I think D2:R looks really cool!

comment on op point about assassin

Yes sir! I think the Assassin looks really cool!

Anyone know why blizzard people didn't patch? SOMEONE must know them.

https://www.gog.com/forum/diablo/holy_sht_boycott_diablo_2_resurrected/post10

See this pic posted here.

The assassin must be athletic, not ordinary couchbound/officebound woman. What you think looks very cool has no muscle of any kind.

Lazyness, greed, hybris, elitism, self-competition (a fixed D2 vs D3? D3 would have lost ton of money).

So the game industry is doomed unless they "FIX" a Diablo II Ressurrected class?

Someone could say the new assassin looks chubby, when compared to the original, I get that. I don't get why that's such a big deal, neither why people should raise their pitchforks to intimidate Ressurected developers. I hope they don't cater to your desires, in the end.

Do you remember how far your character is, most of the time? There's no in-game close-ups or anything, while you're exploring crypts and other areas.
So you're getting infuriated for the very few occasions you'll see the assassin in higher detail, like the class selection screen.

The class-selection screen is IMPORTANT!

But gameplay-wise the martial-arts skills suck, half of them don't do proper damage, I don't think the attack/defense stats ever got applied, poison damage is entirely messed up, just like the DOT-based fire traps, block gets in the way constantly, likely Mind Blast was a disaster too, and the shuirken-skills were entirely useless.

The only use of assassin had was with lighning traps farming Nihlatak for keys - naturaly the keys entered solo gameplay without doing anything, AND you could kill Nihi&co from so far away, the program did not register the kill...

Why don't we just forget the entire class?

Why did you agree with something that doesn't make sense. Don't argue for arguments sake. They're wrong and you're wrong.

Assassin wasn't properly balanced, hence why I decided to not sunk hours on end trying to collect ears in PVP, with that character. Or even play with the character while logged in Battlenet.

She's not a bloody mercenary(NPC) focused in battling monsters, she's a playable character, have some respect for the players. It's insulting how crappy an assassin is in PVP.

Do you think they will try to fix balance issues, in the new edition? That would be the only reason for me to give a chance to this class. I'm not interested in using it in SP campaign, again.

Given that they couldn't find the effort to balance out, like anything, or solve basic issues, no, I don't think so.
Because the problem is not just with Asassin. Take a look at the others:

- druid: any build demanded way too many points, and each build focused on one damage type. This could kill the druid to start with (a SP druid literaly gets stuck in like Nightmare Act 5 because the hedgehogs freeze its minions to death, the result of no rsistances of any element gained for pets), but then the class also suffered from the DOT-damage-bug, which caused (because of engine-problems) like half the damage promised on the character sheet/character tree. All those Fissure-damage and the other fire spells - nothing.
- paladin: it was a solid class, but compare anything with spirithammer. Which was like a bug. The class' best relied always on some bug by the way if you look it after.
- sorcerer: Inferno was killed by the DOT-bug, Mana-shield by the manaburn-bug (enemies with any kind of manaburn did *256 damage!), lightning nova was useless, and lightning storm was last used in 1.07 as the synergie-system broke it so far it didn't do squat anymore.
- amazon: dodge-skill always got in the way breaking attack-animation, significatnly weakening Valkyrie too.The poison-javelins did like nothing (poison dmg/duration bug, dmg comparsion with lightning, low dmg either way, immunity groups not being in favour), and don't even start on the melee skills
- necromancer: golems were demanding all your skillpoints, this (and the overpower of skeletons) killing revives too. Skeleton Mages also had their fair share of problems. And the multiplayer couldn't actualy carry a skeleton horde. Poison skills were only available in one set, and Bone Spirit was a total crap. At least Bone Prison was entirely useless, but Bone Wall got so much better synergy and lower manacost that it made the melee necro possible.
- lastly barbarian. Throwin barba never had a chance (didn't do damage in MP, didn't have access reliably on equipment in SP). Synergies ment practicaly nothing, as only the top tier skill remaind to be used still. Trying to make Leap Attack a skill got drown in laughter, not to mention it constantly bugged to being disabled. On the monster-side let's mention the result of this skill the Immortal Leap Frogs.

So game-balance in Diablo 2? Sorry, that's not going to happen.
Not that a new edition would look like even available. I've read they lost the source-code for most files of the game, and "it would be too much effert to recreate thouse from nothing-level".

"New edition" was just another way of referring to this upcoming release, sorry for the confusion ==> https://diablo2.blizzard.com/en-us/#

You might want to keep an eye on fan projects, like PD2 (this is their Discord). You can find the official website link at "pd2-links", if you want to try it out (there's a launcher for download, for owners of LoD).
I can't give you an opinon about it, as I haven't played it, but these fans are at least trying to polish Diablo II + LoD, so they deserve spotlight, for that alone.

Well, here is the 2019 article I refered to, that Blizzard anounced they are simply incapable of remaking it:
https://hu.ign.com/diablo-ii-1/53930/news/meglepo-okbol-nem-keszulhet-el-a-diablo-ii-felujitott-valtozata
Put it in google-translate, it is in hungarian.

I dunno when this "resurrected" was announced, but it is a scam either way.

Hrm, I'm not sure why you brought that up? Thanks, I guess.
I translated the page.

It's comedy gold how they lost the source code for Diablo II, they're again leaving to the fans to fix their mistakes!

If it wasn't for a brilliant fan, we would never have the source code (publicly) available, for the first Diablo. What a champ.

Edit: Typos.