I have no idea. I think I entered legend at like 1200 or so once, but when I hit legend I never try to climb from there. It’s all experimenting from then on.
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Diamond 8 I believe. Usually I don’t have enough time to play long sessions to push further, so I mainly focus on completing quests first. If my MMR increases high enough to have a x10 star bonus, the perhaps I’ll try to push to D5.
Since I got back: Silver 1. With three flippin’ stars, and then I dropped. Still slightly peeved about that.
The last time I was around, the ranking system was different, though similar; you started at 25 and had to make it to 1. I don’t think I ever made it past 15, but I got to 17 a couple times and felt pleased with myself.
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I have entered Legend mid to high 1000’s rank in Wild.
Not for quite awhile though.
Once Secret mage was killed in Wild, I was pretty much done.
reaching 250 legend is my highest. finishing i think it was around 500ish for highest (i’m in EU)
i generally don’t try to push as i dont play enough to do so, just try to stay at a level that can guarantee my 11star bonus for next season (generally want 1200-) but for that 250ish i just got a lucky streak from 700ish to there.
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I used to routinely hit d5 or 10. I hit legend once. I couldn’t tell you what rank I came in at. It was long ago and not a feat I care to grind my way to again.
These days I try to stay at silver. It’s where the fun games are. I can play janky crap and still have a shot.
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I usually enter around 3-4 hundred and hang in that area or the 500’s for a few days before i just don’t have the time so i just try to stay in the top 1K if i have the time and willpower.
Shroud is on the Mark though. That Star bonus is the biggest incentive to legend each month if you are just playing for fun.
2017-2018 I’d make it a goal each month to finish top 100. VERY time consuming at the time, but I played religiously back then.
I don’t know exactly, but I think my highest was around 48? It was back when you used to get points for finishing high Legend, now there isn’t much of a reason to grind so hard.
Actually was with an anti-meta Reno Paladin deck I crafted on my own. Makes me miss the times when you could make an off meta deck and compete at the highest levels.
End of season or just in general? I’ve gotten 500 legend but the grind was not that fun and the meta becomes stale AF at high legend. Now I usually just hit legend and play meme decks in low legend like 2k.
Platinum 10, not much a player that only play for quests.
I play on Americas, best rank on standard was 3k middle of last month, which I finished at 6k or more. On wild I reached D5, and on classic, D9.
The highest rank I ever reached was Grand Marshal.
For the Alliance!
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Top 5 Legend in Wild and Top 100ish Legend in Standard.
Are you me? It’s even the same avatar.
The highest I’ve ever finished is rank 1985 legend 'round about.
I was a pretty mediocre player for a long time but when the pandemic hit and they announced the new ladder structure I decided to actively try to get better at this game. The way I thought to go about that was to ask here about playing a style of deck I’ve never understood how to play, tempo decks, and the explanations I got from that pushed me from a platinum player to a diamond 5 players. After that I heard Regis Killbin metion in a video how much paying for hsreplay helps so I tried that and that same month I hit legend for the first time (august 2020).
After that I struggled a couple months with hitting legend but never finishing worse than diamond 4 but after that I’ve basically gotten legend rank any month I really felt like putting in the effort which has been most of them other than a couple months in the AV meta that I really disliked.
My general tips for improving at the game would be:
- Pay for hsreplay if you can afford the $5 per month, the rank appropriate data is worth it
- Check recent matchup spreads for underplayed decks that do well against most of the top 5-8 decks
- When you find a deck that you can play well stick with it for as long as you want to climb
- After each game take a couple minutes and think about a decision that you could’ve made differently that would’ve impacted the outcome of the game
- It’s ok to stop playing after losing a couple of games in a row to avoid tilt
- Try to stay away from the most popular deck in the meta because playing it means lots of 50/50 matches where luck of the draw matters a lot
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