I've just completed the 1st Rental Stint of my latest experiment Renting for Modern Ranked and so that puts me at the Half Way mark of the experiment. So far the results have been a little bit disappointing but I can put some of that disappointment down to the fact that I'm adjusting to a new playing deck and many of my "Old Favourites" just aren't there for me to lean on when the Battle Clock is running out and I'm fumbling around to find a suitable lineup.
Firstly I was hoping (and expecting) that I would be able to get comfortably into the Gold Tiers on my 1st rental stint but I wasn't able to. I fell 1 game short a few times and hit a bit of a quagmire at the top of Silver Tier 1 with my 100% Chaos Legion rentals. That was a little bit surprising for me, but the competition around those ranks is fairly strong. I had a lot of wins early when I was powering up through the lower Bronze and Silver ranks but my Win Rate evened out to more like 50/50 for the last 20 or 30 games.
So far I've played about 98 battles and from those games I have earned 113.731 SPS and 5422 Glint - which I can double since I will get that much Glint again for the End of Season Rewards. With the new Glint Shop that's about 2 x Epic cards. My Glint Boost has dropped to x16.71 and I'm earning 130 Glint per win at my current level (x2 for EoS rewards) plus about 3 to 3.5 SPS per win.
Next up I am having a couple of days off so that my Energy can recharge and I'll kick off my 2nd rental stint in just over 48 hours to see if I can improve on that 1st rental stint before I wrap up the experiment. I am cautiously confident that my SPS and Glint rewards will be higher the 2nd time around, but after seeing how tough the competition is I am not confident of getting past the Gold Tiers. That might not be a big deal if the rewards are decent. We will see!
