You cut off one head and 3 more spawn in its place.

There will always be cheaters, always be 3rd party, always be RMT, always be botters and dupers. I would love if ladder had meaning but it's a pipe dream. Ladder has meant nothing for years anyways. There is something to be said for stuff like that effecting the longevity of the ladder season because gearing faster means burning out faster but at the end of the day arent we all just playing ladder for the reset? I'd rather focus on the fun I have trading and playing with friends than worry about someone else getting an enigma together in the first 2-3 days.

Not like you get a prize for having your name on the leaderboard for ladder, it's a worthless game mechanic that will just be full of 99s after a week or two anyway. If they want to spend the equivalent of $100 on an item that is hard to come by, all it does is allow them to get gear faster. People with 500k jsp currency are definitely getting an advantage but so what? It's not like they ruin your experience in any way. In the first few weeks post wipe good guns and ammo are going for crazy prices because there just isn't that much of it around but a month into the wipe you can get the same stuff for pennies on the dollar. It's a FPS in which you loot guns, ammo, etc. Let's take another game with the same sort of economy, Escape from Tarkov. Items in high demand will always be more profitable in the first month or two of a wipe and slowly lose value as time goes on. When D2R was released a vmagi was going for nearly double what a ber is now. I use jsp as a resource for finding item value.

So finding a ber first week of ladder isn't going to get you more stuff on, say, traderie? What your talking about is the nature of an in game economy, a single site is not responsible for that.

Diablo 2 resurrected ladder leaderboard