I’m currently rank 8 silver. I think my max rank is around gold 8. Pre-ladder changes, my best rank was maybe rank 12. I am aware that I’m a mediocre player at best.
I’ve been getting crushed all afternoon, so I added some of my opponents. Every opponent that has accepted my friend request is legend rank.
I’ve lost about 27 of my last 30 matches, mostly because I’m chasing an achievement. Why on earth is it matching me against legend players?
Because the game feels that the level you are at. Therefore, you are going to be pitted against other players who have previously hit legend. However, I am going to assume that those players are climbing back up the ranks to legend and you just happen to go up against them as they were going back up. I have never gone up against another player who was below diamond 10 when in legend. For someone who is currently ranked in Legend, they would not face an opponent currently ranked in silver because it would completely mess up the MMR system.
To be honest… one of the reasons why I decided to actually try was because I kept going up against other players who have hit legend. And every time I beat someone with a legend cardback, I was like… hmmmm if I try hard enough and focus, I can reach legend! and I did. 
And you can 2.
Pre patch demon hunters crawling into legend, that’s what happened.
I’m seeing amateur evolve shamans looking for their first legend card back all over ladder too.
Are these current Legend players?
Or people who got it playing Pirate Warrior 4 years ago, sporting the card back and roping your every turn to signal their perceived superiority over you (I know these turds)?
BTW I never sport the Lego cardback ( that’s how I know those turds) not even the day I first got it, so you don’t know how many more people you play against have made it to Legend at some point.
Why on earth would the game feel like I’m worthy of being matched against legend players? I’ve never even hit gold 5.
Maybe you’re just to hard on yourself.
Are these current Legend players?
Or just turds who got their BFF to get Legend for them to sport the card back?
So far all the ones that have accepted my invite are current legend. Between ranks 10,000 and 2300.
I’m about 4-50 so far today. I’m literally stuck at silver 10.
Really? Wow. That absolutely doesn’t sound right.
Honestly I usually quit for the month if I hit Legend, but I don’t remember playing against someone with such a low Rank. Usually lots of Diamonds.
Were you previously mainly a casual player who is now playing ranked because of the new quest reqs?
Are you still getting bonus stars on the ladder?
It’s possible your MMR is higher than you think from all your casual play.
That’s possible. I was playing an OTK mage deck last month in unranked wild, and I was doing really well (~70% WR). It didn’t work well in ranked wild though.
A few more people accepted my friend requests, and they’re silver rank. Now I don’t understand why it bounces between legend and silver opponents.
I hit legend in wild then I swap to standard, I don’t have terribly good standard cards, not even a meta deck so I never go higher than platinum generally.
Casual MMR and Rank MMR are tracked separately.
Maybe lower-ranked people play Legends because Legends play the game a lot. You may want to try a different deck though. The Wild ladder seemed kinda soft to me so far this month. I’m at Gold 6, which may be my all-time best rank. In most months, I barely make it past Gold 10. This is after switching only 2 to 4 cards in my good warlock deck, none of which are legendaries.
Are you certain? I was under the impression that there’s no difference since they redesigned ranked play. I will go look.
Yeah that’s a little odd. 10k legend players might match anywhere based on their mmr, but once you get to 5k legend or so they mostly only face d5-legend players.
If nothing else it’s bizarre that your opponents are in such a wide range.
Matching is based on mmr not rank, and lot of people after they hit legend for the month like to play all kinds of experimental/meme decks which usually makes them lose a lot of games and thus have their mmr drop pretty low.
Yes, it was said by Blizzard (I don’t remember how I knew it though, when it was said)
I’m playing a garbage Greybough deck for the achievement. I probably lost a good 60 matches yesterday, so I’m struggling to understand how a legend player could have a similar MMR.
Aside from the Greybough deck, I haven’t had many wins.
OP is either trolling or forgetting to mention he is playing on 11 stars.
There is 0% chance a real legit silver player with no bonus star would be matched against 2k legend players.
I can’t believe you guys actually believe him