A bit off topic, as we are talking about D3, but few pages ago you guys were talking about D2 mods - can anyone suggest some mods for VANILLA D2?
And I'm running a v1.13, since my original disc wouldn't run on Vista and I registered it on battle.net so patching was automatic...
MedianXL (actually MedianXL: Ultimative now) runs on 1.13.
However, I want to stress that this is a rather extreme overhaul, especially of the classes and and their skills. There is official documentation for everything (except for certain flavors of high-end uniques and runewords, which are probably still documented unofficially somewhere). If you're looking for a slightly more vanilla experience, other mods might be advisable. It also offers many end-game challenges, some of which the difficulty may even fall into "unfair" (in the sense that certain classes/builds are not capable of completing them, even when offered choice among the full selection of gear available).
Zy-el's (required 1.09) skills trees are still mostly vanilla, although they have also been overhauled (in order to accommodate a new level cap of 10,000); however, I found the early game is extremely tedious. At 16, as an assassin, my only viable kill skill is psychic hammer, and only because I've overloaded myself with mana-on-kill Tir runes. I still have a few more levels until I get my first combo finisher (why open a combo builder without a combo finisher is anathema to me), but given how much damage melee puts out compared to that hammer, I expect I'll be using that hammer for a long while yet.
Therdit: I also strongly recommended getting the D2SE modmanager. It comes pre-packaged with many of D2s patches (and possibly also PlugY, which extends the stash, an extremely useful thing to have for mods which add lots of new items, like Zy-el and Median), and allows you to run mods without having to laboriously modify and backup the base D2 install manually. For example, Zy-el requires 1.09, but Median (I believe) requires 1.10 and can run on 1.10 through to 1.13 (there are a couple things that are only available if playing on 1.13). So instead of shuffling the patch files around in the main directory, you can set up D2SE to run a mod using a supplied core patch version. Mod, and D2 version selection, just becomes a matter of making a selection with the launcher. It also separates character saves by mod and version.