I usually run from Sunday morning through Wednesday morning on NA ladder.

An other mistake : he don't use his hero power to create totem before evolve , or play minions after

I use the bot every day until I arrive at the 100 gold daily + quest

Rank 5 Now.

Currently in rank 8 with the Warlock 1.1, was one or two games away from rank 6, then lost 6-7 games in a row with the bot.
Is there any better decks to hit rank 5 with than Warlock 1.1 or 2.0?
If not, I will just climb the last few ranks with penguin druid.

Which deck?

Still bouncing between 10 and 8 in NA, but hey I got the golden portrait, so that's nice!

After running Zoolock 2.0 daily for 13 days I still can't break rank 5. Highest has been 6/no stars.

Guldan is discarded too often, I think. It seems to make really risky choices with discards, or Life Tap every turn when there's a lead in HP, which eventually puts me at a disadvantage. It seems great when the bot's making the choices as the trades make sense and it lands a solid bit of damage, but then there's no followup when my board gets thinned or cleared and I'm top-decking hoping for a miracle.

I'm switching back to botwhat's Zoolock 1.1 with the tech edits that got me 5 last month (-2 Archerus Veteran for +2 Tar Creeper and -1 Bloodsail Corsair for +1 Abyssal Enforcer) to see if that works. If it does maybe I can see why.

This is the best deck for HR at the moment. I left the bot playing after hitting rank 5 and it reached rank 3 this morning. Best botting time is from 2am to 11am in my opinion.

Wow, it didn't help at all. Left it running overnight only to see it at 10 in the morning.

Reverting changes.

As other's have already mentioned it has been a difficult climb for me as well. I believe this is due to the casual player base dropping out which leaves only the hardcore/dedicated players saturating the ladder thus increasing the competition. This always happens towards the last month of the expansion and right before the new expansion hits.

I was stuck at 10 for the past week (highest I got was R6 2 stars) until I saw that the bot hit R5 this morning. I honestly believe it has more to do with getting lucky with win streaks than anything else. However, I did make changes of my own:

1) I tweaked the decklist to make it much more aggressive (being able to close out games as fast as turn 6) by adding x2 Acherus Veteran's, 2x Bloodfury Potion's and 2x Crystalweaver's. I cut the Bloodsail Corsairs, Tar Creepers and Abyssal Enforcer mainly because they just aren't that great with the current meta flavor. By that I mean there's a huge amount of Big Druid's on ladder and stats wise Druid has been my worst matchup. The plan is to hit hard and fast as early as possible before they play Spreading Plague, and Corsairs and Creepers dont fit into that plan. Also Enforcer is really slow I haven't seen a lot of Shamans so it made sense to take it out.

2) I tried Scott's config but then I realized it was written to mulligan hard for Keleseth. I went back to using BotWhat's 1.1 Zoo config but tweaked the mulligan config so that it keeps all 1 drops and keleseth against all classes. My winrate went from 38~42% to 49~51%. Please do not misunderstand me as I am in no way discrediting Scott nor his work. The numerous results that people have gotten from his config is a testament to the fact that it works. I just happen to experiment on my own so don't get me wrong =).

I will upload a screenshot and the mulligan config that got me to 5 later tonight (at work right now).