I started playing in late August and i checked your account and there are some things that I believe you aren't doing right.
First, the rewards in bronze aren't worth it. Maybe you were 8th on the leaderboard, but you dropped to 16th place after writing your post. That would give you 2000DEC at the end of season.
Second, you rent way too much. You are renting 332 DEC daily according to peakmonsters.
To make a comparison, I'm renting for 169 DEC daily, but I also put my own cards on the market for rent and they are giving me back 218 DEC. Which means that, even if I dont play, I'm still doing about 50 DEC daily. Considering there are 15 days in a season, that is 750 DEC.
But, on top of that, I get about 15 DEC per win. I'm lazy and don't have much time to play but if you consider that I'm winning half of those (actually it's more 55%) and you can play 25 games/day without affecting your ECR, then it's 13*15= 195 DEC daily. We're now hanging at 245DEC profit daily.
Finally, I get 4 chests everyday in Silver 1. Each chest has an average value of 60 DEC according to splintercards.com... So that's 485 DEC daily in silver 1 without even pushing.
Someone can get out of bronze only renting kelp initiate and venari wavesmith for less than 4 DEC per day.
Guys in Champion league are getting as much as 600 DEC per win but of course you have to invest more.
I agree that for new players, there is a lack of information and I'm trying to cover that doing guides here on splintertalk, but devs should put that information up too.
My advice would be to forget the leaderboard because people are renting like crazy and most of the time it's not profitable. I crossed paths with players renting over 900 DEC to be in silver. That just doesn't make sense.
Thanks for the feedback! :D
That's extremely helpful info. I plan on trying to move up to silver after this season.
Could you explain a bit more on how you can move out of bronze by only renting Venari wavesmith + kelp initiate? Because you're right I am spending around 330 per day on renting some legendaries, but unfortunately I still don't have enough power to move up to silver =/
Appreciate it man!
Cheers.