Clouds of botters - korthia nesingwary

[Rufflebottom-bloodhoof (Rufflebottom)]

Someone in a previous thread gave a great explanation for why Blizzard doesn’t use the whack-a-mole method to remove bots. Your reports on one realm would count as whack-a-mole.

Dozens of skinning bots printing gold in foxhollow woods

Or, look at it this way. In one scenario, you have Blizzard identifying and playing whack-a-mole with individual botting reports. You’re a goldselling company. You have ten thousand bots running around in-game. You have three accounts in a day that are identified as bots. They get banned. No worries to you. You didn’t buy those accounts, you stole them. And there’s no outlay of cash to replace them, you deploy a new wave of phishing emails to harvested gaming email addresses and your former c…

@Doubleßrutal-frostmourne

I have done THOUSANDS of reports, literally, not hyperbole. BOth of obvious druid riding a druid gather bots running identical pathing one after another, and also for WTS 2s / 3s in arena LFG

You reporting the same “obvious” bots over and over again will not make your reports have a higher priority. It requires reports from multiple players.
Advertising in LFG is done by organizations that have many, many accounts to do it from. All they do is switch accounts. Reporting them will slow them down but nothing anyone can do will stop them.

Thank you for wanting to help make WoW a better game. Reporting is always the best choice, even if it seems like nothing is being done. I’ve seen enough threads in Customer Support made by someone who was silenced or suspended because of reports like yours to know it does happen.