Diablo II: Resurrected PTR Arrives January 12

• 2022-01-13 16:56:07
• Diablo 2 Resurrected Leveling 1-80

Grab your weapons! Blizzard has announced that the PTR for database and server upgrades goes live on January 12th. This is the back end PTR first, with the 2.4 content following 'shortly after.' No mention yet of the date for 2.4 or when Ladder starts.
Notes from Developer Interview
Seems like community likes the 4 month duration, which was announced previously.
This upcoming Ladder Season will have exclusive Runewords
When the Season ends, characters will be moved to standard. Items will be in withdraw-only stash tabs.
Future Ladder Seasons will likely have some exclusive Runewords.
Looking at class changes, Blizzard wants to focus on maintaining class fantasy.
Blizzard is looking at many animation times and casting delays, per ability.
A Public Test Realm will become available before Patch 2.4's PTR, to test server stability.
Class changes are not finalized, will be tested on Patch 2.4 PTR.
Blizzard looking at redesigning the Diablo Clone, to make it more accessible to a larger audience.
Players will not receive more character slots or stash tabs.
Under utilized Unique items will not receive buffs.
Loot filters are not on the table as of right now.

No specific recipes were offered, although there was a clue that they planned to bring back versions of two old mystery Runewords that were found years ago in game files that never made an appearance in game, Plague and Pattern . They did say that they wished to make some Runewords that used lesser-used Runes, and that they wanted to fill in some gaps in the current Runewords.