I'm done until next patch
Same highroller builds over and over again. I've been grinding for the last couple of days. Maybe around 4 to 5 hours everyday. Reached Masters yesterday and the first thing today was demoted to Diamond 3 again. Trashed another 4 hours to get back to Masters and I'm done until next patch.
The issues that I've encountered so far.
First of all, you must play the same build that gives you enough damage, but also where you have some kind of spare money so you can level up, because not keeping with level ups debuffs you too strongly. You wouldn't have enough life at day 10, you'll die instantly from basically any build there.
Second thing, I see that I went back to playing the same build over and over again, being it for example arcane build or some sort of storm build or some sort of elven build with multicast or with dreamcatcher, anything that will dish a ton of damage by day six or seven, because if you don't do so, you are basically dead.
Third thing, the edge between leveling up and buying new items is insanely thin. If you don't have good items and level up, you will die at day six to seven to eight. If you see good items and grab them instead of leveling, you will die at day six or seven. So it's basically all over again and doesn't make any sense.
And last but not least thing is the same amount of ghosts that you have encountered during the run. I don't know why, but maybe it's because not a big number of player base. But the thing is that you start to encounter some insanely strong ghosts at around day eight until day 10. So basically I had multiple encounters with endless builds that were already by day nine or by day 10.
As soon as you are in Masters and you don't have enough luck, enough RNG, and you don't have your full build online on day six, you basically can concede the run and start over again because you will be dead. So you will not have any points or even if you don't won the first eight days, you don't even get your break-even point and you will be sure to demote.
Yeah, I can understand that by grinding for the whole day and taking the game really competitively, you will soon enough achieve Masters and also Grandmasters. But it doesn't make sense because the game loop currently doesn't give you any reward at all besides funny stickers or name tags after the season ends. When will the season end nobody knows, so you basically don't have any incentives to stay in the game loop besides getting awesome build up or basically beats endless. But like now beating endless in Season 2 seems just a waste of time because you would get another plus 15 points of rating if you are lucky enough, if not you will maybe lose another 15 points of rating. So it also just doesn't make sense to invest so much time in endless if you're trying to climb.
Sorry for the rant guys, but I'm really annoyed and frustrated and need to vent.
Bocary, please dont take it personally, I know and I see how much great work you do and how much you care for the community. Hopefully somehow this could help.