Hello folks,
Yesterday on the 25th of may I've grinded my way from rank 50 to legend in 15:12 hours on a brand new account without spending a single penny. Here's my story:
Gif of the legend hitmark: https://gph.is/g/aXpjpxO
Tutorial - Rank 50
Everything that could go wrong, went wrong. I thought I'll just setup the stream, do the tutorial and go straight to ranked.
So I set the timer on at 16 hours and started. The stream recorded at 128p. My computer dropped frame-rates dramaticaly and I've had disconnects during the tutorial phase which made me do it again. Basically the first hour of the timer was me switch to another computer with better specs and getting the stream right. Once that was over with, I thought that the ranking could begin. Apperantly the starter quests don't begin unless you've cleared 5 games in solo adventure. I found this out after I played 2 games on rank 50 and lost both matches. Another 30 minutes gone. This was the only real set-back I had. From this way on things went pretty smoothly.
Rank 49 - 5
I couldn't have wished for a better result. During these ranks I've only had 4 loses. The timer went from 1:30 to 8:30 during these ranks. Still 7:30 hours left for the last phase.
Rank 5 - Legend
This is were the real grind started. My win-streak was over and the loses started to happen left and right. For the first 3 hours I was busy between rank 5 and rank 4 - 3 stars. I thought to myself "with this speed I'll never make it". Luckely after playing pretty 50-50 it went at a slow and steady phase, and it took another 3 hours and 45 minutes to get from rank 4 - 3 stars to legend.
Final word
I'm overwelmed with joy after reaching this. But also confused. Eventho the poor preperation I've had it still took 3:14 hours less than the previous "record". So can this record be broken? Absolutely! With the right preperation and slightly quicker turns is very posible.
I did this challenge for several reasons. Besides my love for competitive gameplay it was also something I did for the community. The amount of negetivity I see on the forums is sad. Seeing all the complaints about how the game is "Pay2Win" - "Only about luck" - "Highrolling" - ect. I get it, people want quick validation and quick rewards. Whenever there's something new, like a expansion, there are so many topics of how people hate the changes and what not. I know that one person can't make a change to that, but I hope that doing this challenge will shed some light on the people that see this game as a joke. A the end of this all I still had 21 packs unopened. Which could be enough to make another high-rank, perhaps legend worthy deck. All I can say is: Practice makes perfect. Learn from your mistakes and enjoy the game.
Special thanks to the friends that came over to keep me company (some traveled as long as 2:30 hours for this). And to Maurice040684 and Kingofjaga on twitch that kept me company pretty much the entire grind.
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"Hunter is in the process of fully transitioning into aggressive Bomb Mech Hunter builds. Oblivitron Hunter, which is a slower deck that primarily abuses the interaction between Mechanical Whelp and Nine Lives, is a very underwhelming strategy that we just can’t get behind and fully expect to fade away." Source: https://www.vicioussyndicate.com/vs-data-reaper-report-127/
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Played a couple of games with each class and my biggest surprise was Mech Deathrattle Hunter (that list from Vicious Syndicate), the deck doesn't feel clunky at all and Zul'jin is pretty powerful to close games in this meta with no Death Knights
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80 packs, 4 normal legendaries and one golden Chef Nomi, I liked it
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https://twitter.com/zxwwwwwww/status/1106258059402186752
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they said mage, hunter, paladin and druid are going to be the good guys who will fight the League of EVIL and defend Dalaran
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One thing that disappointed me is that Rastakhan himself never showed up, I thought he was supposed to be the main character of the expansion (his name is on the tittle), I was hoping to battle him in a final match, like we did with Hagatha in Witchwood, but he only appears as a hero skin ... sad :(
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I got Hir'eek, the Bat as my free Loa...
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same here
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I've played with some new cards at a fireside, and these are the ones that surprised me:
Dragon Roar
Stampeding Roar
Blast Wave
Time Out!
Sand Drudge
Akali, the Rhino
At that specific fireside environment, some cards were not so amazing as I thought they would be, such as Jan'alai, the Dragonhawk and the pirate rogue theme in general. Let's wait until the expansion releases and see how they will perform.
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I try to keep at least one reasonable deck for each class but, of course, from time to time I have my favorite class and deck, which I enjoy play the most at that moment.