I've been stuck at rank 6-7 for the past week, it really seems like the competition is crazy strong right now. Win streaking is basically impossible (win one lose one, etc) and everyone is going balls to the wall. I think this is due to the changes in ladder dumping all of the highly ranked, non legend, players into the same sub-5 spot at once. Since the rank 5 and golden epic is so close, like a tasty carrot, everyone is going crazy here!
Honestly I preferred grinding up from a lower rank, it felt more rewarding than just staying in a static ranking so close to 5.
I don't see a big problem there...you've got so much time left until the end of the season, that rank 5 is almost a guarantee. And I guess you should be used to static ranking from the seasons before (rank 5-1) ;)
I returned to the game last month for the first time since March 2015 and climbed to Rank 2 - 5 stars. Then for some reason in March I started at Rank 5 - 1 star (Should have been Rank 6 - 5 stars, I think). And I can't climb even to Rank 4 now, competition is HOT! I am literally having 50% win ratio, I tried everything that have in my hands now: Spiteful Priest, Big Spell Priest, Big Spell Mage, Spiteful Druid and Secret Tempo Mage and NOTHING is working haha. So I feel the same as you do.
I've been stuck at rank 7-8! Haha. I finished on a winning streak last night though (always tough to end on those lol), so I'll see if I can push up to rank 6 to join this bottleneck with you guys. So far though, I do still like the changes.
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Twitch name: Anatak15 NA Legend Season 48, 49, 52, 53, 54, 74
I didn't experience any bottlenecks climbing from rank 11 to rank 2. Make sure to keep an eye on the meta, it may have changed for you and you may need to tech your deck to beat it or switch decks. I had to make a couple small adjustments when the meta changed on me from control heavy to aggro heavy.
I'm thinking about making the switch to zoolock. I hate the way control/cubelock plays (I know they're two different decks technically, but I don't have fun with either of them lol). I had fun with murloc pally for a while, but it's kinda fallen to the wayside. I need a new fast deck to play, since I've been playing big spells mage which always takes 13+ minutes I think haha.
Just curious, are you playing zoolock with Prince Keleseth? Or is it a more... traditional style, I guess?
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Twitch name: Anatak15 NA Legend Season 48, 49, 52, 53, 54, 74
Honestly I preferred grinding up from a lower rank, it felt more rewarding than just staying in a static ranking so close to 5.
Just a suggestion if this is what you prefer, you could rotate, do one month wild and one month standard. that way you will lose more stars and you get to climb more. Just an idea if you have the option to play Wild that is.
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Playing 10 games max per day during weekdays and about 20 games per day during Saturday and Sunday, I just broke through rank 5 last night starting from rank 9 (1 star) at the start of the season. That's an 11-day journey to complete 4 full ranks. So yeah man, I am definitely familiar with this bottleneck. It started from rank 9 with me and I was in it all the way to rank 5 SMH.
Chilling a bit now to let the good players pass.
I'm passing the time in Wild for a while, rank 17 now starting from rank 25 :)
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I've been stuck at rank 6-7 for the past week, it really seems like the competition is crazy strong right now. Win streaking is basically impossible (win one lose one, etc) and everyone is going balls to the wall. I think this is due to the changes in ladder dumping all of the highly ranked, non legend, players into the same sub-5 spot at once. Since the rank 5 and golden epic is so close, like a tasty carrot, everyone is going crazy here!
Honestly I preferred grinding up from a lower rank, it felt more rewarding than just staying in a static ranking so close to 5.
I don't see a big problem there...you've got so much time left until the end of the season, that rank 5 is almost a guarantee. And I guess you should be used to static ranking from the seasons before (rank 5-1) ;)
This is an amazing change for the game!
Normally you would be rank 10 now. Now you are rank 7. At the end of the season you will be in Rank 5 or better. Maybe even legendary.
got to rank 5 just doing daily quest..i also played some shitty decks too..to complete some quests
I returned to the game last month for the first time since March 2015 and climbed to Rank 2 - 5 stars. Then for some reason in March I started at Rank 5 - 1 star (Should have been Rank 6 - 5 stars, I think). And I can't climb even to Rank 4 now, competition is HOT! I am literally having 50% win ratio, I tried everything that have in my hands now: Spiteful Priest, Big Spell Priest, Big Spell Mage, Spiteful Druid and Secret Tempo Mage and NOTHING is working haha. So I feel the same as you do.
I've been stuck at rank 7-8! Haha. I finished on a winning streak last night though (always tough to end on those lol), so I'll see if I can push up to rank 6 to join this bottleneck with you guys. So far though, I do still like the changes.
Twitch name: Anatak15
NA Legend Season 48, 49, 52, 53, 54, 74
I didn't experience any bottlenecks climbing from rank 11 to rank 2. Make sure to keep an eye on the meta, it may have changed for you and you may need to tech your deck to beat it or switch decks. I had to make a couple small adjustments when the meta changed on me from control heavy to aggro heavy.
Just keep playing guys, you ll get there. From my experience, ranks 5-legends seem much easier but maybe iam just lucky.
I'm thinking about making the switch to zoolock. I hate the way control/cubelock plays (I know they're two different decks technically, but I don't have fun with either of them lol). I had fun with murloc pally for a while, but it's kinda fallen to the wayside. I need a new fast deck to play, since I've been playing big spells mage which always takes 13+ minutes I think haha.
Just curious, are you playing zoolock with Prince Keleseth? Or is it a more... traditional style, I guess?
Twitch name: Anatak15
NA Legend Season 48, 49, 52, 53, 54, 74
" In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded."
Go play arena, free packs at 7 win every day is way way waaaay better then a single golden epic in a month
Just wait a few days and the competition usually fades away as the really good players reach higher levels.
Yeah, that's a good idea. I'll have to craft some wild cards though!
Not so keen in wild arena though D: haven't played past two runs since it came online, the unfocused drafting was killing it for me.
Playing 10 games max per day during weekdays and about 20 games per day during Saturday and Sunday, I just broke through rank 5 last night starting from rank 9 (1 star) at the start of the season. That's an 11-day journey to complete 4 full ranks. So yeah man, I am definitely familiar with this bottleneck. It started from rank 9 with me and I was in it all the way to rank 5 SMH.
Chilling a bit now to let the good players pass.
I'm passing the time in Wild for a while, rank 17 now starting from rank 25 :)