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Casual Mode Needed

#1

I am enjoying this game a lot, but there’s a big problem for me. No, it’s not that Vanar has been awful to play against literally since I started in Beta. It’s the fact that, for scrubs like me, there’s no real point in playing for the first 20 days of the month. I’m never going to be an amazing player. I get that. I don’t have enough time/I’m not smart enough. But seriously I can’t pass rank 20 until a long time into the month. And I hate gauntlet. I’m terrible at it.

I don’t think it’s a problem with my decks, or the way I play, it’s the fact that for a long time I keep running up against opponents who have 1400+ wins (because of all their banners), or have multiple legendaries that I can’t deal with. I can tell when I’m playing against players I have no business playing against. For me, the beginning of the month means losing over and over and over at Rank 20.

Why in the ever-living heck isn’t there a casual mode?! I’m sure this has been posted before, but seriously . . .

#2

Well, first of all, welcome to the forums, weary traveler! Indeed the question has been raised several times.

It doesn’t matter how many times we ask about it, the consensus seems to be that the playerbase is too small to handle the split…especially with Gauntlet already doing exactly that. It is a problem, I guess, if the queue is split into thirds. The saving grace of Gauntlet is that it is not for everyone, and that it has rewards beyond allowing you complete the standard Daily Quests.

It has also been argued that a casual mode would bring in enough new players to compensate. While that may have been more true a few months ago, I think enough players have quit precisely because of the lack of variety in game modes to hinder this theory.

At this point, the only thing I can think of that would help Casual Mode survive is a combination of three initiatives happening all at once:

1: An substantially increased marketing investment

2: A powerful, fun, and balanced expansion

3: Re-introduce Casual Mode with more intelligent match-making algorithms

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#3

1-make some friends.
2-add them to your friends list.
3-challenge them when they’re online.
4-???
5-profit

honestly half the people on the forums use the same names as their usernames in game. just go for it.

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#4

I believe step 4 is: don’t be a dick to your new friends…:sunglasses:

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#5

I doubt that a casual mode will achieve what you want.
If it gives out rewards, then there will be plenty of S and D playing it, to do quests with weaker factions and stomping new players.
If it doesn’t, there will be complains about the lack of rewards. Also a similar mode already exists with Challenge a friend.

#6

Maybe casual mode should not be accessible to S or Diamond rank players. Furthermore what if certain cards were used and there was a limit to how many copies of the same card you could have?

#7

Or simply have an mmr used for pairing in casual mode as well, just like other games. That way people can make their quests in casual mode with factions they aren’t comfortable with and don’t have to worry about their ladderrank while at the same time prevent abuse from highranked players.

That being said, I don’t think a casual mode would help op at all. If he can’t leave rank 20 anyway then casual mode wouldn’t change much. He isn’t losing rank at rank 20. His problem is the ladderreset.

#8

In my opinion Rift is intended as the casual mode people want and I expect it to come back before mobile release.

#9

I think ancient bonds could have been this if you exclude what faie & co got. I see few problems with other factions, and they all seem to be in a fairly decent spot.

#10

Also the Magmar tools are quite busted, which explains why Vaath and Faie have been dominating the ladder for the last 3 months. I expect a couple of nerfs coming and I hope the expansion will give good tools to reshape the meta again.

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#11

What are friends for? :wink:

#12

Duelyst log: 16th of June. I can now safely venture up to Rank 15. It has been tough going. One Vaath I played used 3 plasma storms in a row and beat me. I shuddered at the power of his topdecking. I will report further if I survive. Hold me.

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#13

Related note and question - I myself am only around rank 13/12 right now, yet am consistently pitted with people who have ribbons and experience that are multiples higher than I ever did during my gold climbing in the past.

Where I used to see people with around 3 or so ribbons, in the last ten matches or so, at least half of them had more than 7 or so (2 recent was a 12 ribbon songhai and 7 ribbon magmar player - both playing their main factions, and by 12, i mean 12 of JUST songhai alone, not including the other faction ribbons they had).

This isn’t a complaint at all, but more of trying to understand what’s going on.

#14

Were they also from silver? or were they in gold or diamond?

#15

I was dueling them in silver, I have no idea if they are gold or diamond.

#16

Doesn’t it show you under their name?

#17

You’re right. Gold, 7 ribbons on magmar with 17 ribbons total (i have 3: 2 song, 1 vanar)

#18

it could be older players testing “different” decks. Or they could be returning after a long haitus

#19

Yeah, most likely people coming back after leaving the game. I’ve seen a lot of people doing that recently.

#20

You can only pick one