However, with DiabloI, if you were at, say, level 10, and you fought monsters in the caves, your experience rose dramatically. With DiabloII, this will not be the case. You still will not gain experience by fighting monsters below your Clvl experience, but you ALSO will not gain experience by fighting monsters above your Clvl experience either. In other words, to gain experience the fastest, you will need to fight at a certain difficulty level throughout the game. No definite word yet.
Rankings are one of the toughest systems to figure out how to do well in multiplayer gaming.
There could be ladders as there are characters, and there could be ladders for players versus players as well as players versus monsters. There are really just too many things to consider in terms of guessing, and that's about all we can at this point. You DO drop all your gold however. Word is that half stays in a pile on the ground, and half vanishes completely. Yes, but they can only be case from scrolls in DiabloII, and you cannot target where you wish the portal to land.