r/hearthstone•
BoxWI

Classic Ranked swarmed by bots

Classic

There are a lot of warlock zoo and face hunter bots on the classic ranked ladder.

They can be spotted by their behavior of similar time between actions taken, as well as repetitive cursor hovering behavior. They will also take odd lines that otherwise don't naturally flow like human play, such as playing minions or attacking in a strange order.

I'd estimate about one of every three-four matches I play is vs a bot.

I'd like anyone else to please report this or other botting activity to [email protected] so that it can get Blizzard's attention.

Posted Sep 4, 2021, 4:50 PM UTC

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Bandos_Bear•

Blizzard doesn’t care about bots

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BoxWIOP•

Just played against an aggro shadow Priest bot in legend rank. If enough people cared then Blizzard would care. Shouldn't be condoned.

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oxecutionar•

im playing against a bot right now, looked up if botting was an issue. He keeps hovering at the 2nd to right card and his hero power. always going to rope with zero mana too. happened yesterday too against a druid.

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Bots drive up engagement metrics.

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Im constantly facing bots climbing the wild ranked ladder. Actually I’m fighting a rope-hunter bot tight now. I would even go further and say about 50% of my opponents are bots, got endless HSdecktracker replays of bots overdrawing themselves every turn. Hunters, warriors, priests, druids, everything. Some, primitive and some pretty sophisticated. We could keep reporting to no avail but at the end of the day, Blizzard probably does enjoy the engagement metrics.

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Metalhead2317218•

If you encounter a lot of zoo/hunter bots then just go play ramp druid, insta win.

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