Using myself as an example, I hit legend and my initial rank was about 1200. I then tried a homebrew deck, went on a horrid losing streak, and am now around 5000. When I win games, I am barely increasing - although I think around 150-200 points per game, which is something.
I don't really care at this point with my legend rank so I'm not too down about it. But I do feel awkward if I cue into a rank 2 or 1 player.
This was pretty much myself as well. I experimented with new stuff a bit more I suppose so I dropped from 1200 to around to the 7K range. My experience is even worse. I only gain 20 to 50 points for a win but lose twice that from a loss. However, it's more than just losses but the amount of people hitting legend. I actually went to bed for 8 hours and loss in the range of 1000 points overnight.
The reality is hitting legend doesn't seem to mean anything anymore. It's about your legend rank NUMBER. When I hit legend for the first time, it was before even rank floors and it actually felt like a challenge. I had to play religiously and make sure I was in the right mindset before each session. That same month, I dropped from Rank 4 with 5 stars to Rank 11. I had to recover all that lost time and hit the goal on the 20th day. This month I started at Rank 6 with 3 stars and played casually with the exception of a couple days before the expansion to get legend on the 11th. The amount of effort by comparison was minimal.
i've hit legend yesterday at around 10k. everytime i win a game i gain about 800 ranks and everytime i loose, i drop about 1k. but i cant tell how this would go on in higher ranks because my biggest winstreak was only 4 in a row. right now i'm around 9k, +-1k depending on whether i've won or lost my last match
Using myself as an example, I hit legend and my initial rank was about 1200. I then tried a homebrew deck, went on a horrid losing streak, and am now around 5000. When I win games, I am barely increasing - although I think around 150-200 points per game, which is something.
I don't really care at this point with my legend rank so I'm not too down about it. But I do feel awkward if I cue into a rank 2 or 1 player.
This was pretty much myself as well. I experimented with new stuff a bit more I suppose so I dropped from 1200 to around to the 7K range. My experience is even worse. I only gain 20 to 50 points for a win but lose twice that from a loss. However, it's more than just losses but the amount of people hitting legend. I actually went to bed for 8 hours and loss in the range of 1000 points overnight.
The reality is hitting legend doesn't seem to mean anything anymore. It's about your legend rank NUMBER. When I hit legend for the first time, it was before even rank floors and it actually felt like a challenge. I had to play religiously and make sure I was in the right mindset before each session. That same month, I dropped from Rank 4 with 5 stars to Rank 11. I had to recover all that lost time and hit the goal on the 20th day. This month I started at Rank 6 with 3 stars and played casually with the exception of a couple days before the expansion to get legend on the 11th. The amount of effort by comparison was minimal.
i've hit legend yesterday at around 10k. everytime i win a game i gain about 800 ranks and everytime i loose, i drop about 1k. but i cant tell how this would go on in higher ranks because my biggest winstreak was only 4 in a row. right now i'm around 9k, +-1k depending on whether i've won or lost my last match
Could just be the times we play. I rarely get matched against someone close to my rank.
In the first month of Ungoro we had even more Legendarys on eu . ( I remember a thread: Is everyone Legend these days?) So i doubt the new matchmaker has a lot to do with this.
I hit legend on the 16th of april. I used Spiteful Druid with a 90%+ winrate (literally lost 2 matches from rank 3 to legend), but once i reached it, i started to mess around with tier 2 decks. Voilá, im at rank 14k legend. Its no so strange, some ppl maybe just got bored of pala, cubelock and spiteful decks, and started to play fun decks in legend.
In the first month of Ungoro we had even more Legendarys on eu . ( I remember a thread: Is everyone Legend these days?) So i doubt the new matchmaker has a lot to do with this.
There is no new matchmaker, what do you mean?
I am 100% sure that there will be an unprecedented amount of players at legend at the end of this month, and the number will only grow because of the reduced dropback. The only question is if there are enough people who are willing to grind from 5 on up, and this might keep it under control.
However, you should expect less and less from dumpster legend players, both in terms of skill and MMR (being matched vs lower and lower ranked players.)
It is really weird. I went legend on Saturday and suddenly the games were much easier than rank 3 to 1.
As much as I liked the change at first glance to reduce the grinding the more I am getting worried now that reaching legend doesn't feel too much like achieving something anymore :/
I think two things led to the high legend player count.
1. The new ladder changes with dropping only 4 levels from highest rank the previous season. This simply makes it easier to rank up from one month to the next.
2. People grinded hard to legend before the expansion so there was already 7k players there by the time WW came out. The rest have been using the cheesy even/odd pally, spiteful druid or cubelock.
Like others have said, I think a lot of the additional players are because people can actually make it now.
I started playing this game right when Grand Tournament launched. I'm a busy adult and though I love Hearthstone, I do NOT get much play time. Ever since the floors were introduced, if I'm lucky, I'll have time to make it to rank 5 during a month. Then I just stop and mess around with fun decks, because it's usually the very end of the month by then.
In March, I started at rank 9, instead of down at 18. I reached rank 5 within the first week of the month, and hit legend for the first time ever. Not having to go through the ridiculous grind made laddering a much more fun experience this time around.
Lots of "like others said" posts here, so I'll add on haha.
I made legend on March 31 for the first time. Then I climbed to legend in the first week of April (in less than half as many games). Then I tried to play lots of "fun" decks, rather than sticking with tier 1 cubelock/spiteful/odd even paladin. And I lost a bunch. Now I'm at rank 8000 and constantly matched with rank 4 people lol.
Just so you know, if you're matched against someone like me, it literally means nothing. I'm by no means a pro player. You can feel good beating me if you want, but chances are I'm still playing a tier 2/3 deck just for fun haha. And besides, a win's a win.
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Like others have said, I think a lot of the additional players are because people can actually make it now.
I started playing this game right when Grand Tournament launched. I'm a busy adult and though I love Hearthstone, I do NOT get much play time. Ever since the floors were introduced, if I'm lucky, I'll have time to make it to rank 5 during a month. Then I just stop and mess around with fun decks, because it's usually the very end of the month by then.
In March, I started at rank 9, instead of down at 18. I reached rank 5 within the first week of the month, and hit legend for the first time ever. Not having to go through the ridiculous grind made laddering a much more fun experience this time around.
pretty much my story. almost exactly tbh, just one month later now :P
Funny thing, I think that a lot of players MMR's at Rank 1-5 are now higher than about half the legend players. I have been going on a tear to the tune of 80% and faced no Legend players, now today I saw my first one at Rank ~2500 with me in Rank 2. Signs of the times.
Well in Europe there were always 10k+ Legend Players. In Wild however there are much less. About <2k I think
I've seen people with ~20k legend rank, so 14k isn't a big deal.
Same BullShit 5-Legend
https://imgur.com/a/rUTR42M
It doesn’t matter if it legend rank or rank 20 there is some people that shouldn’t play this game
I like how certain people in this thread still assume that ''Legend=skill''.
Fuck cubelock
In the first month of Ungoro we had even more Legendarys on eu . ( I remember a thread: Is everyone Legend these days?) So i doubt the new matchmaker has a lot to do with this.
I hit legend on the 16th of april. I used Spiteful Druid with a 90%+ winrate (literally lost 2 matches from rank 3 to legend), but once i reached it, i started to mess around with tier 2 decks. Voilá, im at rank 14k legend. Its no so strange, some ppl maybe just got bored of pala, cubelock and spiteful decks, and started to play fun decks in legend.
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Ahh yeah I meant the new ranking system ofc. That we can only drop 4 ranks.
It is really weird. I went legend on Saturday and suddenly the games were much easier than rank 3 to 1.
As much as I liked the change at first glance to reduce the grinding the more I am getting worried now that reaching legend doesn't feel too much like achieving something anymore :/
The new ladder changes. I've seen as high as 24k
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I think two things led to the high legend player count.
1. The new ladder changes with dropping only 4 levels from highest rank the previous season. This simply makes it easier to rank up from one month to the next.
2. People grinded hard to legend before the expansion so there was already 7k players there by the time WW came out. The rest have been using the cheesy even/odd pally, spiteful druid or cubelock.
Like others have said, I think a lot of the additional players are because people can actually make it now.
I started playing this game right when Grand Tournament launched. I'm a busy adult and though I love Hearthstone, I do NOT get much play time. Ever since the floors were introduced, if I'm lucky, I'll have time to make it to rank 5 during a month. Then I just stop and mess around with fun decks, because it's usually the very end of the month by then.
In March, I started at rank 9, instead of down at 18. I reached rank 5 within the first week of the month, and hit legend for the first time ever. Not having to go through the ridiculous grind made laddering a much more fun experience this time around.
Lots of "like others said" posts here, so I'll add on haha.
I made legend on March 31 for the first time. Then I climbed to legend in the first week of April (in less than half as many games). Then I tried to play lots of "fun" decks, rather than sticking with tier 1 cubelock/spiteful/odd even paladin. And I lost a bunch. Now I'm at rank 8000 and constantly matched with rank 4 people lol.
Just so you know, if you're matched against someone like me, it literally means nothing. I'm by no means a pro player. You can feel good beating me if you want, but chances are I'm still playing a tier 2/3 deck just for fun haha. And besides, a win's a win.
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Funny thing, I think that a lot of players MMR's at Rank 1-5 are now higher than about half the legend players. I have been going on a tear to the tune of 80% and faced no Legend players, now today I saw my first one at Rank ~2500 with me in Rank 2. Signs of the times.
This is the easiest legend I have got so far, this month.
Class diversification is quite large, I played casually until rank 3, the switched to a control / cube version, and got 70% win rate to legend.
Once legend, 11K or so, I lost 6-7 games, and won around 2. Ranking now 17839. A win brings me 200 ranks, a loss, up to even 1k.
Weird, but happy that I got legend once more :)