I’m sure I’m not the only one that has noticed after you start ranking up, the competition improves tenfold. I’ll get to silver three and here come the gold, platinum, diamond and legend ranked players playing meta hero decks. It wouldn’t work that way if you could see the rank of the competition. lol ps. I don’t play metas. My decks are all me.
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To sort it out it is enough to find and read FAQ about new ranking system. While you have bonus stars you are matched by your MMR instead of rank.
PS: Google for a mod that can show you the rank of your opponent, it is not hard. But don’t refer to me.
Making your own decks is fine but don’t be ignorant of what other people are playing.
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have anyone kept count of how times this claim has been made since the ranked rework?
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int counter = 0;
for ( int i=0; i<= 9999; i++) {
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If they have reduced player base they can still match players quickly enough by having a wider match ranking window.
Hiding it just makes people complain about not being able to see enemy rank instead of complaining about facing harder opponents.
This is because most people who play the game who are at least silver already have a top tier deck, you have to be pretty casual to not be able to scrap together like 2,000 dust after a few months of playing. Also in that Blizzard gave players a deck in standard not so long ago for free that was more complete than my standard decks. So from between then and now the only people who shouldn’t have a complete deck are very casual or very new players.
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I’ve been told by a Blizz rep that this is a bug and it should be reported as a bug.
been playing before and after the change
never noticed a difference in queue times
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I can spot a meta deck in a second. After you play 2 or more players with the same deck it’s kinda obvious. I tried a couple of meta decks in the beginning. I can make better decks. The Paladin and Rogue have new metas I see. If I take my top deck against them I win over 70 percent of the time. I don’t enjoy playing my Murlocs though. My totem deck is not quite as good but it’s still over 50 percent. I like my mage and Hunter decks most cause I’m lazy. lol. The other decks are a lot of work and my priest deck I can always count on a long game. So I’m aware of metas. I just don’t use them.
Every deck is meta deck n ow. You cant afford to play anything fun, casual, or creative for most part or you get crushed by the finely tuned smorc decks.
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Not true, my Kronx Shuffle Rogue deck actually is doing really well.
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Well the only thing not meta about that is when you play a class that has one or two really powerful deck in tier one is that they don’t generally look to try create other decks even though they possibly exist.
I’m currently stuck at Diamond 5, regularly having matches vs legend ranked players, I say matches, but it’s really just a tedious, fun leeching exercise in futility.
Last night I yawned so hard I nearly dislocated my jaw.
How could you even know their rank? Did you survey them all afterward? Also dumpster legend players probably have the exact same MMR as many diamond players; if you’re getting matched it’s because the game found a fair match.
So I hit diamond 3 pretty well with 70% winratio then started to lose a lot, I find this pretty typical. Then I went to casual, I’m kind of amazed at how many off meta decks I played against that just stomped my deck, which should be like the 10th or so best deck in wild. I also saw too many people with at least like 10 legendaries in like some sort of off meta warrior deck (just as an example), countless paladin decks which just seemed to be formed out of older sets, but still far more powerful then my deck.
Point I want to make is that casual is possibly harder because it’s not as meta defined so reno priest actually helps to beat out decks that would be powerful otherwise. If you have a deck that is such formed in a way to counter the meta and you bring it into casual but it’s not an absolute power house in it’s own rights you will get stomped. Anyways my 2 cents.
If you don’t have any star multipliers left, this should never happen. When you are out of star multipliers, you are only matched up against players based on rank, not MMR.
Actually you still can. You can still make a deck that is good vs.certain deck or archetype. Sure, that deck would most likely struggle really hard vs.other deck (thus unable to be meta deck) but you can still win fair ammount of matches (based on your pocket meta).
Yes. But sometimes it doesn’t work as expected. Right now I have no bonus stars at Diamond-7 and got Legend-6k as an opponent.
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I’d figure that to be a bug. I figure the more they get reported in the bug forum to more chance they’ll have to finally address it. I still don’t understand why Legend rank players have the ability to see opponent ranks while non-Legends do not. I don’t see the logic behind that.
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