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Hi all..
I will lose my star bonus if I don't play a month? I want to take a break from standard and try to play wild, but I don't want to lose my bonus stars!
If you don't play at all you should maintain your current star bonus into the next month.
Yes an No.
Star bonus is based on two things : MMR or Rank at the end of last season (whichever is highest).
As a result, let's say that two month ago you finished legend, at the start of last month you had 10 stars bonus.
Let's say you don't play at all, then your star bonus will be your MMR (because your rank will be bronze 10)
However let's say at the end of the season 2 months ago you played memedecks on legend and reached rank 90000 legend (made up number, that's just for the sake of my argument).
Then your MMR might be gold 10, therefore you'll end up with a 3 or 4 star bonus instead of a 10 star bonus. (after the month you didn't play).
Note that It can also work in the player's favour. If you're the kind of player who don't play much, you could finish a month diamond 6 but still get 10 stars because you have 90% winrate and a very high MMR for your rank.
No, you won't lose anything.
You'd have to stop playing for a long time for your star bonus to drop by 1.
This is of course false. At worst your bonus will go from 10 to 9 in a single month.
And only if you lose a lot of games and end up with a negative winrate also.
https://hearthstone.fandom.com/wiki/Ranked#Gaining_stars
"Why, you never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose nor a body to kick." -- Lady Saba Holland
Is it impossible? is there a statement / datamine? (legitimately curious)
I took a very extreme exemple, but I imagine if someone keep losing at legend (like 0% winrate), eventualy he would fall below the MMR treshhold for legend players.
But I haven't researched it so I admit I could be wrong.
Possible or not, it's true that usualy your MMR won't fall more than 1 star at a time.
The page I liked above lists the minimum star bonuses for each rank. At gold 10, the minimum is 4. I don't think it's mathematically possible to have a 10-star bonus if you only got to gold 10 the previous month. If you're winning enough for your MMR to give you 10 stars, you're probably in Legend.
Since MMR is a hidden value, there's no way of knowing the exact MMR-to-star conversion, but I suspect the 11th star for high Legend is the only time it kicks in.
"Why, you never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose nor a body to kick." -- Lady Saba Holland
That point's not true from experience. I had months I finished at diamond 10-6 (don't remember the exact rank) and still got 10 stars (even though I didn't reach legend on the previous month and was on 9 star the previous month).
As for gold 10, my exemple was the other way around. I wasn't saying you could get 10 stars at gold 10, I was saying you could get the same amount of stars as gold 10 while being legend two months ago if you didn't play on the previous month and if your MMR was really really bad at legend.
If you don't play for an extended period of time you will lose your stars. I spent two months without playing the game. I always finished around Diamond 5 and had 9 stars each month. After those two months my stars dropped all the way to 4. I managed to recover only 2 last month so you are punished pretty harshly if you stop playing.
Maybe, in line with what Nawasty said above, your MMR was quite low and you were getting 9-stars only thanks to your d5 finish, not MMR-wise. Once you stopped playing, it was now your MMR that determined your next star bonus.
I have an account where I haven't played in 4-5 months. I just checked and I still have 10x bonus, so it's not a fact that you lose your stars if you don't play for a long time