Originally posted by Judge_Dee
on diablo 1.10 comes out we'll all be newbies again cause we're all going to start a ladder char. No more iths or occy rings. Never again shall those come to ladder chars. You know why? Cause bliz said every few months they will move our ladders chars back into our regular hacked closed chars. That way iths and occy ring wont become a problem cause they'll get deleted.
Blizzard publicly announced that iths will still be around.
www.diabloII.net
Information from diabloII.net regarding Iths:
With Ith items be deleted in v1.10?
Ith Items are made with a hack, and have been very heavily duped. They are described in some detail on our warnings page. Blizzard would have to modify how the game checks Runewords to make it able to detect Ith items, (they aren't checked for dupes like rares and uniques) and as far as we know Blizzard isn't going to do the work necessary to implement Ith detection. If they could just flick a button and delete all of them, I'm sure they would, but it's more difficult than that, unfortunately.
Duped Items:
Will dupes and hacks be deleted in v1.10?
As far as we know, Blizzard is doing all they can to delete dupes and hacked items now, and don't have any new checks to add in v1.10. So yes they'll be deleting dupes, but not any more than they are now.
If you dont beleve this then dont beleve anything because Blizzard supports diabloII.net and this is about as offical as its going to get until (and if) blizzard releases information.