I decided to have fun with a secret mage player in wild ranked. So i put in every single anti secret card + heals. Only took 38 auto concedes to find a secret mage.
I decided to have fun with a secret mage player in wild ranked. So i put in every single anti secret card + heals. Only took 38 auto concedes to find a secret mage.
I thought secret mage was the blight upon wild that nobody could escape from. You saw one out of 39 games?
Working as intended. The matchmaking algorithm looks at what cards you have in your deck and wont pair you against what you teched for.
The system is designed to keep you at 50% winrate, so you probably wont see any secret mages if you have anti secret tech cards in your deck.
Actually that seems to be correct. For example I have recently created a control Warlock list and somehow in around 20 games I played with it I have only faced other slow decks. Magically the very moment I decided to have some fun with OTK Demon Hunter, I started getting matched against the fastest decks possible. The logic here is that when you play a slow deck you should be matched against another slow deck and the same goes for aggro or generally faster lists. For some reason the algorithm always breaks with unconventional OTK or combos and misinterprets them.
Working as intended. The matchmaking algorithm looks at what cards you have in your deck and wont pair you against what you teched for.
The system is designed to keep you at 50% winrate, so you probably wont see any secret mages if you have anti secret tech cards in your deck.
But if the system is designed to keep everyone at a 50% winrate... Shouldn't OP be paired with Secret Mages 50% of the time? And shouldn't the algorithm be pairing rampant Secret Mages with OP in order to keep their winrates at 50% too? 🤔🤔🤔
OP has a winrate of 3%. If the matchmaking algorithm is trying to keep their winrate at 50%, it's doing a pretty shitty job. That, or the whole "mAtcHmaKinG iS rigGeD" schtick is nonsense.
Working as intended. The matchmaking algorithm looks at what cards you have in your deck and wont pair you against what you teched for.
The system is designed to keep you at 50% winrate, so you probably wont see any secret mages if you have anti secret tech cards in your deck.
But if the system is designed to keep everyone at a 50% winrate... Shouldn't OP be paired with Secret Mages 50% of the time? And shouldn't the algorithm be pairing rampant Secret Mages with OP in order to keep their winrates at 50% too? 🤔🤔🤔
OP has a winrate of 3%. If the matchmaking algorithm is trying to keep their winrate at 50%, it's doing a pretty shitty job. That, or the whole "mAtcHmaKinG iS rigGeD" schtick is nonsense.
Was curious, so tested how long it took me today to find another secret mage. Took me about 35+ games, and then in round 4 i lost my internet connection and could not reconnect. Guess that proves one thing i already knew. I am a pretty unlucky son of a beach :D
Working as intended. The matchmaking algorithm looks at what cards you have in your deck and wont pair you against what you teched for.
The system is designed to keep you at 50% winrate, so you probably wont see any secret mages if you have anti secret tech cards in your deck.
But if the system is designed to keep everyone at a 50% winrate... Shouldn't OP be paired with Secret Mages 50% of the time? And shouldn't the algorithm be pairing rampant Secret Mages with OP in order to keep their winrates at 50% too? 🤔🤔🤔
OP has a winrate of 3%. If the matchmaking algorithm is trying to keep their winrate at 50%, it's doing a pretty shitty job. That, or the whole "mAtcHmaKinG iS rigGeD" schtick is nonsense.
Well, OP's winrate is 3 % because, as he said, he auto-conceded until meeting a Secret Mage. He didn't play the other matches, and therefore he only has losses. So your argument doesn't make any sense.
Yes wild secret mage is a good deck and is played a lot in wild but,
if u never reached like legend or high dia in wild your MMR is low enough that u face a lot of player who arnt aware that secret mage is good or just play their fun decks.
its sad that Blizz actually doenst show us our MMR. your bronze or silver lvl doenst mean anything. u more or less face players with a MMR just like u or close. meaning if i hit legend last seaon in wild my bronze oponents are much better player then your dia opponents, if u havt got into legend or close
Working as intended. The matchmaking algorithm looks at what cards you have in your deck and wont pair you against what you teched for.
The system is designed to keep you at 50% winrate, so you probably wont see any secret mages if you have anti secret tech cards in your deck.
But if the system is designed to keep everyone at a 50% winrate... Shouldn't OP be paired with Secret Mages 50% of the time? And shouldn't the algorithm be pairing rampant Secret Mages with OP in order to keep their winrates at 50% too? 🤔🤔🤔
OP has a winrate of 3%. If the matchmaking algorithm is trying to keep their winrate at 50%, it's doing a pretty shitty job. That, or the whole "mAtcHmaKinG iS rigGeD" schtick is nonsense.
it's almost like the whole "There's a conspiracy against players that the system is trying to matchmake you to make sure you only get 50% win rate" is absolute baloney... Hmmm..... but surely that can't be right. All my anecdotal evidence of the last 10 games where I randomly got bad matchups proves otherwise...
Pop quiz! Which is the more plausible explanation:
There's this secret conspiracy in Blizzard to force everyone to win 50.0% of the time, all the time, in the competitive game they made, all the while rigging tournaments so it looks like skilled players are able to reach the top consistently, because... reasons.
A few people got unlucky and/or are suffering from confirmation or other sampling bias. (You never hear people complain that they teched against secret mage and then actually played against secret mage, and it's not because those people don't exist.)
Simple explanation. Once you conceded a bunch of times and tanked your mmr completely (which might have not been very high to begin with), you started queueing into people who actually want to have fun, and not win at any cost.
Pop quiz! Which is the more plausible explanation:
There's this secret conspiracy in Blizzard to force everyone to win 50.0% of the time, all the time, in the competitive game they made, all the while rigging tournaments so it looks like skilled players are able to reach the top consistently, because... reasons.
A few people got unlucky and/or are suffering from confirmation or other sampling bias. (You never hear people complain that they teched against secret mage and then actually played against secret mage, and it's not because those people don't exist.)
I was going to post something really sarcastic and humorous about how it's not a secret conspiracy, because everyone knows it's a real thing...
As I'm typing it, I thought... wait a minute... someone is going to think I'm serious. These people are legitimately all over the place.
Maybe, juuust maybe, secret mage is only played at a few different ranks and isn’t as terrible as everyone makes it seem to be. It sucks to play against, yes, but it’s a boring deck which keeps it in check, in a weird way.
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I decided to have fun with a secret mage player in wild ranked. So i put in every single anti secret card + heals. Only took 38 auto concedes to find a secret mage.
I thought secret mage was the blight upon wild that nobody could escape from. You saw one out of 39 games?
What rank is that?
Diamond Rank 10
Working as intended. The matchmaking algorithm looks at what cards you have in your deck and wont pair you against what you teched for.
The system is designed to keep you at 50% winrate, so you probably wont see any secret mages if you have anti secret tech cards in your deck.
Well i did met one, so i guess that ruins your theory
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It's that 0.1% you still get. Every product has a tiny failure rate so they don't get sued.
Actually that seems to be correct. For example I have recently created a control Warlock list and somehow in around 20 games I played with it I have only faced other slow decks. Magically the very moment I decided to have some fun with OTK Demon Hunter, I started getting matched against the fastest decks possible. The logic here is that when you play a slow deck you should be matched against another slow deck and the same goes for aggro or generally faster lists. For some reason the algorithm always breaks with unconventional OTK or combos and misinterprets them.
But if the system is designed to keep everyone at a 50% winrate... Shouldn't OP be paired with Secret Mages 50% of the time? And shouldn't the algorithm be pairing rampant Secret Mages with OP in order to keep their winrates at 50% too? 🤔🤔🤔
OP has a winrate of 3%. If the matchmaking algorithm is trying to keep their winrate at 50%, it's doing a pretty shitty job. That, or the whole "mAtcHmaKinG iS rigGeD" schtick is nonsense.
Was curious, so tested how long it took me today to find another secret mage. Took me about 35+ games, and then in round 4 i lost my internet connection and could not reconnect. Guess that proves one thing i already knew. I am a pretty unlucky son of a beach :D
Well, OP's winrate is 3 % because, as he said, he auto-conceded until meeting a Secret Mage. He didn't play the other matches, and therefore he only has losses. So your argument doesn't make any sense.
Its bullshit. Im on D5 and i have 27% of my games against secret mages. In total its 30% but 3% played Quest or OTK.
Also you claim to have seen 2 in 69 games. Its means with the percentage you have in your stats you met 14 mages, that werent secret mages.
I didnt meet 14 mages, that werent secret in maybe 2 months combined lol. I guess as your title says, there is really nothing to see here
to clear the misconception up,
Yes wild secret mage is a good deck and is played a lot in wild but,
if u never reached like legend or high dia in wild your MMR is low enough that u face a lot of player who arnt aware that secret mage is good or just play their fun decks.
its sad that Blizz actually doenst show us our MMR. your bronze or silver lvl doenst mean anything. u more or less face players with a MMR just like u or close. meaning if i hit legend last seaon in wild my bronze oponents are much better player then your dia opponents, if u havt got into legend or close
it's almost like the whole "There's a conspiracy against players that the system is trying to matchmake you to make sure you only get 50% win rate" is absolute baloney...
Hmmm..... but surely that can't be right. All my anecdotal evidence of the last 10 games where I randomly got bad matchups proves otherwise...
I met a ton of mages as you can see. But they were highlander, otk, quest, elemental or odd mages.
I have said this forever, if you put secret hate in your deck, you won't see Secret mages.
Pop quiz! Which is the more plausible explanation:
Simple explanation. Once you conceded a bunch of times and tanked your mmr completely (which might have not been very high to begin with), you started queueing into people who actually want to have fun, and not win at any cost.
I was going to post something really sarcastic and humorous about how it's not a secret conspiracy, because everyone knows it's a real thing...
As I'm typing it, I thought... wait a minute... someone is going to think I'm serious. These people are legitimately all over the place.
Maybe, juuust maybe, secret mage is only played at a few different ranks and isn’t as terrible as everyone makes it seem to be. It sucks to play against, yes, but it’s a boring deck which keeps it in check, in a weird way.