EPTI made a small picture with displaying what league and what portrait border it has
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Existor
Russian Federation4295 Posts
I made a small picture with displaying what league and what portrait border it has | ||
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ACrow
Germany6583 Posts
Good thing, maybe now there won't be so many people asking at the start of the game asking which league I'm in, and can instead concentrate on playing and/or replying to my "gl hf" -.- | ||
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spritzz
Canada331 Posts
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invisible.terran
United States280 Posts
On January 28 2013 06:13 spritzz wrote: I feel Silver vs Plat, gold vs GM, diamond vs masters takes a little squinting to see. I'm not sure about Diamond vs Masters in game. But for the rest, you can't possibly be matched against both Gold and GM (or Silver and Plat), right :s? | ||
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Existor
Russian Federation4295 Posts
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Risljaninasim
Netherlands228 Posts
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Celestia
Mexico376 Posts
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B1itZZ
United Kingdom70 Posts
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shizaep
Canada2920 Posts
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KillingVector
United States96 Posts
On January 28 2013 06:19 invisible.terran wrote: I'm not sure about Diamond vs Masters in game. But for the rest, you can't possibly be matched against both Gold and GM (or Silver and Plat), right :s? Actually, I have. I quit playing HOTS a while ago after cheesing from bronze to silver. Picked it up recently to screw around in unranked ladder. After playing a couple bronze and silver players I was matched against a GM player (ranked 198 of GM). When I saw the after game screen, my jaw dropped. I won the game too :D It was ZvZ and I cheesed. Since then, on the unranked ladder I have played a huge range of players going from silver to diamond. Oddly enough I don't think I've had any masters players yet. Edit: An image for any doubters: + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/LsJcmU6.jpg) Edit2: You forgot to put unranked in the picture. | ||
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HeeroFX
United States2704 Posts
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Whiplash
United States2928 Posts
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Hoon
Brazil891 Posts
On January 28 2013 12:54 Whiplash wrote: I think most people will agree that it can be hard to tell the difference between some of the ranks, they should try and make it a bit more obvious which league the players are in. Maybe it's hard if you've never seem it before, but it should be pretty easy to tell the difference after you've seen it at least once. | ||
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shin_toss
Philippines2589 Posts
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vol_
Australia1608 Posts
On January 28 2013 11:53 KillingVector wrote: Actually, I have. I quit playing HOTS a while ago after cheesing from bronze to silver. Picked it up recently to screw around in unranked ladder. After playing a couple bronze and silver players I was matched against a GM player (ranked 198 of GM). When I saw the after game screen, my jaw dropped. I won the game too :D It was ZvZ and I cheesed. Since then, on the unranked ladder I have played a huge range of players going from silver to diamond. Oddly enough I don't think I've had any masters players yet. Edit: An image for any doubters: + Show Spoiler + Edit2: You forgot to put unranked in the picture. There was something weird going on at the beginning of the new season, I was Platinum and got promoted to GM but still playing vs Gold players and I am in no way worthy of GM so I just left the league, I assume the last few people in GM are at a Gold/Plat level MMR and just stayed in the league because you cant get booted out unless you are inactive. | ||
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Existor
Russian Federation4295 Posts
You forgot to put unranked in the picture. It's just dark blue. | ||
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Locke-
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Omnidroid
New Zealand214 Posts
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lazyitachi
1043 Posts
Seems like a great idea! What about opponents doing placements? Presumably it will show as "unranked"? | ||
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Lasbike
France2888 Posts
Edit : If you see one of the 2 borders only (if you can't compare) | ||
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RayBeans
Germany331 Posts
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Vertigo VII
22 Posts
On January 28 2013 06:13 spritzz wrote: I feel Silver vs Plat, gold vs GM, diamond vs masters takes a little squinting to see. I don't think it will be hard to differentiate. First off, if you're in silver and playing a Plat player, something is going wrong other than the look of the borders. Chances are as a silver player you won't be up against a plat, no problem there. For Diamond & Masters it's a little harder, but I can notice the difference. If you're Diamond and your opponent is Masters you'll see his border is slightly different then remember you're the Diamond player so if there's any difference then the other person should be masters. This will only be a problem in custom games, as I assume that if you're playing ranked 2v2, then the border should change to the relevant league of said team. So if a Plat 1v1 player and a silver 1v1 player were gold together in 2v2, the borders on the load screen would change to Gold for both players for that game. | ||
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papaz
Sweden4149 Posts
Some of the colors are hard to distinguish. | ||
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frostdr
Germany42 Posts
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bigtabs
Germany51 Posts
On January 28 2013 18:02 Lasbike wrote: The difference between Diamond and Master is not really easy to see.. Edit : If you see one of the 2 borders only (if you can't compare) The trick is to look for the detail in the top border, rather than the colour. Masters has a fairly obvious line going through it whereas diamond is plain. | ||
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Iksf
United Kingdom444 Posts
On January 28 2013 20:57 bigtabs wrote: The trick is to look for the detail in the top border, rather than the colour. Masters has a fairly obvious line going through it whereas diamond is plain. Weird that diamond is the only one without those little depressions on each side. | ||
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djfoxmccloud
France185 Posts
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birchman
Sweden393 Posts
Also, when I was silver, I met plenty of plats on the ladder as my MMR was getting higher, so it's not impossible at all. | ||
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BronzeKnee
United States5217 Posts
On January 28 2013 06:13 spritzz wrote: I feel Silver vs Plat, gold vs GM, diamond vs masters takes a little squinting to see. Me too, especially when they are much smaller on the load screen. They should have differentiated them a bit more, particularly Diamond and Masters. | ||
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Tuczniak
1561 Posts
On January 28 2013 22:02 djfoxmccloud wrote: Yes, it's 1v1 league.Aren't the border around the protrait only representing people's 1v1 Ladder ? | ||
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SoBeDragon
United States192 Posts
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Pughy
Wales662 Posts
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Existor
Russian Federation4295 Posts
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Apolo
Portugal1259 Posts
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Existor
Russian Federation4295 Posts
On January 29 2013 03:57 Apolo wrote: Nice, one more addition so that bad players feel bad about themselves. Blizzard has casuals in mind indeed. I actually find this addition useful, but if i was in bronze or silver i might feel kind of ashamed to have my (bad) performance show up like a banner on top of my head. Thats why Blizzard introduced groups where all players from different leagues can find practice partners | ||
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P7GAB
Canada486 Posts
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BisuDagger
Bisutopia19225 Posts
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Vei
United States2845 Posts
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Mudkipnick
Korea (South)241 Posts
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bigtabs
Germany51 Posts
On January 28 2013 21:23 Iksf wrote: Weird that diamond is the only one without those little depressions on each side. Probably because diamond is the only gemstone. | ||
Zelniq
United States7166 Posts
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Extenz
Italy822 Posts
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CamoPillbox
Czech Republic229 Posts
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arcHoniC
United States141 Posts
The colors don't match currently... | ||
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Existor
Russian Federation4295 Posts
On January 31 2013 03:42 arcHoniC wrote: The diamond and masters should be switched in the OP's first picture IMO. The colors don't match currently... What you mean? Text color? Diamond is more blue, when Master is closer to cyan color. | ||
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arcHoniC
United States141 Posts
Edit: you would think the lighter portrait outline would match the lighter symbol (diamond symbol is lighter than master symbol and yet the portrait outline for diamond is darker than the portrait outline for masters holy crap edit 2: under further inspection it looks like the diamond portrait outline has a crystalline texture to it, which obviously matches the diamond rank, I do wish the colors were switched though ^^ | ||
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Zerg.Zilla
Hungary5029 Posts
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TheVoicedElk
United Kingdom28 Posts
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Mista_Masta
Netherlands557 Posts
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NVRLand
Sweden203 Posts
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imPermanenCe
Netherlands595 Posts
On February 02 2013 19:58 NVRLand wrote: Such a small change that would be huge to prevent confusion... :/ Haha, I totally agree. I like it | ||
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Pucca
Taiwan1280 Posts
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PineapplePizza
United States749 Posts
That icon at the bottom-center is a really, really good idea | ||
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SynQ
United States19 Posts
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Zode
Canada297 Posts
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Ace1123
Philippines1187 Posts
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TheJiveBuddha
United States3 Posts
If you play 2v2, your current highest 2v2 league would be around your border. Vice versa for 3v3 and 4v4. When you play 1v1 or Arcade games it could be your current 1v1 standing. | ||
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419fish
United States35 Posts
Actually, I have. I quit playing HOTS a while ago after cheesing from bronze to silver. Picked it up recently to screw around in unranked ladder. After playing a couple bronze and silver players I was matched against a GM player (ranked 198 of GM). When I saw the after game screen, my jaw dropped. I won the game too :D It was ZvZ and I cheesed. Since then, on the unranked ladder I have played a huge range of players going from silver to diamond. Oddly enough I don't think I've had any masters players yet. ya there is something wrong with HOTS GM one season i was going 50/50 in my silver league and then it placed me in GM super hillarous | ||
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iEchoic
United States1776 Posts
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SohcranA
United States36 Posts
On January 28 2013 06:19 invisible.terran wrote: I'm not sure about Diamond vs Masters in game. But for the rest, you can't possibly be matched against both Gold and GM (or Silver and Plat), right :s? You'd be surprised. The MMR is weird in hots. I beat a GM and then got matched up against a gold player 1 or two games after. -_- | ||
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Mahtasooma
Germany475 Posts
On January 28 2013 06:13 spritzz wrote: I feel Silver vs Plat, gold vs GM, diamond vs masters takes a little squinting to see. That's because you're male trying to figure out colors, that's fine. | ||
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Lunden
Denmark79 Posts
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ronpaul012
United States769 Posts
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mantequilla
Turkey779 Posts
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Yngvi
Netherlands70 Posts
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Futabot
United States37 Posts
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TheSwagger
United States92 Posts
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onPHYRE
Bulgaria907 Posts
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Grobyc
Canada18410 Posts
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ElMeanYo
United States1032 Posts
On February 25 2013 06:03 Mahtasooma wrote: That's because you're male trying to figure out colors, that's fine. lol, well played. | ||
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BeyondCtrL
Sweden642 Posts
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TwesT
United States7 Posts
On February 25 2013 06:14 ronpaul012 wrote: Just curious, for those who played WoL and are switching to Hots, is your rank the same? I stopped playing WoL a while ago and was Diamond, and I still can beat plat's when I play it. Yet in Hots I play bronze-silver-gold player like non-stop. Maybe its because only the higher level players bothered getting the beta and are playing it. Will be interesting to see where if I end up shooting back up once the game actually comes out. No, I went down two ranks when switching to HoTS. Don't know if it's something to do with the beta ranking system or if I just suck at hots xD (Probably a combination of the two) | ||
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quannump
United States3 Posts
One option would be to stick with the elements, add copper back in at the bottom, remove Master and Grandmaster. There are plenty of elements that they could add if that's not enough leagues, that's not the point of this post. Diamond can be thematically the same as elements, while still being different enough for people to recognize that it's special. This leaves us with: Diamond (the new top 200) -> Platinum -> Gold -> Silver -> Bronze -> Copper. Another option would be to drop the elements and re-do the ladder with labels consistent with master and gm. So ... add in 5 skill levels: GM (200) -> Master -> Expert -> Veteran -> Adept -> Amateur -> Novice. Or get rid of all current rankings and introduce a simple grading letters system: S (200) -> A -> B -> C -> D -> E -> F The icons could also the same treatment, we have 3 chevrons, an eagle, a diamond and 2 stars. Why not stick with the military style chevrons, there's plenty more than 3 ranks there. 7 animals maybe? .. You get the point. And like others are saying, make the border colors more distinguishable. We have more colors than blue, orange and silver for 7 leagues. green for masters would match PGA masters jacket. red or purple could work for GM. | ||
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Pigzyf5
Australia131 Posts
I was master all through WoL so would only really vs other masters so I only really care how high they are because i already know they will be a master. Im not sure how often low legue people tend to vs people from other legues | ||
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ant-1
Canada149 Posts
On February 25 2013 16:23 quannump wrote: Why don't they use the expansion as an excuse to unify the ranking theme? Now its split between 4 elements, a mineral, and 2 skill ranks. Meaning 7 leagues or 6 leagues + a top 200. It's not the end of the world, but it could use some consistency I think. One option would be to stick with the elements, add copper back in at the bottom, remove Master and Grandmaster. There are plenty of elements that they could add if that's not enough leagues, that's not the point of this post. Diamond can be thematically the same as elements, while still being different enough for people to recognize that it's special. This leaves us with: Diamond (the new top 200) -> Platinum -> Gold -> Silver -> Bronze -> Copper. Another option would be to drop the elements and re-do the ladder with labels consistent with master and gm. So ... add in 5 skill levels: GM (200) -> Master -> Expert -> Veteran -> Adept -> Amateur -> Novice. Or get rid of all current rankings and introduce a simple grading letters system: S (200) -> A -> B -> C -> D -> E -> F The icons could also the same treatment, we have 3 chevrons, an eagle, a diamond and 2 stars. Why not stick with the military style chevrons, there's plenty more than 3 ranks there. 7 animals maybe? .. You get the point. And like others are saying, make the border colors more distinguishable. We have more colors than blue, orange and silver for 7 leagues. green for masters would match PGA masters jacket. red or purple could work for GM. That's so true! Blizzard really is the king of organic growth like these leagues or their interface with buttons added in the weirdest places. It seems there is a need for a strong UX specialist in Irvine. | ||
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