So this is has definitely become an issue since the launch of the new reward system. Odd Warrior, the reason they pick the warrior class is because it’s the class that will last the longest due to accumulative armor. Obviously this is cheating.
While there are some that will argue that botting is completely justified, it’s not, it is cheating and it negatively impacts the integrity of the game and the experience of players who legitimately play the game as designed.
Here’s the link’s to each botter that I have come across since this post was created.
https://hsreplay.net/replay/68JvcTsSXNeq3AGSez2Cjk
https://hsreplay.net/replay/4DFwpcYaSUqrggim7DV4Nf
https://hsreplay.net/replay/rMsFPkuak8nfGybqNjugcL
https://hsreplay.net/replay/4XDet3tfQ2Skegz5o9KPrZ
https://hsreplay.net/replay/wtAYWhwQFsRVkAhQW98zDo
https://hsreplay.net/replay/Tee9FXGLzoMuJKXui4owQQ
https://hsreplay.net/replay/SjQ2AxzJhqQ4zUaVPX9gqf
https://hsreplay.net/replay/FPf6M6htxBCckjEVe6C8sh 45 mins long - 03-30
https://hsreplay.net/replay/B9r23zUZkmwYzN26pBaYsL 05-26
https://hsreplay.net/replay/ujhemMxydqng5XEsX3i2Fa 05/27
(the latest one I added, the bot played 1 card, and used hero power for the rest)
https://hsreplay.net/replay/W8LEZYuStNeHfi2mxFnQQb 05/27
https://hsreplay.net/replay/hUFjzHBgmcJThRubkTnQnA 06/16
United in Stormwind
https://hsreplay.net/replay/XJjFv5TDgnh8QjtJhXw8jB Aug 5th in Standard
https://hsreplay.net/replay/Htz3Qk6YwrjPRDxYD6Yc5L Aug 12th Standard
Standard July 30th 2022
https://hsreplay.net/replay/2mQgqCNzcFsNB6VcpLhWtJ
https://hsreplay.net/replay/MR9af7wA5HPGJvJHdfho2n
https://hsreplay.net/replay/KKfmJducvAwTD7VeLfoTdv
So it seems that whatever bot program is being used to do this, they can adjust the repose time for their round.
https://hsreplay.net/replay/aE3W28bBzc4cbDN7hHmycZ
This bot program can also put cards on the board. This link is of a player using this program on a DH. Every single minion they played was a Taunt. The total match time was 32 min and 8 seconds.
There was also a pattern in how the cards were being touched. The pattern would go, touches the card twice from the right to all the way to left, however, the left most card would be touched once and then a pause, then hero power would be touched.
https://hsreplay.net/replay/ifWm5KhmV8dwtgTv3RXuEC
It would be nice if Blizzard were to implement an ingame reporting system.
The match was about 15 minutes. My total time was just under 5, while Sakuse25 was over 10 mins and did not play a single minion.
May 10th
It seems that botting is more of an issue in Wild than in standard. After playing standard since the expansion, I’ve started to play wild again and I forgot how annoying it is to run into cheaters that abuse the system diminishing the experience of others. I am going to continue to update this post as I come across these players that bot.
