I think it is just the amount of favor points you gather. I cannot really back that up though. My rank went to 1000ish after just 16 or so games. After that I would not know what other stuff gets into your rank. I think this xp is just favor points.

Then again the rank would be a function of the number of games played if that were true, and I think it is not quite that simple...

I don't know, good question!

basically its FUBAR, and the quicker you stop caring about ladder rank and experience, the quicker you will start enjoying the game.


theoretically, you get more exp when you beat higher exp players, and you lose more exp when you lose to lower exp players than you.

however at the moment it seems to be 10 per win and 100 per loss ish so the only way to go high is basically to never lose.

p.s. ladder rank and experience points have NOTHING to do with favor points.

lolwhat

10 wins + 1 loss to break even.

which yeah is kinda what it takes to go up in rank.

maybe 10 per win and 50 per loss is more realistic though, so 5 wins + 1 loss = break even

edit: hence why it is busted

Yeah, I don't like the fact that my experience level, and thus my ranking, drops every time I play regardless of whether or not I get a win because I don't have 10 times as many kills as deaths.

I got +1 for winning one pantheon game and then -80 for losing one.

ROFL

Thanks for all the replys.  Maybe I'll just hope that when they introduce clans and team ranking that will do some serious work on have ranks that actually mean something.....anybody think that clan support is coming anytime soon?

reward yourself for winning in your own special way.