Quote Originally Posted by Towa-Musa View Post
Yes if you reached crystal ranked at all i suggest you go and play the lotto
I guess the regulars at top 100 are incredibly good at lotto, though I don't think most of them have won the Jumbo cactpot.

Sure the system has its faults, the whole thing with Stars like Hearthstone is complete crap and the extended bracket nonsense makes early and mid ranks a horrible experience for newer player. Lack of proper chat and re-using sound effects / no visuals on the chat calls is plain bad design. Extremely slow and unresponsive GMs to reports lets griefers and ragers go free and at time unpunished etc.

Despite everything the climb is still entirely doable, as my newer friends pushed Diamond with some coaching. They did say that the game is incredibly more coinflippy in lower ranks which makes it annoying bs to trawl through and based on the S3 full reset experience I agree to a point. Having to adjust to teams that lack basics or some that have 1 player that performs vastly better or worse than others among all the other variables just favors playing a Job that can hard carry better instead of those that are more reliant on team coordination.

Until SE finally picks up their brain from the floor and just makes the whole Ranked use Crystal Score from the beginning and bit heavier +/- modifiers to compensate, the climbs will remain incredibly streaky and zero sum game.