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Our fourth and final season of Standard for Kobolds and Catacombs! There are some changes to how the ladder works though, learn more about those here.

• What are you planning on playing this season?
• How is that grind going?
• What decks are you finding to be problematic and what solutions are you looking at?

Impossible to me to get Legend. Now Legend is REALLY just a dream.

Made Rank 5, two stars last month with Jade Druid (68%WR) from rank 18. Now that I'm starting at Rank 9, two stars, Legend seems alot more realistic. Gonna try the same deck and see how that goes.

• What are you planning on playing this season? Murloc Pally, Kingsbane Mill Rogue, and either OTK Dragon Priest or Control Priest.
• How is that grind going? Went well enough last season ending at rank 5 3 stars. Could have likely ground out to legend(My meta was mostly secret mage) if I played more.
• What decks are you finding to be problematic and what solutions are you looking at? Both versions of Warlock and OTK Priest. I never have enough tech or have it when I need it, and duskbreaker on T3/T4 wrecks my board. With Murlocadin there isn't much else I can do without kneecapping my decks power, so just have to face it and play my best. If the meta shows me more locks I'll go Control Priest more often since I never have that big and issue with them, SILENCE AHOY!

I think I'm going to play Demon hunter...

I have been playing about 30 games day, just can't get from 15 to 10. I win 5 or six games, then lose again. Using Mage, Paladin, and Warlock. I think I am cursed. 

Made rank 1 with 1-2 stars on EU. Started climbing to late and had good win rate to rank 2 with Lynessa OTK exodia paladin. Starting this season on rank 5 feels good def gonna try legend this month. Gonna try with secret mage. Hate that deck so just join if you cant beat :)

Could i poss see a decklist? I'm interested in trying with the same deck. 

Here you go: 

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It is a variation of Sintolol's Jade Druid that I've found does very well against alot of decks, save Secret Mage where I've teched in Eater of Secrets to help with it. Feel free to PM me if you want some advice on playing the deck but it mostly plays like standard Jade Druid. *Insert joke about summoning a larger & larger man*

Made rank 1 with murloc pally, then lose all way back to rank 4 4star lol ,  and now, new season, i'm starting 5 full star.  So the new system counts the max rank youve got, that was good to know.

Anyway, starting a month on rank 5, legend seens more realistic indeed. FeelsGoodMan

Got to Legend last season switching between Big Priest and Spell Hunter (guess high rolling is the real deal in this meta), then spent the rest of the season playing Dino Hunter in the dumpster - still managed to reach 1800~ at some point, but the archetype needs much more support to become viable.

Even though starting from rank 4 seems really relieving, I guess that average players like myself will get stuck in ranks 5~4 for a while in this new system. Maybe hit legend at the same point in the season as we always do (mid~ending of season). Hoping that I‘m wrong though.

Can I see your last month mage list, 20 wins away from golden hero, so going to start with mage.

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I think I'm going to play Demon hunter...

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I think I'm going to play Demon hunter...

 

What?

Oh okay. I don't play Diablo so you can see how I was confused.

Legend is not impossible! You can do it!

I finally reached it at Season 45 (after playing since Season 10 monkaS) and my biggest takeaways/tips for people feeling discouraged are:

• MASTER one deck, get competent in another. Learn one deck like the back of your hand. And I don't mean just reading a mulligan. Watch a streamer play it. Take notes. Watch the situations and how they respond to them. Devote all your Hearthstone time to not playing at all for about a week, and just study the heck out of one deck. Read articles on the deck. Understand how the deck wins and how it loses. And not just understanding the cards. Understand from a theoretical and mechanical standpoint.
• Have a lot of time and patience! Even amazing players that get legend every season don't get it quickly! Sure it may look like they do because they can get it in a week, but imagine how many games they have to play. It takes time, sometime hundreds of games playing at your absolute best with little to no mistakes.
• Rank 5 is only half the battle. A year before making it, I was getting 5 consistently but never 4. Six months before actually making it, I hovered around 3-5. Three months, I was finishing around 1-2. From Rank 5, you need to win 25 times more than you lose for those lovely card backs. For some that's 35-10, for some that's 125-100. This is why I strongly recommend tip #1 to make this number of games as low as possible.
• Don't get salty! Understand that you're gonna catch a bad beat sometimes. Also understand that if you look at the bigger picture, that one really bad roll had to happen eventually from a statistical standpoint. Spam that ranked play button at the end and get back in there! Some people recommend taking a break after lots of losses. I'm stubborn! I play a predetermined amount of games then I stop.
• Take your time!!! One bad play can cost you a star and 20 minutes of your play time to recover that star! Rope every turn if you have to. The worst thing that happens is your opponent impatiently ragequits (great, free star), or he adds you to talk trash and you just ignore it anyway!

I'm really contemplating if I want to play for legend this season. On one hand not doing it would be a missed opportunity with all the farmable r15 guys being thrown up to r5+ thanks to the buggy stars conversion. On the other hand, all the people achieving legend through being placed at r1, 5 stars by the same bug makes it somewhat of a meaningless achievement this season

WOOOHOOO finally made it first time to legend this season with a 33-8 W/R murloc pally!

Had an insane streak where i was queued against like 5 mages in a row who are relatively easy to beat with that deck, also some people made stupid as hell trades (or better no trades actually) at rank2 which gave me the games even though i was behind before.

So happy i finally got the courage to try the grind, which wasn't a grind in the end. Before i just went to rank 5 and started playing meme decks there - now its time for meme decks in the legend ranks :)

done without any rank buggings btw haHAA

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WOOOHOOO finally made it first time to legend this season with a 33-8 W/R murloc pally!

Had an insane streak where i was queued against like 5 mages in a row who are relatively easy to beat with that deck, also some people made stupid as hell trades (or better no trades actually) at rank2 which gave me the games even though i was behind before.

So happy i finally got the courage to try the grind, which wasn't a grind in the end. Before i just went to rank 5 and started playing meme decks there - now its time for meme decks in the legend ranks :)

done without any rank buggings btw haHAA

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Quote from lidl_wayne >>

WOOOHOOO finally made it first time to legend this season with a 33-8 W/R murloc pally!

Had an insane streak where i was queued against like 5 mages in a row who are relatively easy to beat with that deck, also some people made stupid as hell trades (or better no trades actually) at rank2 which gave me the games even though i was behind before.

So happy i finally got the courage to try the grind, which wasn't a grind in the end. Before i just went to rank 5 and started playing meme decks there - now its time for meme decks in the legend ranks :)

done without any rank buggings btw haHAA

 

 Damn you managed to get Legend with a Murloc Pally Deck? 

You really deserved to reach Legend. Pure Class Player.