It's been nearly a year since Blizzard cracked open the code to Diablo II and started fiddling, but it appears that they're ready to do so again. In a forum post last night, Blizzard poster Bashlok revealed that work on content patch 1.13 has begun. He even underlined the word content, emphasizing that, indeed, it's new content, as opposed to game optimization, balance, and glitch fixing. 

The posting is below:

We’re in the process of working on Diablo II content patch 1.13, and we want to try to include the Diablo community’s most important changes in our production schedule. To achieve this we’re asking for your input on what you’d like to see in this patch. However, we’re making it a bit stricter than a full-blown wish list.

If you were to get an advance look at the patch notes for Diablo II 1.13, what is the one patch note you would want to see?

Our goal is to get an overall sense of the single most important request from every member of the community. We want as many posts as we can get for the largest cross section, so if you have friends who used to play Diablo II or just don’t frequent the forums as much as you do, let them know this is here so we can get their “#1 patch note” too.

Please be mindful that we’re not going to be able to make every change mentioned, but hopefully with your feedback we can prioritize and do our best to cover as much as possible.

A full content patch for a nearly ten year old game seems absurd, but that's sort of Blizzard's style. People on the board are suggesting everything from a shared stash to an updated Cow Level. I personally would love to see some new resolutions supported, because 800x600 just doesn't cut it anymore. Seriously, it's like playing a game on a stamp now, a little more wouldn't be insane. I also want more runewords, a new class, the ability to play as a female barbarian, and for the game to actually be Diablo III.

I've been thinking of jumping back into Diablo II recently, and it looks like this might be just the thing I need to spur that choice. Anyone else?

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