Hearthpwn

Already reached it, Darkwonyx was my gatekeeper but he let me pass ;)

It is very easy and you should make a good basic deck to reach rank 20.. you don't loose stars if you loose a game before rank 20. You will gain a new card back if you achieve rank 20 so you should do this before the end of the month..

You definitely don't need legendaries to reach rank 20, below rank 20 there are players that are new to the game like you so you can rank up easily you will not find people with many expert cards.

Ps. try not to spent your gold in packs and start playing arenas, after some arenas you will understand the game better and you will end up spending less gold than buying packs if you have a good average of wins. Arena needs practice and a good understanding of the game so read a few guides first and watch some arena streamers!

I'm at Rank 3, was Rank 5 two days ago and only played a bit. I feel I can probably make it, but I'll have no life if it gets close and I'm not there yet.

Rank 20 took a friend of mine about an hour and a half.

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Just out of curiousity, How long (or difficult) would it take to get rank 20?  I typically just play to get the daily quest reward and save up for packs every other day, so I really don't have any legendary cards yet.  I noticed a post that if you get rank 20 you get a participation backing for your deck which kind of makes me want to try out ranked games now.

Just started my collection on NA server playing as zoolock, got to rank 20 in like 10 games (obviously winstreak).

Not this season, no. Maybe some other season. I don't think I stand a chance with my deck consisting mainly with basic cards and some okay-ish random rares from packs I've opened. Don't have the money to craft cards or buy packs at the time and I do not own a single legendary and I have maybe 1 - 2 epics, but they don't fit my play style. Rank 20 now and happy there.

Rank one right now with a zoo-lock variant that runs questing adventurer.
Failed the "final boss" one time already. Now stuck at 2 stars had exactly 50% winrate today, winning/losing every second game. Hoping for legend tomorrow.

The pressure is real, 4 days left of season!

Switched to Paladin, but still stuck at Rank 13ish.. No legend this season for me. 

Consistently end each season around Rank 5 ever since they made the switch.  Very frustrating, as it is all just a matter of combating the meta for that range of ranks, which I can never seem to guess correctly : /

Oddly enough, back when it was more SCII type ranks, I had hit GM.

Not close at all. I basically play enough to get my gold quests completed which has me at around 15 now. I only play ranked because it seems less janky than casual.  I also like to play many different decks which is probably not conducive to climbing the ladder.

Stuck at rank 3, with hardly any time left this week. Not gonna happen I guess!

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Usually the last week is the easiest to achieve legend rank, because whatever kind of competition there was has already hit legend, so you are less likely to face good players until you reach rank 1 or something

That does seem very sensible, but sadly the weekend is only 1 day this time. Sadly for the people that don't have much time during the week, that is

Tell the people I'm playing against they were supposed to get legend already please. It doesn't feel easy XD

I'm stuck at 0-2 star rank 3. Been up and down and up and down.

Do we have any consensus on the forums about what time of day is the best for ranking up (easiest)? I was doing poorly all day but now it seems everyone is drunk, or too tired or something and its gotten easier.

I was getting a lot of luck and got up to rank 4 with 5 stars, then got destroyed and lost all the way down to rank 6 and 3 stars.  I am now up to rank 5 and 1 star.  I don't see it happening, LOL.  I do have Friday night off (I work night shift) so I can get a good push in this coming Friday, then Wildstar early access comes out I think midnight Saturday/Sunday morning, so I won't be playing much Hearthstone this weekend.

Was at rank 2 with Zoo, lost a couple now back to rank 3. But kind of getting tired of Zoo, should I stick it out?

Was at rank 5 yesterday, then played for several hours with shaman and made it to legend^^

I'm at rank 5 (using token druid) but I'm not going to have much chance to play before season end. Unless I hit a huge hot streak on Saturday I don't think I'll make it to legend.