Ranked Ladder Returns! Players to Receive 3 Kobolds & Catacombs Packs Next Week
The ladder has returned! We can stop spamming the forums and go back to playing our Aggro Paladin variants.
Blizzard is providing compensation to all players in the form of 3 Kobolds & Catacombs packs to be distributed next week through the Battle.net gifts interface. Some accounts may also have received additional stars in ranked.
Quote from AratilWe have implemented a hotfix for the issue that was affecting Ranked Play in all Hearthstone regions. To properly assess the scope of the issue, we had to temporarily disable Ranked Play while we worked on the hotfix. As part of the restoration process, some accounts may have received additional stars.
We understand this kind of downtime is disappointing for our community, and we apologize for the inconvenience this has caused. As a token of our appreciation for your patience, we’d like to offer everyone three Kobolds and Catacombs card packs. These card packs will be distributed next week and can be redeemed via the Gifting function either on the Battle.net Desktop App or by logging into your Battle.net account on your mobile device.
Everything should be working properly now and you can once again resume climbing the ladder in Ranked Play. We’re sorry for the disruption to your play experience and greatly appreciate your patience while we sorted it out!
Mill Mage??? Could you post a Decklist please😁
Keep in mind we are getting these 3 packs+ the 3 packs from this week tavern brawl so we are actually getting 6 packs for free this week. :D
that brawl is at the end of march
you sir are indeed correct i didn't see that ty for the correction, still 3 free packs this month not related to the free packs they usually give on the xpansion release
That will almost be as much as Eternal players get for that week for winning one match each day, almost.
yeah. already collecting gold for next expansion and all the dust is wellcome indeed
Im already at 3k gold since i stopped buying packs after 1 month from KnC released, had to DE some wild cards to make 2 decks(as a person who likes to collect it hurt abit) all help is appreciated.
I mean free packs and practically free legend this season. Best season of my life!!
I didn’t notice any issues
3 free packs. Word up
Yeah, for a while I thought "cool, we'll get Classic packs, just before Hall of Fame rotation" and then I read the title.
Free stars and free packs?
Shouldn't this be Solaire with the Sunlight Maggot on his head then?
The start of this season i was at rank 11 with 1 star and was hoping to get up to rank 10 for the level lock. I woke up the next day at rank 10 with 1 star, feelsgoodman.jpg. Then getting free packs on top of that just butters my biscuit.
If i'm not mistaken, due to new rules, you still need to do 5 wins on ranked to unlock the reward chest. I'm afraid, without those 5 wins, even if you started on rank 10 you won't get anything at the end of season.
It would be nice if we could have ladder issues every start of month. Free stars and packs !
5 stars at low ranks is insane
very bad decision
I think what dejsav means is that having to earn 5 stars to progress through low ranks is not cool. But they did it because of the way you only fall down four ranks at the start of each season now.
EDIT
Maybe they could/should implement a second win streak bonus at lower ranks? So now 3 or more in a row earns 2 stars until rank 5. What if 25-21 earned 3 stars after 6+ wins in a row? Maybe even through rank 20-16
I can see why it seems like a harder grind but firstly, the idea to only need 5 wins for the reward chest offsets some of the downside. And secondly the star increase is meant to spread out the player base more in terms of skill level thus making the matches at lower ranks more fair and theoretically more fun. It's better to think of the new distribution less in comparison to the old and more as a new mechanic entirely