In Diablo Immortal, inactive clans are currently causing frustration among players. They reach the top 10 of the PvP tournament “Shadow Wars” and perform better than teams that actually play matches and compete against other clans.
What are the Shadow Wars?
- In Blizzard’s action RPG, there are two factions called “the Shadows” and “the Immortals”.
- Both factions serve as competing parties in PvP and compete against each other in the Ritual of Banishment.
- The Shadow Wars are weekly PvP tournaments in Diablo Immortal. The top 10 teams of the Shadow Wars qualify for the Ritual of the Banished.
After the Shadow War, 8 players from the 10 best Shadow clans must compete in the Ritual of Banishment against teams of the Immortals and win at least 6 of the battles.
If the Shadows are successful, they can challenge the leader of the Immortals. If they defeat the leader, a Battle Royale begins, and the winners become the new Immortals.
What is the problem with inactive clans? There are repeated reports from players on reddit about inactive clans in the Shadow Wars. These inactive clans are not an insignificant annoyance, as they reach the top 10 of the Shadow Wars without playing.
This means that Shadow teams that are not playing at all compete against the Immortals. This makes it even easier for the Immortals, as noted by reddit user Sir_Gut (via reddit).
Inactive clans face off in the tournament bracket
How is it possible for inactive clans to succeed? The matches of the Shadow Wars are divided into different brackets, meaning individual branches of the tournament tree. Apparently, inactive clans are also considered in the formation of the individual brackets, and when they meet in the playoffs, an inactive clan inevitably advances to the next round.
User Timely_Country353 shows a screenshot of a bracket on reddit that exemplifies such a scenario:
What does the screenshot show? Timely_Country353 states that all three clans in the shown bracket are inactive and that the fourth place in the tournament branch is unoccupied. This results in an inactive clan automatically advancing to the next round.
In the second match, an inactive clan competes against another. This also guarantees the advancement of an inactive clan. The two “victorious” inactive clans then advance to the final round and determine the winner of the bracket.
Subsequently, Timely_Country353 shows with another screenshot that the two inactive clans that reached the final of the bracket are listed in the weekly top 10 of the shadow clans, allowing their players to compete against the Immortals in the Ritual of Banishment.
Why do active players have it hard? There are of course not only inactive clans in Diablo Immortal, even if they are in the top 10 because they “played” against other inactive clans.
There are also clans with active players who had to compete against active clans and lost those matches. Those teams are consequently not in the top 10 because they lost against active players, while the inactive clans seal their advancement against each other.
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