I realize legit people do it as well, but I have seen bots doing it too.
I don’t think a simple /who can tell you who is or who is not botting.
If you farm anything too long you get whispers yelling at you for being a bot - people are kinda stupid
I’ve been invited into a ZG before for leveling and used eyes if the beast to watch the movement of the mage boosting, he didn’t talk, using an auto invite 123 and it wouldn’t start until payed per person even if the other person was leaving. If the person was in the group it would ask for payment with the same message only changed by character name. If I remember correctly it would say something like this.
“X player has not payed, waiting on payment to start, X player will be kicked in 5 minutes if payment is not received” the message would play every munte counting down before kick. 4 min 3 min exc.
The movement were very bot like as well.
I don’t often chat to people when I’m farming or boosting either
They don’t bot the boosting runs generally, it would be obvious and get them banned. Most botters are inside dungeons alone fly hacking. Believe it or not the boost runs generally take human input to do, Chinese bots are complex but not that complex. NA is behind a bit on the botting scene, that’s why they are always banned first.
This is most likely someone using weakauras to bypass language barriers. And yes their movements can look bot like because they don’t naturally play the game. They learn to do a specific job and that’s run the boost route.
Higher end boost runs are very very unlikely to be botted, especially bringing people in publicly. Not saying it doesn’t happen but knowing the mechanics of it all and the state of bot complexity. I doubt it very much.
Selling boosts is a good way to “clean” the gold. So are GDKP runs, and the AH selling of gray items for a lot more gold than they are worth.
There are ways to “clean” the gold.
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I don’t mean why don’t they use bot programs to boost. I mean why wouldn’t people who use bots (large scale orgs or otherwise) sell boosts while they are boosting their bot accounts. It seems to me that would be pretty lucrative to be leveling new bots and selling boosts at the same time.
Lol no they don’t do that at all.
They don’t even take the gold that was gained from botting.
I’ve had a few friends get 6 month bans, come back, ahhh yep all the gold is still here.
Meh, I’ll just be waiting for my wow token.
im not a buyer of gold, never have never will, but guildies are saying that in Oceania, 1k gold is worth $85 a.u.d so thats around $69 u.s.d so gold is worth more than boosts atm.
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So, you were wrong, and will always be wrong.
Your logic is seriously flawed. Of course the botters will use it. And now there’s a very good reason for blizzard to do more frequent ban waves. They make the extra money with the boosts, then ban non-legit players. Instead of getting a few months off botters, then doing it. They could do a ban wave a month now and probably be ahead until the botters give up.
A bot running in ZF for 1 day makes almost 2.5x their investment back.
bots arent that complex. a lot of these pulls have to be done fast and require human reaction times.
besides a bot selling boosts would get the ban hammer fast due to reports. bots want to evade being seen. the open world ones that arent flying under terrain arent big players and get banned fairly fast.
Yes they are
not enough to do massive pulls, trust me. you clearly have no insight into this realm.
No, they are really aren’t. Even the levelling bots don’t even have the capability to do most quests, instead grinding mobs for xp in a level range.
Bot software’s complexity is based on the ability to evade blizz’s anticheat, which is where most of the effort goes into so it remains undetected.
They are farming raw gold not mats.
They are making mats more expensive by devaluing your gold.
good talk.
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Yes. they were. Sad to see one of your troll posts being totally blown out by Blizzard. But extremely happy for the game!.