I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s mentioned this. And yes, I know the gap between Glad and r1 technically depends on ladder inflation, but I think most of us know that for the typical season that gap is already fairly substantial. With Blizzard lowering “Elite” rank from 2400 to 2300, that gap will grow even more. And I just feel like that leaves a lot of empty space. There are many players who are well above the 2300 rating level but not rank 1, and so making rank 1 the next achievement level kind of disincentivizes pushing rating beyond 2300 since “I already got glad and I won’t get rank 1 so whatever”.
r1 now 100 wins above 2700 gg
0.5% FOS
no title, no cosmetic, no fomo just straight up seasonal 0.5% FoS
it’ll never happen though, they basically said initially that the ladder had become too cliquey and challenging to penetrate so they wanted to gladiator blanket to basically ingulf duelist hoping it would open the upper echelon up to a wider portion of players
duelist was basically a slur and now it doesn’t exist because once you pass rival two you’re basically at gladiator
It is interesting how glad became top 2% to 8% and it still wasn’t enough in their opinion. 
Actually surprised they didn’t somehow crank mmr another 200 early-mid season to try to bump it nearer to SL levels which hopefully gets solo queue players encouraged to try it which further pushes up the ladder.
Probably wouldn’t affect enough players for blizzard to care unfortunately.
My wish list would be unique mounts for 2s, shuffle, and blitz, 5 min max queue times for dps in shuffle, and solo queue for 2s, solo/duo queue for 3s.
Another blitz/random bg map would be cool, epic bg is an L imo since they can’t be played smoothly unless you nuke your graphics settings every time you want to play.
For a 3s reward between glad and r1, how would you guys feel about a hot juicy pennant?
Maybe a pennant AND a temp title “Battle Bender”?
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This is like reducing obesity by changing the definition of obese from 30 BMI to 35
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Don’t forget sync qers. First thing I thought of when I saw the new EBG was “how are they gonna ruin this one?”
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Would honestly kind of own if each bracket had a cool distinct reward so it wasn’t just play easiest bracket for 2400 then putter around an get a few elite sets on alts
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Recolored Elite sets or Void Purple Tyranny at 2.4
What about old ones 
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In time.
You know that it’s inevitable.
Only if they’re higher than Elite, and only one per season. That would be my compromise.
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My suggestion (assuming current cutoffs) would just be a sum of wins above 2100/duelist in 3v3, say 25 or 50. This helps add a more approachable yet enticing reward for shufflers to leave the comfort of their solo queue to try to queue with others.
Again, in 3v3 so people can’t just get it in solo.
Elite already has glad.
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Im honestly surprised they haven’t done that yet.
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I still don’t think it would be enough to get them to play with each other. When was the last time you saw a shuffler on these forums, in-game, or in Discord actually own up to their rating or their losses being their own shortcomings?
They hate each other.
Edit: I think you’d net some fashionistas/completionists though.
Think about the more subtle aspect of adding a 2100 carrot, then glad being 2300. This gets more people playing, making those ratings seem easier (they would be) and then it kind of compounds.
Just need to get the ball rolling.
50 wins above 2100 in 3v3 gives you a token that can be redeemed for one legacy elite set (limit of 1 set per class per season, so you can get 1 mage, 1 rogue, but not 2 mages with alts).
50-100 wins above 2500-2800 or whatever threshold, seasonal gladiator.
If we’re still pretending they’ll ever do anything then ground mount for strategist and/or 2s elite. Also unranked reward track because right now casuals have no cool things to work towards.
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It wouldn’t be in the next xpac. At least not the first season otherwise they would have announced it by now.
If they made a rotating monthly track for just participating in ranked ala trading post I’d play the game twice as much ngl.
Buy cosmetics with honor or something that’d be sick.
No it’s def early enough for them to make changes
They won’t because game runs on a skeleton crew as we can see by their attempt to fix the game by reducing the strategist cutoff by 100 when the ladder starts at 2800