Dude, it's the start of the expansion, the meta is changing from day to day, it's nealy impossible to make decks that will climb for sure, there has been 3-4 updates on the bot since the release of the expansions. The bot will easily get you to rank 5 once the meta has settled.
And maybe you should make your own decks instead of netdecking and try to post some decks to see what works this expansion..

Ofc there are many missplays in the beginning of a new expansion since there are 130+ new cards, it takes time.
The bot will easily get you 80%+ winrate on casual, if you just want to grind gold.
There are 2 deck builders on this forum, which sure isn't that many, but most of the user who use the bot, are people who don't have the time to invest in gaming and grinding the gold, so how should we be able to build decks and post it on forums? Personally I work 12 hours almost everyday, when I am not working I am with my family and are only able to play 1 hour maybe 2 hours computer everyday, so I don't have the time to try new decks with the bot and test what works, and what doesn't, if I had the time however, I would love to.

It's been a couple of weeks and things have settled a bit more. I've also had a lot of time to run a few decks for a sense of what the bot can work with decently before customization. I'd recommend looking at the following decks for custom plays.

Dragon Priest - Compared to the other priest decks it's fairly aggro which the bot likes. While it's the least effective meta deck in this list, it's the third best in my own bot testing. 50% winrate after 35 games.


Pirate Warrior - Thanks to some new cards this guy is back in the pack and was my strongest performer with a 50% winrate after 123 games.


Secret Mage - Second best, hitting my 50% winrate cap after 67 games.


Demon Warlock - Take zoo and hyper-focus it. I haven't tested this one yet since it's still a zoo and likely to perform well. It's just a more demony zoo.


Lastly is Secret Hunter - Spell Hunter failed now that more decks are being made. Secret Hunter takes its place, but it's not performing that great compared to these other decks. Probably the worst performer at 50% at 12 games, but maybe a good custom set can pull it out.


Xposting this to botwhat's thread as well.

Thanks Scott ! Testing right now !

Hey guys,
Just wondering how long you guys would run the bot at any one time?

I've been doing 40-50 games at any one time no more than once every 1-2 days. Obviously haven't been banned yet, just wanting to not overdo it.

About to start testing agropally now (1-0, 100% win rate so far @ r15 :O )

Will be running your Zoolock for the next 12-14 hours and post result, will use the exact list as well.
Will not be watching missplays, since I will be sleeping and at work.



Almost 24/7, at least right now in the beginning of the expansion to test the new decks.
When the meta has settled and I have found a deck that will get me to rank 5, I will just run it 8-10 hours everyday to I hit rank 5, and then just farm casual gold each day for 3-4 hours or how long it takes to get the 100g.

still stuck at R10

Hit rank 10 with the zoo, not sure if it can climb higher though, will run it for a few more hours. :)

EDIT: The bot will sometimes freeze the face on the opponent with the 2/1 even if he got a 5/5 creeper on the board, I will try to switch the 2/1 out with the 7 mana 6/6 deal 3 dmg to all.
Starting rank 10 - 0 stars, will run for 10 hours or so.

I just posted an update to Zoo that has a json for Glacial Shard; it gives a negative bonus if it is targeting a hero without a weapon equipped. If you still have the games in your log, can you run the debug with the new files and see if the bot still misplays? If that is too much work, can you send me the log of the misplay so I can test it?