Or if it really matters at all in a lot of ways. I used to love playing this game way back in the day on our old family computer lol this game's new facelift it's pretty damn nice even though I had just as much fun with the original if not more maybe in some ways considering the time.

[@scottdurflinger8527]

One more- make sure you create a Ladder character :) I don't know how many times I've started a new char only to realize at lvl 10 I was playing NL.

[@amb221989]

oof. been there in OG d2.

[@phishmastermike]

Ya I do that in d2 and d3 lol

[@DustinJames-mk1gl]

Level 10 is like 5 minutes into the game

[@JoblessBuhdda]

Also don’t trust playing w strangers good drops and they grab so u don’t get them ….

[@psychofury6485]

annoyingly, fire is the most common immunity (from my exp anyway), yet most are easily killed, the worst is Lightning, if your pure lightning build, act 3 to 5 hell, is a absolute pain imo

[@TasosXalaros]

You are so right about not playing Solo at start of a the ladder THO, in my case at least, none of my friends playing Diablo 2 so is kinda hard to find ppl to play with and sadly randoms arent the best option. So in some cases Solo is the only way to play.

[@azza4044]

I'm never solo, I have all my skellies and merc!

[@deldalus]

I planned to play solo self-found barb this season so tldr; I'm a mistake. nice :') anyway, good luck everyone on new ladder !

[@CreationsVibration]

I play solo bnet, I found so much good stuff I didn't even need to trade for anything

[@NickAndCaroline]

After I went to single player, never playing ssf on bnet again. The players difficulty setting is too good to lose. I did try making a barb, I struggled around 70 and threw in the towel. I feel no pressure for a ladder race, it’s kinda nice not gonna lie haha.

[@deldalus]

@@NickAndCaroline only sad thing for singleplayer is that I can't try new stuff (in this case S3 runewords) so yeah, gonna struggle with SSF and keep this stubborn selfish challenge to myself xD

[@entarork1]

I am considering doin ssf barb on ladder too! You are not alone my friend 🙂. It keeps the game fresh for longer than to get sorc, farm stuff equip on barb. Feels undeserving to use stuff barb didnt found himself.

[@Kwioresma]

​@@deldalus last season runewords worked perfectly fine in offline single player. Flickering flame for example is doable

[@atreides6031]

Good tips! Gotta say though: Playing solo is not a crucial mistake, it's just a matter of personal preference. Same for playing with other people. Sometimes you want to, and sometimes you don't - either way is fine. HC player here, btw! :D

[@dustinjames1268]

At least when you're trying to level up you need to work with a group. Doing things solo wastes several hours, and every time you waste time you fall behind the curve

[@atreides6031]

@@dustinjames1268 Sure, if efficiency is important to you, then playing with a group is definitely the fastest leveling. I'm just staying that it's a choice, and not necessarily a crucial mistake.

[@abyss6945]

Awesome vid but also remember that most of us aren't blessed with gaming friends so teaming up is hard. Having to rely on randoms is risky lol😂

[@JTGonz]

There's tons of ways to find a team. Discords, reddit, d2jsp forums. You root out the assholes that just want to snag gear pretty quickly well before anything actually valuable drops if thats what you mean by risky

[@abyss6945]

@@JTGonz appreciated but I mean in my experience I've joined to have the host leave a minute later, and yes loot ninjas haha. I did a discord when the game released on Switch and again it was tricky because most players were US where I'm UK, time difference etc.

[@OfficialPepe]

@@JTGonz Using d2jsp makes you an asshole by default in my opinion.

[@Bassflower666]

Biggest wish for d2r would to be able to adjust player difficulty in online games. Would make such a huge impact to SSF. Would also make botting a lot worse though, but that's a problem blizzard won't really fix anyway.

[@SwashBuccaneer]

Agreed there. Kinda annoying and frustrating when you have no friends that want to play this game and all of these videos are like DoNt pLaY aLoNe. When you're solo you're stuck either running 1 player games or hopping into matches with randos that instantly pick up everything (wondering of there's some sort of hack or tool they're using to insta grab stuff at certain color). I guess I should have done offline, but when I started play8ng the game I didn't know how the player count affected loot and thought maybe my friends would decide to join me down the road.

[@relyks8645]

@@SwashBuccaneer Yeah and playing with randos is a guarantee that high runes are gonna get scooped probably a lot faster than you can grab em.

[@smalps-gaming]

Great tips! Thanks Phil 🤙🏼

[@PAwader]

Great tips big phil

[@illominatedHD]

Things not to do at start of ladder: leave a white monarch on the ground like seen at 2:40 ... ;)

[@SeeYouInHeeLL]

Paladin always start in holy fire , respect on start hell to foh or hammer

[@diosdadojrlubiano7674]

what happens to ladder items when the current ladder ends?

[@philipschroeder5427]

Hmm, my first guess for the mistake you made would have been not to buy stamina potions before going out. But if you want to level up fast, Trist runs seem the best way to start, I guess. Concerning the "Don't farm too much in normal or nightmare", I got a question. I understand that you are looking for a ton of different items. But I like to first of all not die so much when teleporting into some group of archers or mana leech ghosts or just any group that would instantly kill me one hell, which is about everything when I got bad gear. So if I wanted to get a skin of the viper magi, which has treasure class 36,wouldn't it be the best choice to do lots of normal chaos runs. As all 4, Diablo, Lord de Seis, Grand Vizier of Chaos and Infector of Souls all have TC 36? If I would do higher runs like in hell, I would find more higher items, but the chances to find something from that TC 36 would be much lower.

[@aaronburdon221]

Been harping about this for awhile, but we need a way to crack gems. a p gem cracks into 2 flawless. flawless to 2 regulars etc etc. It'll help those with shitty luck finding runes to get higher runes with hard work instead of just blind luck. I've played for 20 years and found a total of 3 high runes and nothing higher than an ohm. That way we can blitz the countess out and crank up lower runes . I have so many thuls, sols, dols, and it's a pain to level them up.

[@mellfromhell2419]

Good tipps, tyvm! Could you also do a short vid for SSF players, or is thhe advice basicallly the same minus multiplayer and trading?

[@gooki123]

Nova is a good skill and popular for early game too.

[@a.f.331]

not very mana efficent. that is the main problem.

[@Vondarkstar]

Solo self found is definitely still a thing mr!

[@renehansen2922]

With loot system as it is now... then group play with random loot goblins is no fun at all.. then I'd rather play solo :)

[@jensundsoweiter9022]

True

[@Trodai2020]

Hardcore singer barb always does me good high survivable and physical dmg kills everything for farming early runes

[@Goemanix1106]

Me: Tries to enter a 8 player party to finally clean act 3 as a nova sorc. The party: 3 other nova sorc, 2 trapsin and 2 javazon. Good luck breaking those immunes, i feel like act 3 will be a real pain for a lot of players since lightning build are so popular as starter

[@Artesanatogsc]

act 3 is a hell

[@zaph1987]

Act 3 is easy. Run past 95 percent of enemies while downing rows of potions.

[@cryovox1]

Any idea on how to get the game working. Says I have requirements to run it but still get the “failed to initialize graphics device” any advice would be appreciated.

[@NickAndCaroline]

Solid tips buddy thanks. Will I play ladder 🤔🤔🤔

[@danielandrews3878]

One big mistake is not knowing how to fully use horadric cube. For example I rarely see players in normal craft savage weapons for Act 2 Merc, which early on can be a huge damage boost.

[@frankenstein3163]

Good pointers. As for dulled ele.. I'll be cheating with 2 accts at same time. One being enchant and other being demonbow with max fire mastery(hope it lets me dubbel dip even though enchant was not casted by me) and nova or orb !? HC this season :)

[@eclipse369.]

Don't speed. Take your time. Enjoy. Walk, don't run. Or speed Or in between

[@megamnn1]

Hi Phil. I don't know how to investigate this, but do you get more runes the more you use them? Got a zod today and my play time is only 99 hours single player . As a noob i want to make all the runewords and I cube runes as well.

[@danielroybal8008]

So you say don't kill every type of monster, but what about situations like right before the Diablo fight where I was on my fire trap assassin and one of the required mobs to unlock the fight was fire resistant? Luckily enough I was an Assassin and had melee, but what if it was my sorcerer?

[@eclipse369.]

Play how you want. Personally I kill everything everywhere.

[@danielroybal8008]

@@eclipse369. I mean I'm the same way but I'm just saying if something is immune to fire and I'm playing a fire only sorceress, if I need the guy for a quest I'm kind of screwed.

[@kyledonegan9398]

What if you have no one to play with

[@timderoche7838]

Playing on playstation, there's no in game communication, makes it near impossible to do trades

[@psnsnowmanz]

What are your thoughts on a sorceress start? Blizzard? Hydra? Lightning? Trying to farm bosses.

[@SweetPhil]

Blizzard is the best/easiest imo.

[@psnsnowmanz]

@@SweetPhil thanks for the response! Been playing for a bit over a decade but only recently got into looking up KZbin videos for the game. Yours are pretty good, keep it up!

[@franz009franz]

only solo, only ingame trading. that's my way. that's the way i enjoy it. and i'm still quicker than most LUL

[@torpilo]

1:09 No, it's not.

[@Last_Bulbasaur]

WAITING ON THIS

[@danilozivkovic7727]

ppl are an1 here have exp with D2R and using ZClient pls help me with me problem i when to drag D2 .exe into launcher nothing hapent ,.,,, how to start game ...

[@TheSnackAttackingSnorlax]

I can’t wait !!! Anyone got a spot in a group ?

[@HoGji1337]

Do you stream on twitch or here on youtube?

[@Bob-zb7bv]

Early nova sorc key farming and either making a cheap smiter or just trading 4x4s has been by far the best way I have made currency early ladder.

[@langa77777]

i agree.

[@KMFlivin]

What if we have jobs and can’t

[@luckysniper1659]

So a year later therefore irrelevant. I duel speced my sorceress and she's definitely not good. On the other hand I don't have a bunch of skillers and it probably wouldn't be better to do one at this point and I'm guessing the guide I followed was to beat the game solo on hell. But now that I have I'm having a hard time figuring out what to do with her. I play on console and blizzard kind of sucks but like I said going full lighting won't help me because I'm maxed out with the current gear unless I went energy shield which I might actually do.

[@RandoBox]

Is discord the only way to connect with other people?

[@phishmastermike]

Nightmare charsi res mf items will help carry you just do that. Some vendors gloves can help Java attack speed or Malah item or Anya weapons I believe.

[@viperswhip]

I only play HC, Softcore has ZERO fucking danger until you get to the 95+ level range, HC adds the danger that Diablo 1 had.

[@johanw6137]

Always playing solo and starting as fire assa. op and still broken dmg and perfect for cowruns in hell, just max all fire dmg and death sentry then its easy games

[@THEeltfreak]

Thanks for pointing out the BIG flaws of this game!

[@SaiGetaSama]

only good thing bout ladder is makin some good fg in the early game

[@DePoRtEd20]

Most Important Thing: D2JSP and Credit Card LOL

[@Veldrynvs]

You don't need to pay for FG. You can trade your (not needed) own items in the early season and earn a lot of FG. An early shako can be worth more than a late Enigma.

[@OSUGoliath]

i play solo and i dont have a problem getting a full geared toon in 1-2weeks... all about efficiency =]

[@OfficialPepe]

My mistake was starting with Wind Druid after hearing big content creators talking pre season how good it would be. Surprise: Its not.

[@RedDragonFlayer]

Is D2r even worth playing

[@viperswhip]

The speed runners all use Nova lol

[@toddkilber1971]

Don't sleep on those low mid tier rune words never used rhyme till this season 2 run cuz of issue with finding raven frost at first had shael eth within a couple quick runs for these ruins....cannot not be frozen is so crucial plus some other useful abilities i highly recommend for cheap budget use

[@mrhappystore8611]

d2jsp ruins the game

[@danielmcnabb9634]

Just pay to win bs but hey we all love d2 soo 🤷

[@JTGonz]

until you realize d2jsp is a game in and of itself

[@ramoncolonx12]

D2jsp was fun during ladder last season i started with o fg n got 6k off trading

[@StandardEnvy]

Jsp is a big reason this game survived

[@chrisp2227]

Since Currency on JSP can be acquired from whatever and transfered over resets it's really lame. Sure if you use it i bet it feels better than not but still so lame to me.

[@joepark8753]

What time is it start?

[@thruntroll2983]

5pm pst

[@thruntroll2983]

Thursday

[@mickhick619]

Why does everyone have to act like not having friends is a mistake 😂😂

[@cl8804]

sweet

[@attractivegd9531]

im high af

[@joezhou4356]

Have to disagree with parties. Bots are the friendliest players on bnet.

[@goshu7009]

The best starter for Sors is always Fire, because of the +3 Fire Skill staff (Tir-Ral). What i do is start on Fire ball ,but only 10 points on it and not more then 5 points on Fir Bolt. So i open the cold tree and on 30 lvl i start Frozen orb, Cold Mastery. In this way, i do not respec, and i have 2 elements. Frozen orb is maxed out from 30-50 lvl, so nightmare is easy. At Hell, you continue to Fire build and max Fire Ball. So you have Fire Ball on left click and Frozen orb on some key, teleport on right key and voalla ;P

[@brosephbroheim6428]

Static + Nova is an incredibly strong start. Not saying yours doesn't work but I don't know about best. lvl 20+ static does some extreme work. You don't even need the nova to be an effective team mate.

[@skyq4062]

prefer orb/hydra

[@goshu7009]

@@brosephbroheim6428 Sure. But if i start with Nova, i would start with Frozen Orb + Static field and later add Nova in Hell.

[@bfelf]

I love SSF

[@maulyew]

Tip 1 is a bit useless for people who have no friends that still play d2 :/

[@JoblessBuhdda]

Need friends that play the game unfortunately I only have one on Xbox that plays and he limited on time.

[@John-ev3rm]

I already know I don't want to race the time clock when luck of the drop plays a larger part in success than playing skills, ( longer range strategic and tactical decisions being the playing skills referred to here),.... so no ladder for me give me a permanent character. WestWinds #1753

[@victoriaschmidt5065]

HC 4 life

[@Mewtwo-hy4fe]

f of they tack all gear

[@generaladvance5812]

I don't have any friends who play this game so I've fallen at the first hurdle.

[@Shwarz88]

Public games, you’re welcome.

[@bivdog]

Get into some discords and join up

[@bacon-SG]

@@Shwarz88 Public games are mostly worthless from item find view, exp is nice tho. I've played lots of public games, never managed to get a single item. And the moment you go off path people will tell you that's BM.

[@Damtan01]

join a discord group or a D2 community. I joined a d2 community managed by a small youtuber. we have about 100+player which planned to trade only in this discord for S3. No forum no anything. Makes it much more interresting.

[@UnStop4ble]

reddit, jsp (even if you dislike it, still very nice to meet other d2 players), discord - just some of the many sites where you can find people that are also looking for others to play with =)

[@jarlfisk]

JSP = people got full bis on day 4. No thank you, boring as fuck and ruined the game for me.

[@karolnie212]

Casuals will always cry about jsp, truth is there is no other way to trade some items, while some ppl consider Ber expensive other spend 200 HRs in fg or more on 1 item. Also amount of fg you can make early ladder is crazy, jsp pretty much saved d2c and d2r.

[@MrDarkBM]

All the starter builds are so boring anymore

[@pokemonfan2630]

I started my first d2r ladder with a zealer and it was pretty fun, i might be done with ladders too though, but we get sunder charms on single player so we can mess with some new builds.

[@techadventures6645]

the best tip ? you bought your computer in 2017 and it was lightning fast at that time ? well I'll let you know it's not good enought to play D2R even with the old graphisms. you just gonna crash every game you join and uninstall this 20 years old game.

[@danielandrews3878]

There are a lot of ways to "play" the game, but sorry, most of them are "cheat" the game and cheat yourself. Softcore multiplayer is the biggest lie you can tell yourself, just because your own actions output can range from godly to absolute zero. If you're new to the game, you'll finish hell mode without understanding anything from the game.(well, yes, actually that's softcore, you just bang your head to a wall till the wall cracks, just because head won't crack). If you want to actually feel the game, yes, finish game once for story in softcore, then go hardcore, it is the only true challenge of the game. And to come a bit more on the "cheat". You want to know how much can you cheat both game and yourself ? That's easy, just find youtubers going for 1st place 99 on ladder. You'll see that 80% of the leveling is done by others, by creating games, revealing the map (and specially shrines), opening portals for the boosted one, donating gear drops, stacking 7 more useless chars in a game just to get to players 8 XP, etc, etc. So yes, welcome to the wonderful rank system that actually ranks nothing, specially on softcore :) (Ok, it ranks something, it actually ranks time spent, still in an unfair way, as it depends primarily on the amount of help you get, not on your own time and quality of gameplay).

[@MidnightPausch]

Tips for ladder reset: 1. Ignore ladder reset. 2. Apply for a minimum wage job. 3. Spend your paychecks on forum gold at d2jsp 4. Keep doing this until season 4 start. 5. Use your new hoard of wealth to play whatever you want next season.

[@stevet109]

Softcore is for noobs

[@Excaliber158]

Start sorc. End of story

[@Blacknight200]

Here is my pro tip, wait for Diablo 4 or patch 2.7….lol. 2.6 doesn’t do enough to hold my attention for 1 minute.

[@DER_elli]

i hope 2.7 patch notes were all you couldve dreamed of and more lol

[@Blacknight200]

@@DER_elli pffffffffff eff outta here...lol

[@turbompson4546]

Man, Phil has a hardon for the Sorc class. Spends half the video talking about it. Branch out Phillip, don't gotta be like everyone else. Play a different class for once.

[@MeatSwingKing]

Everyone else is like Phil.

[@joeyanthony7831]

I love diablo 2 because no blacks play it

[@Anthony-uz5tj]

last

[@bane9685]

He who is last shall be first

[@gervasiorossini9197]

Agree with everything but, D2 is a singleplayer game that barely support multiplayer gaming.

[@AR0629.]

I hate D2R multiplayer 'push'. Just for trades anything else fuck it!

[@yay6586]

😍

[@likemusicnotcomments]

best tip. quit using jsp you arent experiancing a real ladder reset...your just playing the same account for 20 years...its dumb

[@evelyneverlasting9038]

First

[@splashmynutz]

100th