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Per the title, just picked it up during the winter sale because by all accounts most of the bugs have been quashed and the game is in a far better state than launch.

Beyond having patience and perseverance, what other helpful beginner tips would you give a new player?

I'm sitting at 5087 MMR at Rank 14 currently (my horrible run with Scoia'tel has a lot to do with that).

I've played 5 games this morning, all as NR, won 3 out of 5 with the 3 being all in a row, and yet my MMR has not gone up or down at all. It's just stuck. I haven't completed all my placements yet. I still have 32 games with NR before they are all done.

So what gives? Is my MMR just too high for the rank I'm at and I'm frozen until I move up again or what?

Or they are, hands down, the worst faction right now.

I'm trying to finish my matches for the season and I'm doing reasonably well at the moment. Top 200 NA, a first for me, and though I doubt it will hold, I'm stoked, winning a little over half my matches.

Now it's time for Scoia'tel placements. I've won 3 games out of 20 with them and one of those wins came using a scummy Sihil deck. I've been trying to wrap my head around Movement Elves. I understand it for the most part but I'm getting hard countered in seemingly every match (Avallac'h -> Cahir), I'm over committing in R1 (a fault of mine, to be sure), or I just can't set up Schirrú well enough. I've tried Handbuff Dwarves, same re