That group did Legend this last month with a paladin and they can’t stop bragging about it. They spread the delusion it becomes extremely easy at the last days but so extremely hard at the start (when by “random chance” it’s when they did it).
I went D3 on the first day with an almost non stop winning spree; it was equally hard at the last day after that; the only effect I noticed on “hardness on the first days” is that a few high skilled players still climb[at ~Gold] (but barely matter at D4+).
It absolutely is hardest at the very start. When people are literally racing to the top you have all the best players bunched up, and each step of the way they’re basically fighting top 1000 level opponents. It’s very challenging so long as you’re essentially tied for highest rank on server, which is a first day — really, first couple hours only — phenomenon.
Now, is it really that much different by the 4th of the month, compared to the last day? Possibly not. I wasn’t keeping up with the elites like that. Just slightly over 1000 people made Legend before I did, and I’ve been pretty open with the fact that my climb was pretty easy and a whole lot of my opponents before Diamond were extremely easy bot matchups. I’m not really the guy saying that making Legend early in the month is hard.
I’m just saying that it will get easier over the course of a month. How much easier? I don’t know exactly. Maybe 90% of the difficulty goes away after the first 24 hours and after that it’s pretty negligible. That’d seem to align with my experience, which was that the climb ain’t hard. We’re probably dealing with an asymptotic relationship here.
I know exactly how it works conceptually which explains why it is negligible:
You see a few god-like skilled players around ~Gold for example; those people have a truckload of star bonuses both by default and by their winning streak; they just steamroll through the ranks until at least Diamond ~1 (maybe they’ll stay there a little longer I suspect).
As a result: they are SCARCE in general: you do find them on and off but they are not effectively very noticeable at ANY sub-Legend rank (especially anything below D1-3).
The cherry on top and why the entire concept is very bad (it might be the most important factor): if good players know about it: they’ll exploit it and even it out.
Reaching Legend is impressive. Full Stop. No qualifying or conditionals. I made it to Silver10 this last month and Im content with that as I focused more on duels since there is a ticking clock left on the mode. But OP, grats. the rest of the nick-picking and back handed compliments and so on is all unnecessary. You should feel good about your accomplishment. The others should feel shame for not just saying a simple grats and not bringing up irrelevant stuff. curiosity about when the climb to that rank is fine and all so I dont knock on that tangent as it is related to your first post. But all the rest and the rank shaming and superiority complexes is just ridiculous and unnecessary.
Imposter? Where? I’m no imposter. Different name, different icon and definitely different attitude when it comes to Hearthstone. But to answer your question, I’m from gmail. Dunno if there were others.
Well clearly The original is Millhouse Manastorm and the imposter is a measly Hazlow Mudshuggle. Not even a cool gnome like Scabbs Cutterbutter, but just a mere knife-juggler. Doubt such a gnome could be so interesting as to merit being imprisoned in The Arcatraz. lol
While I know it is only empirical evidence, this seems self evident to me.
I spent the 1st couple of days of the month (I don’t play that much) getting to high gold. Then I spent the next 26 days or so getting to low gold (I never claimed much talent in anything other than perhaps deck-building). Then, on the last day, I win 10 games straight against obvious “bots” and make low platinum (my evident plateau) with ease.
With all things concerning my beliefs, “the proof of the pudding is in the eating”. Nobody but “bots” to play on last day.
Those are very low ranks in that context. Anything below Diamond 10 starts getting bots within days in a month. I mainly questioned there the theory that “Diamond is extremely easy at the second half”; I find it similarly easy(or hard) at the start and the second half of the month; what I do keep as a possibility is the “very end” of a day or less or so being exceptionally different.
whatever lets you sleep at night, Mini-Me.