In ranked you get matched with player at your rank obviously.
If you want to get matched with new players as new player you have to play casual and let the MMR and matchmaking do their things.
No idea what you expected. You start with ranked and dont want to get matched with other players at rank 20? Ranked isnt for giving you a good learning experience, it is supposed to be the competitive mode in hearthstone.
Casual isn't a good learning experience either. You win a couple of games in a row then you start matching up with mostly tier 1 decks again. The point is there isn't a good mode in hearthstone for new players outside of tavern brawl and even those sometimes require you to have a decent collection and they're only 4 days a week.
I made a F2P account recently just to shake things up and experience life without having a lot of cards and after the first couple days of quests made it to rank 20. I had a quest to win games and thought this won't be too hard, even at the start of the season, if you're playing on a brand new account with almost no cards, the game should recognize that and match you up with similarly unexperienced opponents, right? Nope. Completely wrong.
First three games at rank 20, on a BRAND NEW account that has almost no collection, were against Razakus priest, Aggro paladin, and the Rhokdelar hunter deck. Yes, the Rhokdelar deck isn't tier 1 or anything, but it might as well be for an account that has almost nothing! As far as I could tell these decks had all the cards but I did get understandably destroyed very quickly so I didn't get to see their entire decks.
This isn't a big deal for me because I have a main account with a lot of cards on it and I don't have to worry about the rank 20 experience, but I couldn't help but wonder, how the hell is the matchmaking system so broken where brand new players are getting queued into these kind of decks? Does hearthstone have no ELO system whatsoever? Or do they have one but it doesn't work? If I was actually a new player in this situation I probably would feel so frustrated I'd never want to play hearthstone again. How has this not been addressed or reworked yet after 4 years?
A new player who has very little collection or game knowledge would never be able to win a game again if these are the kind of opponents they are queueing into. I don't know about you guys, but if I'm picking up a game for the first time and don't understand it very well, I would want to be able to play against similar opponents so that I can learn. Getting your face smashed into a wall every time you try to play is the opposite of a good learning experience.
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I made a F2P account recently just to shake things up and experience life without having a lot of cards and after the first couple days of quests made it to rank 20. I had a quest to win games and thought this won't be too hard, even at the start of the season, if you're playing on a brand new account with almost no cards, the game should recognize that and match you up with similarly unexperienced opponents, right? Nope. Completely wrong.
First three games at rank 20, on a BRAND NEW account that has almost no collection, were against Razakus priest, Aggro paladin, and the Rhokdelar hunter deck. Yes, the Rhokdelar deck isn't tier 1 or anything, but it might as well be for an account that has almost nothing! As far as I could tell these decks had all the cards but I did get understandably destroyed very quickly so I didn't get to see their entire decks.
This isn't a big deal for me because I have a main account with a lot of cards on it and I don't have to worry about the rank 20 experience, but I couldn't help but wonder, how the hell is the matchmaking system so broken where brand new players are getting queued into these kind of decks? Does hearthstone have no ELO system whatsoever? Or do they have one but it doesn't work? If I was actually a new player in this situation I probably would feel so frustrated I'd never want to play hearthstone again. How has this not been addressed or reworked yet after 4 years?
A new player who has very little collection or game knowledge would never be able to win a game again if these are the kind of opponents they are queueing into. I don't know about you guys, but if I'm picking up a game for the first time and don't understand it very well, I would want to be able to play against similar opponents so that I can learn. Getting your face smashed into a wall every time you try to play is the opposite of a good learning experience.