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I got told by Blizzard (must be legit) that I was in the top 0.5% of ranked players for Hearthstone.

But apparently most of the others are also on this forum. Go figure! :-D

I started playing March 30th of last year and hit Legend in June with a Midrange Hunter.  

Since then, I have only hit Legend one more time, which was accidental; I only intended to get to rank 5 (which I've gotten every single other month since then) in August, but Aggro Druid was so ridiculously powerful back then, before the Innervate Nerf, and the games were over so quickly, that I decided to play a little bit more in order to hit Legend.  I recall that getting Legend in August took me about a quarter of the games and one-eighth the time it had in June.  

I would have hit Legend more times in the months since, but I'm primarily an Arena player (leaderboards three months in a row in September, October, and November, highest being 13th in the Americas), and it's impossible to play enough ranked to hit Legend AND play 40+ Arenas in month while having a job and other interests.  

In fact, that kind of bothers me, and one reason I look forward to Blizzard revamping the ranking system for constructed.  

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I never have and never will. Why? As several people pointed out, it’s mkre about grind than raw skill.  Why turn a fun game into a boring job? The card back is not worth the days and days of grinding. Plus, the rewards aren’t even that incentivizing.  A golden epic is nice at rank 5, but I’m content at rank 10 as I can still play without getting tilted.  Lastly, who wants to see the same damn decks over and over because everyone is afraid to try new things? Just have fun!

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I got there 3-4 times standard, and once wild. The thing with legend is you don't even have to be good, it just requires grinding. When you've done it once it also becomes way easier to do it a second time.

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I got there 3-4 times standard, and once wild. The thing with legend is you don't even have to be good, it just requires grinding. When you've done it once it also becomes way easier to do it a second time.

 That's why 98 percentage of players never make it there, and out of 75 million players, that is not so low a number. So don't lower the achievement. Just because some fools say all you have to do is grind.

Never hit legend and will never try...literally no point for a lame card back

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I got there 3-4 times standard, and once wild. The thing with legend is you don't even have to be good, it just requires grinding. When you've done it once it also becomes way easier to do it a second time.

 That's why 98 percentage of players never make it there, and out of 75 million players, that is not so low a number. So don't lower the achievement. Just because some fools say all you have to do is grind.

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I got there 3-4 times standard, and once wild. The thing with legend is you don't even have to be good, it just requires grinding. When you've done it once it also becomes way easier to do it a second time.

 That's why 98 percentage of players never make it there, and out of 75 million players, that is not so low a number. So don't lower the achievement. Just because some fools say all you have to do is grind.

 Please refer to my previous post.

Just face it. Getting legend isn't hard at all, depending on what deck you play. If you are looking for something to validate your e-penis, I suggest trying to finish a season at top 100 legend, competing against people who optimize their gameplay and decks to their fullest. I know I wouldn't be able to do that even if I tried to.

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I got there 3-4 times standard, and once wild. The thing with legend is you don't even have to be good, it just requires grinding. When you've done it once it also becomes way easier to do it a second time.

 That's why 98 percentage of players never make it there, and out of 75 million players, that is not so low a number. So don't lower the achievement. Just because some fools say all you have to do is grind.

 Please refer to my previous post.

Just face it. Getting legend isn't hard at all, depending on what deck you play. If you are looking for something to validate your e-penis, I suggest trying to finish a season at top 100 legend, competing against people who optimize their gameplay and decks to their fullest. I know I wouldn't be able to do that even if I tried to.

 Your math, is also all guest work, you heard somewhere that it counts , accounts that was activated and not used anymore. but you fail to grasp they gave up, with most not making it. So making it, is still achievement.  Alot more people still playing never make it then the ones that do. With player base worldwide hit 75 million last year.  Not as easy as some of you believe. 

Another forum person poster, got it correctly, you can give a teir 1 deck to a skilled player and they make legend quite easily or at least in time, but give a player that has little to no skill and experience and they'll be stuck in the ranks.

So accept that you are skilled and don't put down others by making feel smaller, because they have not achieve legend, even with time.

First time was in October of  2017 on the 17th, with my homebrew big druid deck, just before it became really popular. I don't play very often, an average of 2 games a day. so for me this was quite the accomplishment. I did a lot of streaking, including no loses at rank 1. One thing that really helped for anyone considering it is playing every single meta deck on the way, it really informed what I put in my druid deck, as well as me being able to anticipate the other players. (edit obviously I played a few more than 2 a day that October, I was prepping for a tournament on the 18th. My climb from rank 5 to 1 was about 110 games. )

I've hit Legend twice. It's only really worth doing once, unless of course you're going for those championship points.