Blizz, I am so close to quitting over this issue. The botting problem has never been this bad. And it’s not just boomkins. I sat in Bastion watching one bear druid stay still while spamming the area. Another druid would run a set path back and forth basically doing the same thing.
I am tired of reporting these players, and tired of seeing nothing change. I fully realize this game is mostly a time-waster to start with. But at least I can pretend that I’m working towards a goal.
Seeing rampant botting makes me think you just don’t care anymore. And honestly, if you don’t, then why should I? I mean, do you want me to quit? Because you’re doing a bang-up job.
This is the other method the druid bots have that I noticed some time ago; at least two bears drawing mass aggro in a hyperspawn area, exp locked, killing everything without a challenge. And they are bots, because I’ve already gotten two sets of them banned.
Not being a donkey, but do you know what happens after your report a player?
It’s never instant gratification, you’re not going to see the players you reported suddenly disappear while you’re watching.
And for good reasons, imagine I get salty towards you for stealing my node and report you! If the system were automatically banning players anyone reported, you better believe that abuse would happen.
Don’t dwell on it, report them and keep playing your game. There’s a wave coming, bank on it.
Might as well quit. Blizzard will never do anything to prevent botting so even after a ban wave they will be back in less than 24 hours. Just start botting yourself.
Tbh more people need to start cheating and botting. The larger the issue the better probability it will get some legitimate attention. So please tell your friends and guild to make 10 bots each. Make the game completely unpleasant for everyone.
Doing the right thing hasn’t worked in 15 years. Guess we need a new approach
First new expansion ?
This is normal (would even say less than normal) at the beginning of an expansion.
The bot makers / users / gold sellers / other scum of WoW know that Blizzard is more focused on balance etc. at the beginning of an expansion and this is their time to make as much real $$$ off the payerbase by selling their ill gotten gold before the first massive bot ban wave hits.
I’ve been playing for 16 years, I used to post a lot in the olden days, but those got wiped looong ago. I try to stay away from forum so I don’t get depressed. If you don’t believe me, I have a panda pet you can say hi to.
they can’t even keep up nowadays with everything going on, did they use to idk sure seemed alot better idc anymore just seems i get to pay way less gold in the ah with them around so i flat don’t care since i ain’t much in to farming gold like i used to just to spend 500k on a legendary that is now way cheaper for obvious reasons so who cares.
Interestingly, when I play during the day, I almost see none. They tend to come out very late at night, and especially in the early morning hours. Which makes total sense, since they are less likely to get reported, and thus can bot the night away.
I guess what really bugs me is that normal players can spot a bot in about 15 seconds. These things are not that intelligent or sneaky. I’ve never seen one be clever enough to slightly modify its path, or run through various different behaviors.
So the question is, with Machine Learning being so damn clever these days, how in the world can Blizzard not spot these things and auto-kick them? No human being is accurate enough to move in the exact same way twice. How can they not detect these patterns?