Arena: Losing Rank within a season?
It says fairly often and in several different places that once a rank is achieved it cannot be lost within a season. I lose ranks, not steps toward a rank, but actual rank levels all the time. I'll make it to a new rank (eg. Platinum Tier 2) lose a match and drop back down to my former rank (Platinum Tier 3). What gives?
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[Deleted User] commented
I can confirm that you CAN lose actual rank, or at least COULD. Back during Baldur's Gate I had a streak of going 0-3 in Drafts due to RNG saying "FU" in some form when it came to my land. I dropped from Silver to Bronze.
Also, gonna have to agree. The game says you rank up going up through the tiers. Logically that would mean each tier is its own rank. Otherwise it should merely say "tier up."
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Cl0ckw0rk8east#62695 commented
The problem with this is that when I move from tier to tier it states that I "rank up".
I imagined that it might be as described by Rezzahan, but then the language is not consistent.
Moving from tier to tier is not "Rank[ing] up" because it is a gain that can be lost while "rank" supposedly cannot.
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[Deleted User] commented
The ranks are bronze, silver, gold, platinum, diamond, and mythic. You can lose the tiers within. So if in gold, for example, you cannot drop back to silver, no matter how many games you lose. But you can drop from gold 1 all the way back to gold 4.