I don’t know because I play casual sometimes, and I don’t see players playing basic decks. It’s still mostly meta decks (maybe incomplete) with some more homebrew.
Yeah, my opponents are running decks that have Chilwind Yeti in it.
I think they are casual players and should not appear in Diamond 10-5.
Nah that’s just diamond 10 to 6 being morbidly easy after a point in the month; it’s mainly because of the star bonuses and the winning streaks; most players barely need more than 40% win rate to go to D5.
Both star bonuses and the bottoms of ranks should not exist; the bottoms are massive by the way; that’s because even if you lose a lot: a single winning streak that is long enough is enough to jump rank.
The practical scenario is that D5 to 1 has a ton of people locked in it; another oddity is that Legend players often have it easy and jump rank to …Legend again; the whole thing should be only an MMR.
Filthy casuals in my diamond ranks? preposterous!
They are running so many basic cards, meaning Blizzard intentionally paired them into Diamond ranking matches. I don’t know why. But those decks cannot survive in the Bronze league.
These are the bots people have been posting about. You are playing against bots.
1 Like
Bots are people too! (or is it corporation, i don’t know anymore)
Not sure how to respond because I’m not following the logic. ‘External bots’ (e.g. the gold farmers/acct preloaders that people are talking about) are actual fake users and something that would have to get reported e.g. at a shareholder meeting. ‘Internal bots’ wouldn’t be on their own accounts and would only be there to ‘smooth out the ladder experience’. It would be like them confusing pve bosses in solo adventures with real users (and there’s no reason to do that unless someone wanted to blame falling numbers on people finding out/getting mad about the bots).
Yes.
But there is no internal bots. I’m not sure if there ever was any, at least in Standard ladder, but if there was, there isn’t anymore as everyone started complaining about bots ruining their experience.
I’m not sure which part you don’t understand, it seems to me you understood everything perfectly
They were inserted into standard ladder and later removed.
I suspect they were removed to aid them in using scripts to track bot accounts through play patterns.
1 Like
I have been running into this aswell at d5. I was presuming it might be a twist deck, but they forgot to change modes with how frequently it has happened. It does not appear to be bots, because for me they will actually concede. (usually way later than it is known that I will win, but always when I have lethal damage on board.)
The way these bots typically concede is to play out the entirety of their last turn (when you can kill them with minions and they can’t eliminate/recover enough to survive) then quit at the very start of your last turn.
The bot calculation for ‘hopeless’ only looks at your minions on board though (and not your hero power or held weapon).
1 Like
I am still seeing bots at Diamond 4. Now I wish to see them all the way to D1
1 Like
That’s a bot heh, they always concede that way.
1 Like
Oh ok. It is kind of hard to tell the difference with how they play then?
It’s easy for me to spot as I play/stuck in d5 to legend and have played against them so often. The most annoying one is the mech rogue bot!
need those free wins yes
But I still think that’s a coding error.
There is no way that Blizzard doesn’t know they are bots.
These bots are too obvious
I have never seen a bot concede, ever.
But oh well, times change, ig