bleh. mine has been down since early this morning....

http://www.battle.net

Diablo II Realm Maintenance
Friday, January 17, 2003
The USWest Diablo II realm is back online, and new character creation has been enabled.

The Europe and Asia2 realms are still in progress.

The USEast realm was taken offline at approximately 1000 Friday January 17 UTC (5:00 A.M. EST). Our apologies for the lack of notice... due to the length of time involved, we wanted to start this process as soon as possible. Again, this process is expected to take up to 24 hours.

The Asia and Asia3 realms will be taken offline shortly after the Asia2 realm completes. Another notice will be posted with specific times.

no patch as u can see