I’m a returning player. I haven’t played since August. I’m not satisfied with the new ladder system. Why am I matched against Legendary players when I’m at Gold 8 rank? I know that I won some number of matches in a row and that the ELO rating went up, but still I shouldn’t be playing against a players that are that highly ranked. If I’m Gold 8 rank I want to play against Gold 5-10 rank players only. Seriously, why did they have to change the ranked system? It was good enough back in the days. Every game I play at the ladder right now feels like a final of the Champions League. The intensity and the stress is similar to being one or two games away from Legendary rank.
The decks that I encounter at the ladder are only top tier meta decks that aren’t likely to be beaten with the deck I’ve been playing with (Dragon hunter and tempo DH). I can’t compete even casually with the deck I love. There is much less variety than it used to be. I enjoyed the old ladder much more since it was more fun at rank 20, meeting more versatile decks.
blad i completely agree with you about gold players only playing gold players and all that stuff.
Ok, having a problem with the match making is fine, but thinking the old system was better and then giving an example that makes no sense…well makes no sense. The old ladder system was filled with janky stuff at teh end of each month up to rank 14, so you could play meme decks up to that point if you wanted. Guess which rank 15 now is? Gold 10. So it’s exactly the same as before in that regards, you’ve just climbed higher up the rankings. It’s no different, you can still lose a bunch, be at a rank floor and meme away if you want, just like the old system.
To me the system is fairer as it means weaker players face weaker players, so you don’t get the jam at the beginning of each month where weaker players nearly constantly face players who are better than them. But then again the rank of my opponent never bothered me, especially when it came to legendary opponents, as I usually found them to be easier to beat than those hungry still on the climb.
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Remember my post about Legendary Rank players playing the lower ranks due to lack of players in those ranks. Its come to pass you can now play Legendary Ranked players in Silver, within a month I would not be surprized if Bronze played them. Then the whole system would be a laughing stock looking at the launch when they introduced it, saying it would not happen.
Looking at your sentence about gold 10 being Rank 15. Then you would not get legendary Rank Player playing Rank 15 players in the old system as you do in the new system.