I am thinking:
Bronze = rank 20-25
Silver = rank 15-19
Gold = rank 10-14
Platinum = rank 5-9
Diamond = rank 1-4
You can see where I messed up in my example, but I’m too lazy to fix. Is this the right idea though? I have never actually gotten to rank 5, so I’m trying to figure out whether I’ve gotten a new highest rank if I hit diamond.
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About right. I was always around ranks 3 or 4 in the old ladder.
In the new one, past two Seasons I hit rank 1 diamond, but could not reach legend. So I’d say maybe ranks 2 and above in the old ladder will be new legend.
But then in the old ladder I can’t be bothered to go beyond that cos there’s no rewards. Now there’s an extra pack in reaching legend, and more stars.
diamond cant be rank 1-4 … theres no way xD i would say its more like 5-8 back in old system.
You are getting an epic to your chest and no more additional stars from winstreak starting from Diamond 5. So old rank 5 is exactly new Diamond 5.
You cannot lose your stars in Bronze so old rank 20 in new Silver 10.
Thanks all - I will just worry about hitting diamond first and then see if I can make it to D5 
My take on it is that it’s easier to get back to your old rank as in you need a lower win ratio. But for me personally it takes me more games to achieve this, I think just grinding your way through platinum 10-1 seems to take a really long time. But it should definitely be easier to hit legend from diamond 5 because you do need less stars.
Overall the rewards system is less dust, you need to hit legend for max rewards and even then still it is less rewarding than hitting diamond 5 in the old system. It may seem like it’s great, when you notice you end up with like 10 rares you didn’t have but then when you disenchant that juicy golden epic it was 400 dust versus like 200 dust from 10 rares and 100 dust from a non golden epic and you used to get more dust on top of that and stuff. Either way I reached diamond 1 last season no problem and I am diamond 3 this season. In the previous system I’d get to rank 5 and end up getting about 52% win ratio after that point so I never bothered to push any further, cept one season when I made it to diamond 3.
There are no equivalent ranks to the old same system. it is all over the place. it is about the MMR. If legend players can be matched against Bronze players, that is equivalent, right?
The new rewards system can randomly give you more rewards, but no golden epic is less consistent dust. You don’t get the choice of keeping a golden epic worth 1600 dust, or disenchanting it and getting 400 dust straight up.
Last month, I opened a Legendary in my packs and disenchanted 5 duplicate rares, so maybe it was 240 dust + epic + the Legendary I get to keep. Overall, that’s more than the old system, but it’s not consistent though. You get to fill out the latest set, but don’t get the choice of epic, if you want to.
Has anyone noticed that once you have all the epics in one set their drop rate in each pack becomes almost non existent? Very little chance of ever dusting an epic duplicate…
But what you’re referring to is a bunch of single time only rewards. You’re also maybe forgetting about the 3 golden commons + 25 dust you could also earn in the old system along side the golden epic. I mean like yeah sure you can say that 4 extra packs (diamond rank) has an 80% chance of an epic and 20% chance of a legendary and you could factor that in as well. But I’d hazard a guess and say that I had to play way more games to get to diamond 5 then I did previously. So while rewards are relatively quite similar, when I go slightly more casual then I’m not going to reach diamond 5 or legend.
In the old system I’d reset from r5 - r9, I would need 20 stars I think, if you got like 70% winrate to get there like I believe most people were capable of who did it every month and earned a few bonus stars from win streaks which is normal… then… you could have about 30 wins - 15 losses and you’d already be there.
compare that to now, I think getting to platinum is easy but requires about 10-15 games, working through platinum you get 2 stars per win, lose one star for a loss, need 30 stars, maybe 20-35 games depending on win ratio and win streak bonus but as you can see what I’m saying is that you’ve almost played as many games just getting to diamond 10 as I had to diamond 5 in the old system.
That’s not correct. The new system is working on MMR and ranks, if you have still a starbonus (from 2x - 11) you are matched by your MMR (Pool 1) and when you don’t have a starbonus you are matched based on your ranks (Pool 2). That means a legend player can’t play vs real bronce players, it’s not possible, because both are in different pools of players. Legend rank is expectional, because it’s always in the first pool.
Old and new system have no similars. I better compare new rank diamond 5 to red 25 in roulette.
The only way someone at Legend is facing someone at Bronze is if the player at Bronze has a MMR that indicates they should be Legend.
Nah not entirely true, a player can get to legend, start messing around with meme decks and then tank to like platinum tier. Bronze player could have a platinum MMR because that’s not even too hard to obtain. Like if I get sick of my main decks then anything else I create cannot even come close to viable.
Agree - and i think they should also give more dust for each rank up. Reaching rank 1 has no value vs rank 5.
Well I would have hit diamond finally, but apparently the bug where you sometimes don’t get a star after winning is real lol. Feeeeeelsbad