With the new ranking structure there is no longer a reason to play ranked for casual players. With the old system we could actually climb the ladder slowly over many many months but now we just get reset. We just will never be able to reach legend because we don’t play enough total matches.
Before we could climb in 5rank increments before reset but now we are always reset to 0. The bonus stars just don’t carry us far enough. Blizz should remove the bonus stars and reimplement the 5rank catch points. There are just too many games required otherwise.
Packs are not good insentive to play ranked either, it should be gold.
8 Likes
reason to play ladder:
Before: get to rank 5. if you were legend, you don’t even have to worry about it.
Now: get as high as possible because there are good rewards for each checkpoint
If you can’t get legend now, you probably couldn’t get legend before: now there are 15 stars from the last checkpoint, vs. 25 (?) with the previous system.
(i am not legend too, but this system gives me more rewards than the previous rank 15, so i am happy with it.)
1 Like
I really like the extra bonus stars now where you can get credit for 4 wins rather then one. It makes it so your still making progress even if your loosing more then winning which feels much better then being stuck.
Eh… it might take longer, but you probably can make it. It’s just a matter of making sure you play enough games to reach the next-over rank floor from where you ended. So, if you reached Gold 5 last season, try to finish this season at Platinum 10. That way your star bonus will be higher, and you’ll get further up the ladder before your bonus ends.
You might argue that getting to the next rank floor is too much work for a casual player. And that might be correct. But if a 15-star climb is too much for you know, you wouldn’t have made it to Legend under the old system (which required a 25-star climb).
When people say if you can’t reach Legend now, you probably couldn’t before; that is absolutely false. It’s the exact opposite of what’s real and how it works. I played only enough to complete my quests. And it took me two years to climb from rank 20 to 5 because of that. Not because of any lack of skill. I also only play decks I design and build myself. I refuse to play anything built by others. But because I was able to do it in increments, I was able to climb. I was ranked 2 when the new system was introduced. There is absolutely no way for me to reach Legend now. Playing enough to complete my quest will only net me around upper Platinum, lower diamond. the new ranking system really sucks and its confusing as hell. 5 ranks of 10 is far more complicated than says 1-50.
And the rewards now or in the past for reaching X rankings are 100% trivial, it’s just packs which is just dust, completely useless. It should be gold. Gold is at least useful
3 Likes
What was your star multiplier this season?
If you play only to complete your daily quests and you don’t care about the reward, then why is it so important to reach legend?
I strongly disagree. The new system is much more rewarding than the old one. And I´m speaking from a position of a casual player who´s just returned after 2 years break. The old rewarding system mostly gave player some useless golden cards mainly rare. From the new system I got card packs and one of those pack contained legenedary card, so for me it was like “Yeah, keep it coming”. We should give credit where credit´s due. This was great job from Blizz
1 Like
I personally love the new system compared to the old, with the only exception being the secret matchmaking where you don’t get to see the rank of your opponents. The new ranking/reward system itself is awesome but the matchmaking is really, really wonky it seems.
1 Like
You kidding me right? lol Its easier now more than ever to climb the ladder…
Legend is where people actually play for fun. There isn’t all this crazy BS aggro because it’s not so competitive there. Legend is what casual should be, but for some reason a holes still run aggro decks in casual. It’s intolerable to be unable to play for fun.
2 Likes
I guess that´s for daily 100 gold.
New ranked system like only players who climbed higher then in old ranked system. No other players support this non transparent mess which pair gold with legend players and calling it balance.
4 Likes
disagree about gold…getting 3 packs at the end of the month is something i look forward too…
If you spend your gold correctly packs are meaningless. You should have all commons and rares day 1 of an expansion easily. Most epics and a few legendary with dust enough to craft 4-5 legendarys. That’s F2P
Just save all gold until launch day of the next expac.
1 Like
how do I say this in short? BULL****
It’s garbage, class balance is atrocious, you either dominate completely or die hopelessly most of the time. Some of the most oppressive, cancerous cards have been added, there are at least four builds that are either completely busted, are coin tosses that favor the player, or are so miserable to play against. The community attempts to complain and the fanboys scream bloody murder and report every post that doesn’t suck up to blizzard and blizzard lets them troll, but you better be nice. This entire meta has been a disaster, the current balance team and supervisors dictating it need fired. It’s bad.
4 Likes
Yep, its true. Anyway this guy only claims to the ranking system here 
As for the ranking system. I personally dont care of the sytem how you climb up. It suited me in any of the periods (and it changed several times).
1 Like
You should have around 200 packs at the beginning of the expansion