When did you pull your first Legendary? How long did it take?
How many people here got at least one by Level 8 Arena 7?
I'm just trying to figure out how unlucky I've been. I've opened 100s of Chests, including a few Magical and one Super Magical.
I'm so sick of feeling like most of my opponents have a distinct advantage.
Since one more loss throws me back to Arena 6 I'm not playing Ranked atm. Waiting for the Clan Chest and collecting free chests. Fortunately the Tournament allows me to contribute crowns to my Crown and Clan chests. The downside is no victory chests to unlock but those are usually shit anyway.
Legendary cards are nice, but they're not the be all, end all. Ironically, the best legendary in my opinion is also the least flashy, the log.
A lot of people here have been playing for about a year, so their answers won't really reflect the current state of the game. For example, when I got to legendary arena the first time, it was actually arena 8.
If you want a legendary, there's really only two ways to get one, patience or money. You can spend money on supermagical chests in the hopes of getting one, or just keep playing and eventually getting lucky. I'd recommend the second option.
The below link has the drop rates for legendaries by chest and by arena:
http://clashroyalearena.com/guides/card-drop-rates
I have 9 out of the current 11 legenadaries, and I have 2 of them at lvl 3 and the other 7 at lvl 2. I've only spent $20 on the game, buying the two offers that come with 100k gold (those are the only offers I'd recommend buying).
The best strategy I can recommend is figure out what card is your favorite win condition (hog, giant, etc..) and build a deck around that card. Use all of your requests on whatever card is the core of your deck and focus on leveling it. The most annoying thing about this game is that once you choose a deck, the game actively punishes you if you want to change. At arena 7 its not so tough to change, but at arena 11, it's a lot harder because it takes so much gold and cards to upgrade.
Only spend gold on cards you are 100% sure you want to upgrade. Don't ever upgrade for the sake of upgrading. All cards that I never use are lvl 1 or 2 and I currently have about 56 cards I'm able to upgrade.
My last bit of advice is donate every single card you can, apart from the cards you use in your deck. The gold and experience you get from this is extremely useful.