My suspicion at this point is that blizzard themselves run the bot companies. Players largely didn’t want much of a cash shop/micro transactions for classic, but token sales are big money for retail… TLDR instead of an official cash shop, blizzard just runs an unofficial one.
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It’s not any better for PvE (farming). even a quarter to 2am I couldn’t get any saronite in… Sholozar Basin. You know the place with the enhanced spawn ? yeah full of bots. A guildie was in another zone and couldn’t get any as well.
Tried the place at 2pm, 10am, 8pm (this was worse as a lot of ppl was farming on top of the usual bots). It’s disgusting. It’s never going to get fixed, but it’s still annoying and sends the wrong message… Which I feel more and more ppl are capitalizing on.
Remember blizz servers has been closed in China, they lose MILLIONS of subs, wich means MILLIONS of dollars, so they allow bots here cuz 15$ for each one is better than nothing, btw maybe they have a deal with that people who sells gold, you need to learn to live here with that.
I am currently leveling a level 60 Hunter this weekend in WSG, so you can imagine how many fresh DKs with 870 gearscore I’m seeing in all of my matches. One match was legit 16/20 DKs. Throughout the day, I discovered Feign Death actually works on them though and they immediately stop attacking you. So I learned how to screw with the bots’ AI by FDing in mid and sending my pet after them. My pet keeps several bots occupied while my team runs flags. Won almost all of my games after that, but it’s very sad to see what’s become of the game these days and how Blizz just lets it happen.
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The botting is so bad I’d be fine with a couple changes:
- DKs now start at level one only (99 percent of real people who want to play a DK already made one)
- Anyone reported as a bot in more than one BG can’t play Bgs for 24 hours
- Human moderators like pservers have
These are just random ideas I’m not sure exactly what to do but BGs were fun just last month and now they are completely horrible. I’m about to unsubscribe because BGs are the only reason I play and winning or losing with 80+ percent bots is just dumb. A month ago there were no bots besides AV really…
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I though last bg weekend’s EoTS was bad, but Warsong weekend here is even worse. Bots seem to all play on the bg weekends for the extra experience, not so much during the week days. At worst, I still had like two other non bots on my team in EoTS with 13 DK bots, but I’m in a Warsong right now where I am literally the only non bot on my team.
On the flip side, I have capped 3 flags several times and I am not usually the flag carrying type. It is just so easy running around the bots and capping for the win.
I’m in favor of previous suggestions to curb botting. I like one idea which mentioned Wowhead posting an article on “how to bot”. Bliz would fix the problem overnight if that happened lol.
I would actually love to be able to play the class from level 1. That would be a nice change, and maybe remove the limit of one per server once this kicks in. The only thing we’d need are the ability to get that awesome level 55-60 armor set relatively quickly around level 60, or let us buy it for gold in the DK headquarters (even better IMHO).
What a splendid idea ! I approve.
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This thread is epic. Thanks.
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nice lie, bobby. Why are there so many 58 DK’s?
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Hmmm good question. Probably the same reason why so many people within this thread have a difficult time with verb aspects and tenses. For example your broken English makes me assume you are an Asian English speaker or a guy living in a trailer in the southern United States. If the latter is the case an influx of level 58 DKs is likely due to the rodent like mating habits of the southern gentleman. You cousin loving folks need DKs so the entire family can “play” together.
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Get ready for some salt. 
Ban gold buyers for 6months and the problem would be solved. Not rocket science.
You really don’t value your time, do you? Nonetheless, thanks for the Idiocracy level entertainment. A few chuckles. Several yikes. Definitely an oof or two. Cheers.
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You like money. Lots of people in this thread like money.
They are brilliant and talk about brilliant stuff like “liking money”
They are geniuses. I like money and s… we should be friends.
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I had to get a special pill bottle and set alarms to remind me to take my meds. Might be a good idea. Just a thought!
Triggered? I was just messing around, but mental health is a serious issue. Making jokes about it is bad. Just look at that broad who got prison time.
#reported for targeted harassment.
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Bots fuel GDKPs.
Get rid of GDKPs and you decrease the bots.
I hope blizz does something about this. It’s running BG weekends
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They created the problem by letting any new account to make a 55 dk with no previous 55 character
and now despite video evidence and many many forum posts are doing nothing. They want the bots to stay obviously
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