One thing that always annoyed me with battleground thus loving it so much, is the rating system. I feel it demotivate me to just earn points towards being 5000 or 5100 rating. It’s not visual pleasing, it doesn’t feel rewarding and it doesn’t feel exciting. You feel lost how good to are and it’s boring to just know you are in top 2.5 of the world if you are above 7000 or so. I love how standard hearthstone has different ranks, and each rank has star for ranking and de ranking, that reach rank has pictures. It feels rewarding and much more fun, the visual and faster way to know how good you are just does it for me. I’d love 20 different ranks in battle for kind, which some being gateways for not dropping lower. Visual pleasing art for each rank and maybe even reward for getting every 4 ranks completed, like a chest? Could be skins, tokens for the new patch, etc, special card backs for battleground and so on. All those changes would revive the game for me and make me feel excited for wanted to progress up through the ranks instead of just being a boring dull number, like wow I’m 5230, or finally 7300, wouldn’t it be so nice knowing I’m gold rank 5, 2 stars, with knowing at end of season I’ll get 1 minor chest with rewards and knowing if I’m gold rank I might be top 50% best of players etc. Battlegrounds has neglected this for far to many years now and this change could make it all so much more viable and fresh for modern gameplay. Does anyone else feel me or? Please upvote and like this if you agree.
I didn’t hear it from a Dev but I believe the reason they avoid using the Legend rank in Battlegrounds, is a “marketing issue”. I.e. it’s tied so much to luring people into wanting to get Legend in constructed that they believe it would dilute the interest between the two formats.
Maybe your idea would work with a different name for the rank or all the ranks.
E.g. the top rank would be … … … Mythic or Titan or Immortal.
I understand the issue, but I feel the loss of excitement suffers are greater los than a motivator. I like your title names, I was also myself thinking of a system from WoW. Like since it’s called battleground, one could use the honour system, the 14 ranks from scout/private and ending on High warlord/Grand Marshal. Each rank would be divided into section, with process towards up ranking or de ranking. Most important would be a sort of reward chest, the higher rank the better end of season reward, and hitting the last rank a speciel card back for battleground. I know we got the reward system through battlepas, but I just find it boring, so maybe an more interesting upgrade to that and a chest etc. And like legendary has just numbers to indicate who’s the best, high warlord or grand marshal could have the same. And also all the beautiful artwork they could make for it, making it nice for the eye. And ingame you can see the other players rank and if they are about to de or up rank etc.