It’s no secret this game isn’t much fun. I don’t play this game anywhere near as much as I have in the past.
But this is kind of ridiculous. I’ve had a 10-2 game streak in the last twelve games played, yet I’ve dropped from rank ~450 to 650 legend. I play maybe a few games a day.
No I don’t want to grind your game. But it feels terrible to be winning but losing rank constantly.
It’s not really a big deal when you consider the amount of people playing. If they told you that you were the top 1% of the population it might be better lol
Have you considered playing a deck you find fun, not a meta deck?
Yup, lol that is what I’m playing 
Well, its a meta archetype but it’s my unique build of it (Spelldamage Druid.)
It was fun taking to to like 300 legend, but the grind after that is just so unfun.
Yeah, you should probably stop grinding, it’s not like you are getting paid to reach a certain rank. Might be time to mix up the deck or something.
Yea, this is the point I usually give up grinding a good winrate deck and descend into dumpster tier experimentation.
There is a chance people with higher MMR are finally playing and getting into legend.
Have you considered that, by definition, a fun deck is a meta deck if it is played by someone in the end game?
The same person complaining was saying that people play RNG stuff (Fyrakk) just because it has a good winrate over time.
This is normal early in a month. You aren’t really losing rank, people that were ahead of you last month are just getting into legend later.
Your MMR isn’t dropping, it’s just a symptom of the badly designed ranking system only showing your true legend rank when everyone is already in there. They should just ditch the star ranking system at this point.
I often do the same, but I also often grind to legend with those decks…
This month was a rainbow DK deck.
This, 100%. You got legend early, and expect to hold your rank, while barely playing?
Each legend rank is unique. You want to hold your entry rank? Play the game for more than:
You dont get to the top, let alone stay there, without putting in some sort of effort. A few games a day is no effort, and you should feel ashamed for making this complaint! Why should your few games a day give you a better rank than someone who is willing to grind?!?
Usually I don’t need to play to hold mine
But this month is an exception, because I was learning to pilot the deck that was new and difficult for me and I lost a lot of games.
In such situations I know that I don’t need to play too much, but I still need to play some games and while playing these games I need to win much more often than usual to come back. Yellovvsnovv may follow this strategy too if climbing is the goal.
So, you are saying your rank doesnt decay if you only play 3 games a day?
Sorry, Calling BS on that one bud. You need to be active, especially early in the season, when many players better than you are yet to hit legend, to maintain your rank. A “few games a day” as per the OP’s position simply wont cut it. Never has, never will!
I mean, you definitely can. I’ve been in top 100 with that kind of play pattern. You don’t need to play massive game numbers to have that MMR. It doesn’t degrade over time. (You need to go months without playing for noticeable MMR decay)
The number you see as your legend rank in the first few days/weeks of a month just don’t mean a whole lot. Top 100 tends to stabilize quickly, as many of the players in those ranges do tend to play a lot, but anyone that ended the previous month in the thousands should expect to see their rank naturally shift back to that spot over the first few days, even with an early legend grind. It’s not decay, it’s just people that were ahead of you last month getting into legend and taking their place in line back.
Usually more than that: the safest way to keep it is playing zero games. (I never follow the safest way for purpose, it happens occasionally when I am too busy irl)
It is not like that sometimes (I have described one case above), but “sometimes” is not “usually”.
It is more typical for me to be in no hurry and let them reach legend before I reach it. But I should admit, it is not smth like a strict rule, it highly depends on my mood. Everything described above is not a strict rule, it is more like “usually, more typically”
Yes, it does. You even confirm it:
I would love to see you hit legend on day 1 and finish in top 1K without playing again in that season.
not gonna happen, regardless of your MMR. You NEED to be active top retain that high of a rank, period.
I probably did it in the wild mode, I just can’t remember very well. Maybe it was not the first day, but it was the 3d day. Maybe it was not without playing, but it was with playing no more than 3-4 games during the whole month.
Actually much brighter examples exist, Filfeel (you can watch this guy on MT soon) said he reached one digit legend one day at the beginning of the month, didn’t play on that server (I can’t remember what server, more likely not EU, probably Asia, but maybe NA) and still had one digit in his legend number in the twenties of the month. There were some jokes about his AFK abilities, I mostly remember jokes.
A person that ended the prior month deep in the top 1k can maintain that rank with a day 1 legend push very easily.
Your rank going down at the start of the season from the initial rush of people hitting legend is NOT MMR decay.
Your MMR doesn’t decay without very long times being inactive. (Months) Devs have repeatedly confirmed this. It’s basically not a thing.
Once in top 100, your rank barely changes from day to day, even without playing. I’ve gone a few days without playing and been at a slightly higher rank because people above me lost games.
Yup. This. I think people who have never been into the top 100 and repeatedly cite the “if skill doesn’t matter why do the same people always end up in top 100?”
Well, the game’s ranking system is completely biased, once you hit 100 the month before its near trivial to enter 100 the following month and so on. Well not near trivial, but far more trivial than the first time you enter.
That is what we are discussing.
Your rank will drop if you dont play. Your MMR will not keep you at rank 200 legend if that is your entry rank and you dont play again in that season. You will lose RANKS unless you are active!
Show me a single example of someone who stops playing after hitting legend , early in the season, who maintains their entry rank.
I explicitly stated rank, not MMR, in the post that started this. You introduced that!
I disagree. I hit 30 at the beginning of the month during the first year of playing the game. And 130 in the middle of the month during my first year. But I was so bad in general that I even didn’t reach 11 stars bonus during that year (it happened later). I was so bad that I often finished in 5 digits legend.
It is probably trivial for you because you are just good now and you didn’t have a phase in the past when you were active + lucky sometimes, but at the same time a weak player.