Battlegrounds Rating Reset Early Next Week
Blizzard just announced that there'll be a Battlegrounds rating reset early next week.
📣 Heads up, a new Battlegrounds season is just around the corner!
— Hearthstone (@PlayHearthstone) December 12, 2020
We'll be resetting all players' Battlegrounds ratings to 0 early next week to level the playing field for a new content update 👀 pic.twitter.com/g1h0CQUOKN
Yeah!!! Cant wait to get my battleground rewards now that the new season is just around the corner!
oh I forgot it’s still in beta
Except this is a lie. They've said before your secret MMR used for matchmaking doesn't reset. So this is utterly pointless except to again strip ranking from people. It's not a level playing field, you're punished for having high secret MMR.
People are abusing the external/internal MMR system so they have to fix and reset it.
We all know the reset isn’t for the new content. The reset for all the afking going on in battlegrounds to farm exp.
I guarantee you they will patch out the afk exp farming.
If they add any sort of reward for playing this mode I might be interested. As of now it is just a boring game mode that I never understood the appeal of.
No, it is not for AFK farming, it is for MMR exploit where you purposely lose many times to reduce the internal MMR without changing the external MMR. So every match will be against lower MMR players and every win will give maximum MMR. Using this exploit people reached 20k+ MMR,
Sorry i didn't understand: if you loose many times how do you not change your external MMR?
My guess is, if you lose like 1000-2000 games to start, you will have pushed your MMR very low.
Then each win gives a LOT of rating, because you are supposedly unfavored by far to win that match.
Then, by the time your MMR approaches your rating, you're already at ~20k rating.
They are two different numbers, and should be more related, but Blizzard likes to hide MMR rating for some reason.
thank you for your explanation, make sense!
Does this mean I can tank my MMR for farming and then it will all reset?
Hopefully we get some battlegrounds tweaks in this new season. The game is way too fast right now and the meta is starting to get stale.
Especially when yo win 5 or so in a row then get hit for 25 damage.
Nothing creams fun like spending 3 turns to re-roll 30 gold and getting offered exactly nothing usefull to buy.
maybe it's time to change tactics or watch streams?
If you spend 3 turns re-rolling for 30 gold and find nothing useful that's on you, you should watch some videos or some tutorials to get better. You probably got tons of useful stuff in those rolls, but you're so tunnelvisioned on that single thing you want that you screwed yourself on that game. 99% of the cases where you spend that much gold and turns on re-rolling without buying anything it's the player who's faulty, not the game.
Even excellent players like Dog and Kripp regularly have multiple turns in a row where they don't get to buy anything. I'm mostly talking about the last couple of rounds when you already have a pretty solid board.