So I have never spent even a dollar on this game. Was curious what people consider to be a decent rank for a free player? I mainly play Wild. My best was 12 maybe 11. Still fairly new to trying to ladder.
Doesn’t really matter if you are f2p or not.
You can easily obtain the best deck in the meta by just doing your dailies every day. Might take a month or two though on a fresh account, but you will get there.
For me anything below rank 5 is bad because I myself can reach it by playing silly decks and not taking it seriously. If you are new to the game rank 11-12 is pretty good though.
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Depends how much you play. Even if you only do your quests usually, rank 10 is still very easy to achieve, and if you play relatively regularly, I’d consider rank 5 or better to be good.
It depends on how long you’ve been playing.
Fact of the matter is, ftp is slow at rate of accumulation. However, if you’ve been playing since the very beginning, you should be able to maintain 1-3 decks for legend every expansion, as often times adjustments are fairly minor and you can farm out enough resources equivalent for up to 100 pack worth of card/gold/dust per expansion fairly easily.
That said, when you are new, rank 15-20 would be about the best you can do, w/o spending money to catch up. For each expansion thereafter, you can gain up to 5 ranks (san the first one, if it occurs with in ~1 month of you joining the game)
So your rank would be rather good for player under a year of playing, not so much if you’ve played longer.
I’m a FTP player, and I started last year when Witchwood released. I don’t remember exactly my rank every month but for me I was hanging around rank 20-15 for the first 9 months with some exceptions where I would go up to like rank 11 or 12.
After rotation this year though my rank jumped a lot because all the powerful mammoth cards that i didn’t own rotated out, and also because i was playing more. So i’ve been at rank 5 for the past few months.
Honestly for me rank is more related to how many hours I play each month. Also it’s easier to stay at a high ranker once you get there. Like I’ve probably played like 3 or 4 hours of ladder so far this month, but i’m still at rank 6 since i had a higher rank last month.
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it depends how much time you put in the game , i can maintain Legend rank with 2 hours a day maybe sometimes 3 ^^ on the weekends ofc im playing more around 5 to 6 hours.
That’s very true. Hearthstone has winstreak mechanics up to rank 5, which means you can theoretically reach it even with a winrate as low as 40 percent, since you get extra stars for consecutive wins, but don’t lose extra stars for consecutive loses.
It’s all about the grind. 
I saw in a Wiki article that even reaching just rank 15 puts you in the top 25% of the player base.
Also non active players ?
I think that was from before they changed how new season rank are issued?
It used to take quite a bit of grind every season to maintain better rank. Now you only need to regrind 4-5 ranks, which is far easier.
It’s a pretty heavy time commitment to rank, if you are relying on a winstreak to happen with a 40% win ratio, that would take you in the hundreds of games to even go up each 5 rank bracket and you only have a month to do that so theoretically possible, also helps for your win streaks to all be in a row, but if they were more spread out, well its a lot of variance. But… people do tend to get more experimental when they are at rank 15,10,5 and I guess all you need to happen is to get free wins to 12 for instance, have RNG go your way and get a small win streak til 10 if you were really trying. But honestly past 10 as f2p is hard because you’ll be missing cards most metas, you’ll be able to 90% finish a deck most of the time and not having a card like zilliax or something even though you’re playing a proper archetype, would supposedly reduce your winrate odds with such most decks by about 3%, so I would say missing 5 cards might make the deck work well about 10% less of the time.
So I just found on HSReplay 4.6% of people aren’t net decking so that really means if you are not playing a full deck, players performing averagely will receive between 29.3% - 43.3% are the variance of averages across the different classes. So this means probably close to 80% of people do pay to play and the whole basis for these arguments is well he say she say you can have more if you are f2p but it’s a very clear bias when you compare these to the top decks winratios that are well ~55% for the top five decks. Then you can look at the spread of players who play these top five decks 31.2%.
try to do early push from rank 4 to legend… xD with all those tryharders its impossible.
Been playing Hearthstone for 6 months… Got rank 12 month 1… And rank 4 each month thereafter. I hit rank 5 with a 960 dust hunter deck.
I think for new players if you get rank 10 plus it’s good… But rank 5+ is where you want to be when you’re used to the game.
Rewards are better there too
Yeah hunters the only way I can get to rank 10. I’m looking at the cheapest decks on here hsreplay so it would cost me roughly 100 dust for a pauper hunter deck, or 500 for pauper token druid or mech warlock zoo. Maybe I should craft that missing springpaw. Are you playing with zilliax to get to rank 5? Actually most of the next tier up decks that I could make for about 1650 dust don’t tend to use zilliax and use zul’jin.