So when are you good? Personally I'd say if you can make serious attempts at the top 200, even if you can't break it in the end. There's probably other symbols as well, such as winning tournaments or high averages in arena. But as far as ranked, that's where I see the bar.
So, for you, "good" doesn't start until you're in the top sliver of a fraction of a percentage of all players on your server?
That seems better than just "good" to me. You need more adjectives in your life.
I feel that 'good' isn't based on a percentage. It's based on capability and qualities. You can have 90% of a population be 'good' at something. Every person who went to the world championship is far more than just 'good', which puts it at 100%. I believe 'good' means you know and are capable of wielding all of the basic and most of the advanced features of the game. If 100% is 'god level, no longer need to learn anything new' at the game, 'good' to me, would be 80%. Far FAR above average.
I believe that the vast majority of people who play a game are playing poorly at a fundamental level and are only winning games and feeling successful because the ranking system quickly ships everyone who CAN play 'good' far FAR away from them. It's why a good number of the playerbase had to literally run away from Ranked during the first few days when EVERYONE got dumped into rank 16 and was forced to play up to Legend.
We insult ourselves by declaring 'good' at such a low level, and belittle ourselves in demanding that people MUST be at a 'good' level to be able to play the game. A group of friends playing football in the park are technically horrible at the game, but there's no reason in the world why they would NEED to be 'good' at football to play in the park. It DOES mean that if you put them against people who have trained up enough to be 'good' at the game that they would be torn to pieces.
What I'm doing is respecting those who HAVE put in the effort to learn this game. It MEANS something to get to rank 5. It MEANS something to be able to reach legend multiple months in a row, and it's not JUST "oh you have the time to play". It also MEANS that you have far more to learn as well in order to master this game. And you'll FEEL that difference if your 'just got into Legend' self start actually trying for rank 200.
Whether you want to call it 'good' or 'great' or 'awesome' is semantics. I jumped on the 'just wanted to see what people thought of things' as an invitation to put my 2 cents in.
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Dunno why you’d ever search with owned 3+
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500 WINS ARE GOLDEN FRAME AND ANIMATED HERO POWER, THEY ARENT ALTERNATE HEROES YOU CLOWN.
You’re a clown kid, every single alternate portrait thus far had new hero tray, entrance and hero power animation.
These are the most prestigious skins and they’re the same as basic portraits, I have all the right to complain about something that was poorly done. They put minimal amount of effort for something that has been requested for years, myself included so I have all the rights to be mad and complain.
You don’t even have a single golden hero, who are you to tell me what I should and shouldn’t complain for ? This update doesn’t concern you, you have no right to post here.
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No new voice lines, no new hero entrance, no hero trays.
Absolute JUNK
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It’s not that they’re lucky. It’s that you’re bad.
Just learn to mulligan and draft properly and you won’t have problems.
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Your OP suggests you’re just assuming the amount of packs you’ve opened.
people tend to overestimate that number.
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I think the card back sucks compared to last's year
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the win counter only includes wins from ranked and arena so no casual & brawl.
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the difference is 5000 wins is unrealistic, even for the hardcore players.
2000 is tough but doable for some people.
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What do you mean ? Everyone has golden heroes this is 2019. We needed real achievements for veterans. The others still have golden heroes to work towards.
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Although I'm VERY happy about this, I am also a bit disappointed since I already have all 9 classes above 1000 wins so it doesn't give me anything to work towards.
I hope they someday add new rewards at 1500 and 2000 wins.
How many classes above 1000 wins do you guys have ? Thoughts on this update ?