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I was looking to play a patch of D2 pre synergies and after some research I found out that 1.09 is probably the best patch to do so (For balance and bug reasons). I also heard 1.07 is interesting, but Im not really interested in exploits and stuff like that... After getting Diablo2 patched to 1.09 I realised that there are actually quite a few versions of this patch (1.09a,b,c,d). So my question was which is the best/most popular version and why (for Hardcore)?

I am not looking to transfer bugged items to 1.13 or anything. Im just trying to find a nice patch to play the game without synergies to try different character builds.

Thanks for the help