Whenever I see these insane titles from Rarran and the first thing I think is. "Why is he doing this to himself? Are you ok Rarran? You know you don't need to publicly flog yourself to get views."
Hi Rarran, your video inspired me to try to get to legend with loaner decks only. So I started 2 days ago on a new account and I got to legend tonight, mostly sludge warlock from rank 5 platinum to legend. I went 100-44 so far (61-23 on walock). So it wasn’t that grindy. I have to say that I am really impressed of how blizz made it more accessible for new players. Back then right after Blackrock Mountain I made a similar experience getting to legend with a poor’s man midrange combo druid and it took me a month from a brand new account. I had to grind the arena a lot just to get the ressources to make the deck. The path to legend was longer and more grindy back then. Keep the good work blizz to make a better experience for new players!
This challenge was really great to watch live - it got me through some really difficult personal times that were going on. Thank you and I really hope you continue these, irrespective of the views, but make sure the challenge is something you’ll enjoy.
As a returning player using the Plaguebringer deck it really is a meta deck already so this "challenge" is a lot easier than building with random free packs. High rank Deathknight is either a slight variation on that deck, rainbow Control or handbuff.
Rainbow is stronger, but this one is mid tier-2 meta deck which is perfectly capable of reaching legend. He also shows us adjusted vsmetareport stats, while other sites like d0nkey/hsguru displays plague DK's wr as 53% at d1-4 bracket. Whole purpose of this video just clickbait.
@@EveningAsylum It's not a clickbait. He did in fact reach legend without opening a single pack. You could argue that it was easier becauses he got the death knight deck for free, but so does anyone else starting the game right now. And a year from now there might be a different free deck that is playable in high rank. The video isn't about reaching legend with a shitty deck, it's about reaching legend on a fresh account without spending money on packs.
well deserved like, the video albeit long was really entertaining, your personality and the really good editing made the time go fly by. keep up the good work and have fun!
I've been watching you for like, a year now or so. I can safely say this is by far the best video I've seen from you to date. In all honesty, one of the best Hearthstone challenges I've seen in my almost 10 years of playing. It was brilliant. Well played.
Loved this, it instantly took me back to how i felt the first time making the sweaty grind. The range of emptions. This might be a challenge worth trying
Seriously Rarran, your ability to make an engaging video using narration to stitch across multiple days of content is very impressive. I always look forward to these types of videos. I can 100% foresee a great career in (e-)sportscasting for you along with streaming.
As a returning player, I was very surprised to learn the loaner decks are actually meta. I am currently in diamond running Plaguebearer with only a couple of card changes. I will say shutting down Reno feels really good since I still have some memories of going up against the OG Reno decks
You've been one of the most dedicated hearthstone creators that I've followed. You've got skill, and you show us all what it means to GRIND! Keep it up Rarran!
Watched all 35 hours of the full uploaded streams on youtube following this journey, was fun to watch the editing and condensed version of those streams. Ps cant believe you managed without the Elise pack, thats crazy!
just disenchant everything to craft whizbang; its decent enough to climb. To tack on though; Ive been around hearthstone since beta and the reality is its always been possible to make a fresh account and get legend playing free-to-play because of some of the things they give you to boost you up as you start. It is not however possible to remain free to play and win after some of the booster things you got rotate out. So a free to play player has to continuously make new accounts and get the new player bonus rewards to stay legend. The idea is they give you bonuses at first, you rank up, you fall out, you spend money to play more. Just make a new account again :}
not seen ANY heartstone content in YEARS and must say DAM it looks SOOOOOO different and gave me little urge to come back but then i realized it would bee too much money to spend
Fun! I recently came back to hearthstone after like 6 years off - I built a budget Hunter deck and ran with it over something like 50 games to hit legend again...thanks to Rarran for getting me back into HS!
I was waiting for the video for this series because I didn't wanna watch the streams. But I ended up watching them anyways and they were super entertaining. Great video. I hope the next challenge isn't soulsucking!
Recently hit top 2000 as a ftp player. I started playing during Old Gods and stopped about Cobolds and Catacombs-ish, I believe. Always was stuck in 7-10 rank area (old ranked). But recently I returned for a brief moment and wanted to finally get legend, so I played for a month, reaching legend in the final days and getting about top 27000, lmao. But the next month I just steamrolled to the legend in the first week that earned me top 2000. I'd say, the main factors why I got legend in a month, compared to not getting it for several years are: 1. Hearthstone is less popular, especially ranked standard. It means less competition 2. Back then I was about 14 years old, safe to say, I was worse at the game 3. Most importantly, back then I never dusted good cards, even if they were played in expensive decks that I'll never afford. This time I've chosen 4 classes that seemed good this expansion and focused on them, dusting my entire collection, except these classes. That way, I was able to afford highlander shaman, although budget decks like aggro druid and secret mage (and enrage warrior that I got for free) still did most of the heavy lifting. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
@@luker.6967 Said events took place right after the launch of showdown in badlands, so, I don't think my advice regarding meta would be helpful, back then warlock was a dead class. But you can use HSreplays and Hearthstone meta stats, these websites were really helpful overall and especially with the matchups. I was getting destroyed by plague DK and I crafted Secret mage after using these sites, so I started getting destroyed by dragon druid instead, lmao.
I recently came back to Hearthstone, chose the Warrior deck and climbed to plat with it in a couple of days. Well done on Blizzard's part making the decks.
Damn.. I miss Hearthstone 2015-2017. Those was really good times, good cards and all. Nowadays there is about 5000% more cards and it's just ridiculous a lot of it.
Last month was my first real time playing competitive hearthstone. I started playing towards the end of the month, so I had little time to push my rank. I got to diamond with maybe 2 or 3 losses, which I was super happy about. I kept pushing and made it all the way to diamond 1 with few bumps in the way, but I had a 90% winrate deck. I won against everything except priest and shaman. Every single time I made it to diamond 1 all stars, I would lose 4 games in a row. I started session of hearthstone from diamond 3 and I hit diamond 1 full stars 4 times and fell back to diamond 3 every single time. I spent 8+ hours falling and climbing again that day. I gave up and didn't even try to reach legends as I had only 2 days to the month left by then and other things to do
You lied! You lost a game in Bronze 10, because your star bonus was visible on screen (4 stars) and you played DK while being Bronze 10 and Warrior while being Bronze 10, which is not possible, because with a win you would have been Bronze 9 either way! Love you tho :)
"Now for those of you who don't know who I am, I'm a pretty decent Hearthstone player" He lied as naturally as he breathed. I remember I managed to reach Legend, like, back in the early seasons, maybe season 2 or 3, with a shitty F2P Priest deck (literally only Basic cards) which worked by boardclear and constant draw... yeah, early days of HS wasn't exactly hard to do that...
@@Rarran sorry, Rarran, I meant no disrespect. I enjoyed watching the streams, but I felt you were hurting way too much. Love watching you man, but it really pains me when you are not enjoying yourself. Hopefully the video will do great! And I hope you don't force yourself to play like that too much. It is a quick way to burnout.
It's funny that you got two demon hunters as your final boss (bad matchup) and the good matchup as your 3rd because that's literally what happened to me too (my bad matchup was hunter though). I needed 4 days with loaner warlock and plague dk to get to diamond 5 and camped there. This month, I took plagues and then zilliax rogue to legend
Wanna start off by saying Thanks Rarran for getting me back into ranked HS. Been a BG enjoyer for years now like our boy Kripp. I started playing with the DK plague deck 4 days ago having zero games played as DK and after 64 games I'm Plat 2 'n change. Granted I have the meta version and I've barely lost matches. Deck destro locl can die in a fire 😂
You can reach legend if you're a dedicated masochist who also just so happens to be pretty good. Definitely not something for the average player to attempt.
I got back to hearthstone after 4 years and got legend with the warrior loaner deck. I would say the G4-P10 and D4-Legend were the hardest games to play.
Congratulations! HOWEVER: This is well and good, but Hearthstone is anything but free to play friendly. Aside from essentially being limited to one deck, just wait and see what happens when you try and maintain this. You only get loner decks after being inactive for over 90 days. If you are a consistent player, come next season when new cards and sets come out, you may very well be completely fucked. Look at how much gold Rarran had at the end of this. 1275. So what is that, 12 packs. If you watched the full vods of these (which I honestly skimmed through quite a lot), he expressed interest in buying a mini-set, as that did not violate the challenge. He never got enough gold to afford one.... Despite all the packs he did get, eventually it would run thin. I would argue that, after one season (maybe two if not much changes), if you wanted to maintain legendary status, you'll have to spend money. This is exactly how these games get you. They allow you to get far ONCE. After that, give them money or go fuck yourself.
Sometimes im a bit concerned about Rarrans mental health. Like seriously. I remember him almost melting down during the "How good are [expansion x] Legendarys"-series and this also took a huge toll on him. Yeah these videos get clicks and likes and some even like seeing him suffer, but Im not conviced that this is good for him in the longrun Oo
New challenge: Having FUN in Hearthstone without opening a pack
LOL maybe 10 years ago
Just stay in bronze, the challenge doesn’t begin until after that
Ouch, .... Fun
solo modes are fun :P
@@curtisrogers2721you think only having the basic set would be fun on release???
It's really hard if you're not allowed to open the Un'goro pack from Elise
Its almost surreal to have watched this saga go on for over a week on twitch, just to be condensed down to 32 minutes. Amazing work as always
Whenever I see these insane titles from Rarran and the first thing I think is. "Why is he doing this to himself? Are you ok Rarran? You know you don't need to publicly flog yourself to get views."
feel like this title wasn't really that insane tho
0:50 look its baby Rarran how cute
Mr Potato Head
omg hiiii
@@halley_lu I've been caught
Bro that rogue game where you summoned 5 toy Crush's was a riot. Lol
Hi Rarran, your video inspired me to try to get to legend with loaner decks only. So I started 2 days ago on a new account and I got to legend tonight, mostly sludge warlock from rank 5 platinum to legend. I went 100-44 so far (61-23 on walock). So it wasn’t that grindy. I have to say that I am really impressed of how blizz made it more accessible for new players. Back then right after Blackrock Mountain I made a similar experience getting to legend with a poor’s man midrange combo druid and it took me a month from a brand new account. I had to grind the arena a lot just to get the ressources to make the deck. The path to legend was longer and more grindy back then. Keep the good work blizz to make a better experience for new players!
1:40 Dragonbane: "Am I a joke to you?"
The Rarran flashback...he looks so youthful and innocent, unburdened by these cursed challeneges.
This was great watching your adventure through your streams! I hope this video blows up!
This challenges are the type of content I'm suscribed for. Sublime work
Aight, the mention of Elise's Un'goro pack made me laugh out loud
My man Rarran is 100% willing to absolutely demolish his own sanity just so he can provide us with this content. Mad respect for the accomplishment
what a stream, glad to be a part of it. thanks rarran
I'm just now getting to this video and man was it magical. Definitely one of your best videos you've ever put out. Hell yeah bro
This challenge was really great to watch live - it got me through some really difficult personal times that were going on. Thank you and I really hope you continue these, irrespective of the views, but make sure the challenge is something you’ll enjoy.
You know what they say Rarran: the real content is the content you made along the way!
As a returning player using the Plaguebringer deck it really is a meta deck already so this "challenge" is a lot easier than building with random free packs.
High rank Deathknight is either a slight variation on that deck, rainbow Control or handbuff.
Rainbow is stronger, but this one is mid tier-2 meta deck which is perfectly capable of reaching legend. He also shows us adjusted vsmetareport stats, while other sites like d0nkey/hsguru displays plague DK's wr as 53% at d1-4 bracket. Whole purpose of this video just clickbait.
@@EveningAsylum It's not a clickbait. He did in fact reach legend without opening a single pack. You could argue that it was easier becauses he got the death knight deck for free, but so does anyone else starting the game right now. And a year from now there might be a different free deck that is playable in high rank. The video isn't about reaching legend with a shitty deck, it's about reaching legend on a fresh account without spending money on packs.
well deserved like, the video albeit long was really entertaining, your personality and the really good editing made the time go fly by. keep up the good work and have fun!
Was enjoyable to catch a lot of these games and the ending live, good job Rarran!
I've been watching you for like, a year now or so. I can safely say this is by far the best video I've seen from you to date. In all honesty, one of the best Hearthstone challenges I've seen in my almost 10 years of playing. It was brilliant. Well played.
the clock town clock tower sound to time skip at 11:01 was too funny
Was a lot of fun watching this live. Great job!
Loved this, it instantly took me back to how i felt the first time making the sweaty grind. The range of emptions. This might be a challenge worth trying
Seriously Rarran, your ability to make an engaging video using narration to stitch across multiple days of content is very impressive. I always look forward to these types of videos. I can 100% foresee a great career in (e-)sportscasting for you along with streaming.
As a returning player, I was very surprised to learn the loaner decks are actually meta. I am currently in diamond running Plaguebearer with only a couple of card changes. I will say shutting down Reno feels really good since I still have some memories of going up against the OG Reno decks
They are not meta in legend they are tier 3 decks, that can get diamond 5, but have like 45% wr there!
You've been one of the most dedicated hearthstone creators that I've followed. You've got skill, and you show us all what it means to GRIND! Keep it up Rarran!
Masterful tension in the editing on the last game, congratulations ❤
Having not played hs since 2019 and this looks like a fever dream
That was fucking epic. Amazing moments and a sick video to recap the whole thing. The edit is fantastic. One of your best videos for sure.
Watched all 35 hours of the full uploaded streams on youtube following this journey, was fun to watch the editing and condensed version of those streams. Ps cant believe you managed without the Elise pack, thats crazy!
THAT OUR MID-GAMER RARRAN! THATS OUR STREAMER RIGHT THERE!
just disenchant everything to craft whizbang; its decent enough to climb.
To tack on though; Ive been around hearthstone since beta and the reality is its always been possible to make a fresh account and get legend playing free-to-play because of some of the things they give you to boost you up as you start. It is not however possible to remain free to play and win after some of the booster things you got rotate out. So a free to play player has to continuously make new accounts and get the new player bonus rewards to stay legend. The idea is they give you bonuses at first, you rank up, you fall out, you spend money to play more. Just make a new account again :}
As a person who watched him for 22 hr. I can confirm that it was hell. WELL DONE Rarran
not seen ANY heartstone content in YEARS and must say DAM it looks SOOOOOO different and gave me little urge to come back but then i realized it would bee too much money to spend
I had no idea you got number 1 once. That's so incredible! Also I love what you put yourself through for the challenge and our entertainment.
Thats a legendary achievement right there. Hands down the best challenge i've ever seen
another great video, so glad i found this channel.
Banger video alert!
Fun! I recently came back to hearthstone after like 6 years off - I built a budget Hunter deck and ran with it over something like 50 games to hit legend again...thanks to Rarran for getting me back into HS!
Truly stellar content my man! This was such an incredible journey. Congrats on surviving it :)
22:40 Nice, “Rain” by Adrian Berenguer :D
I was waiting for the video for this series because I didn't wanna watch the streams. But I ended up watching them anyways and they were super entertaining. Great video. I hope the next challenge isn't soulsucking!
I love the irony of the intro. “My UA-cam comments say I’m bad, but I’m not.” (30 seconds later) “I made a Ginormous mistake”
Blizzards new strategy:
Save 35 hours, hare's a free pack on us!
Recently hit top 2000 as a ftp player. I started playing during Old Gods and stopped about Cobolds and Catacombs-ish, I believe. Always was stuck in 7-10 rank area (old ranked). But recently I returned for a brief moment and wanted to finally get legend, so I played for a month, reaching legend in the final days and getting about top 27000, lmao. But the next month I just steamrolled to the legend in the first week that earned me top 2000. I'd say, the main factors why I got legend in a month, compared to not getting it for several years are:
1. Hearthstone is less popular, especially ranked standard. It means less competition
2. Back then I was about 14 years old, safe to say, I was worse at the game
3. Most importantly, back then I never dusted good cards, even if they were played in expensive decks that I'll never afford. This time I've chosen 4 classes that seemed good this expansion and focused on them, dusting my entire collection, except these classes. That way, I was able to afford highlander shaman, although budget decks like aggro druid and secret mage (and enrage warrior that I got for free) still did most of the heavy lifting.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
How do you beat warlock, aggro or deck destroy beats me everytime :(
@@luker.6967 Said events took place right after the launch of showdown in badlands, so, I don't think my advice regarding meta would be helpful, back then warlock was a dead class.
But you can use HSreplays and Hearthstone meta stats, these websites were really helpful overall and especially with the matchups. I was getting destroyed by plague DK and I crafted Secret mage after using these sites, so I started getting destroyed by dragon druid instead, lmao.
My heart was pounding during that final match. Great Video! Thank you for enduring!
One of the best HS videos I've ever watched. Great work!!!! Got my Like + Sub
This is my new favorite video of yours. Amazing work!
I recently came back to Hearthstone, chose the Warrior deck and climbed to plat with it in a couple of days. Well done on Blizzard's part making the decks.
As someone who came back to HS for a day to check out the 10 year anniversary and had pretty much nothing, you have my utmost respect
Honestly this video made me feel kinda proud of myself for managing to get to mid-plat with my jank-ass homebrew Excavate Death Knight.
Thank goodness he isn’t cheating with Elise the Trailblazer.
Damn.. I miss Hearthstone 2015-2017. Those was really good times, good cards and all.
Nowadays there is about 5000% more cards and it's just ridiculous a lot of it.
You can use the gold to buy arena pass and get dust from arena because it can give you dust directly so this is actually much easier to do
Last month was my first real time playing competitive hearthstone. I started playing towards the end of the month, so I had little time to push my rank. I got to diamond with maybe 2 or 3 losses, which I was super happy about. I kept pushing and made it all the way to diamond 1 with few bumps in the way, but I had a 90% winrate deck. I won against everything except priest and shaman.
Every single time I made it to diamond 1 all stars, I would lose 4 games in a row. I started session of hearthstone from diamond 3 and I hit diamond 1 full stars 4 times and fell back to diamond 3 every single time. I spent 8+ hours falling and climbing again that day. I gave up and didn't even try to reach legends as I had only 2 days to the month left by then and other things to do
I dont even play hearthstone and watched the whole video, well done!
My man is listening to zelda ost on repeat, instant sub
Rarran is really looking like a Disney twist villain by the end of this
i think this might be one of my favourite videos so far from this channel :)
Haven’t played this game in years and now I will be reinstalling it. Cheers brotha!
Gosh, was one of your best videos, amazing work my man
I watched you hit number one legend live years ago and I think this was both more intense and more impressive
Thanks Rarran, videos like this truly are an inspiration to stop spending so much money on hearthstone!
This dude legit got me back into the game after not playing HS for 5 years. The Hearthstone team should thank him.
You lied! You lost a game in Bronze 10, because your star bonus was visible on screen (4 stars) and you played DK while being Bronze 10 and Warrior while being Bronze 10, which is not possible, because with a win you would have been Bronze 9 either way!
Love you tho :)
go check the vod, the star bonus was a lie, seems to a visual bug
"atleast as I died I got head"
I was there. Best challenge yet man, you're the best. GGS
"Now for those of you who don't know who I am, I'm a pretty decent Hearthstone player" He lied as naturally as he breathed.
I remember I managed to reach Legend, like, back in the early seasons, maybe season 2 or 3, with a shitty F2P Priest deck (literally only Basic cards) which worked by boardclear and constant draw... yeah, early days of HS wasn't exactly hard to do that...
elden ring music always goes hard in a tense situations, very interesting ironman-esk style gamemode 💜
Great editing on this video. It was funny!
After having not played hearthstone in like 8 years i have no clue what the fuck i just watched in that final match
Leaving a comment and like because I felt your pain while watching this. Awesome video!
I really thought you meant you grinded to rank 1 legend. Being the first one to hit legend on rank reset is much less impressive
Hearthstone doesn't deserve your content bro, absolutely amazing
30:24 i may try to steal the cow tbh
sad no brann xd
1:40 hey don’t talk ill about Dragonbane. I still have mine from the Descent of dragons days
Here is a fun challenge :
Get as many cards as possible in 10 days.
Your score is the number of total cards you have, good luck.
More than 20 hours of grinding and hellish climbing for a 30 minute video. This was not one of your brightest ideas, Rarran.
It was also 30 hours of content as he streamed almost all of it
is this a real comment
@@Rarran sorry, Rarran, I meant no disrespect. I enjoyed watching the streams, but I felt you were hurting way too much. Love watching you man, but it really pains me when you are not enjoying yourself.
Hopefully the video will do great! And I hope you don't force yourself to play like that too much. It is a quick way to burnout.
@@bavettesAstartes Don't forget, he was streaming most of this, which is a lot more content than just this video
@@cakeyeater7392 i know. I watched most of it.
I mean, after the new quest changes, this is basically a much needed tutorial
O my. he lost so much sanity he did the weasel laugh.
I respect the 5 players and 3 streamers still playing this game.
It's funny that you got two demon hunters as your final boss (bad matchup) and the good matchup as your 3rd because that's literally what happened to me too (my bad matchup was hunter though). I needed 4 days with loaner warlock and plague dk to get to diamond 5 and camped there. This month, I took plagues and then zilliax rogue to legend
NOOOO RARRAN YOU HAVE TO SAY YOU GOT LEGEND IN THE TITLE
Wanna start off by saying Thanks Rarran for getting me back into ranked HS. Been a BG enjoyer for years now like our boy Kripp. I started playing with the DK plague deck 4 days ago having zero games played as DK and after 64 games I'm Plat 2 'n change. Granted I have the meta version and I've barely lost matches. Deck destro locl can die in a fire 😂
You can reach legend if you're a dedicated masochist who also just so happens to be pretty good. Definitely not something for the average player to attempt.
Not played Heartstone for years but that was EPIC!!!
The amount of stress you went through
Deck list pls
I got back to hearthstone after 4 years and got legend with the warrior loaner deck. I would say the G4-P10 and D4-Legend were the hardest games to play.
Man a video with this length really Packs a punch (:
Congratulations!
HOWEVER: This is well and good, but Hearthstone is anything but free to play friendly. Aside from essentially being limited to one deck, just wait and see what happens when you try and maintain this. You only get loner decks after being inactive for over 90 days. If you are a consistent player, come next season when new cards and sets come out, you may very well be completely fucked. Look at how much gold Rarran had at the end of this. 1275. So what is that, 12 packs. If you watched the full vods of these (which I honestly skimmed through quite a lot), he expressed interest in buying a mini-set, as that did not violate the challenge. He never got enough gold to afford one.... Despite all the packs he did get, eventually it would run thin. I would argue that, after one season (maybe two if not much changes), if you wanted to maintain legendary status, you'll have to spend money. This is exactly how these games get you. They allow you to get far ONCE. After that, give them money or go fuck yourself.
Amazing! I’m surprised you didn’t play sludgelock considering warlock is your favorite class. Congratulations rarran
Illidan of the golden order went sooooooooooooo hard @20:06
"ive been doing this for 10 hours chat, and im eating my ass" -Rarran 2024
Great video Rarran
Can you please share the crafted death knight plague deck you used in your diamond climb
Sometimes im a bit concerned about Rarrans mental health. Like seriously. I remember him almost melting down during the "How good are [expansion x] Legendarys"-series and this also took a huge toll on him. Yeah these videos get clicks and likes and some even like seeing him suffer, but Im not conviced that this is good for him in the longrun Oo
The F in FTP comes from Frustrating
You inspired me to return to hearthstone since leaving around 2020, I ended up getting legend with the starter deathknight in 6 days.
Last warrior was a payed actor..
paid* :P
I thought they were avoiding titan refresh (assuming DK can kill the enemy unit)