Druid Bots? are becoming a real problem

[Lîger-area-52]

Make sure you report every single one. They will take action against the accounts and will send you in-game mail to let you know action was taken.

[Rikar-haomarush]

Ya that’s why we need some of them level 61 elites that can one shot them walking the areas. Soon as the big guy walks in they target him and there goes their grp.

[Kittredge-azjolnerub (Kittredge)]

Maybe a system built into game that realizes 7,000 beasts were killed in this area, so send a super elite. Then again, they’d probably end up farming that too.

[Gnitwit-zuljin]

Like the chickens in Zelda games…

[Gnitwit-zuljin]

Start taking all the gold from bots that get banned and divide it between everyone that reported them and see how fast they get caught.

[Rikar-haomarush]

@Gnitwit-zuljin

Like the chickens in Zelda games…

That would be hilarious. They target some little varmint mob and when they kill it they get swarmed.

[Pazu-khazgoroth (Pazu)]

@Gnitwit-zuljin

Hell, they could break half the bot farming just by requiring you face a moonfire target.

please dont

[Kiaryel-terenas]

@Rahkeetahp-aerie-peak

or maybe…its blizzards bots…farming stuff to sell on the AH…for gold…to buy tokens with

Are you okay? What possible sense could it make for blizzard to have bots farming mats? I mean…If they wanted to they could literally just create them with a couple of key clicks.

I suppose…if I were in a fever dream…I could see a scheme to farm mats, to sell for gold, to buy tokens, to…drive down the token price and disincentives people from buying tokens to sell on the AH? Hrm…perhaps in a short term “to many tokens on the ah lets get them bought out” scenario there might be an especially challenged 1st week on the job and this somehow became my responsibility even though I have the wisdom of a toddler because mommy and daddy paid for every grade I ever got intern that might hatch such a scheme.

I do hope you were trying to be ironic/funny. If not I would suggest a few hours of exercise a day to increase alertness and mental acuity.

[Corvikt-stormrage]

Yep, I’ve just made it a habit to report any boomkin I see running around outside of cities. I’ll let Blizz sort their legitimacy out.

[Rahkeetahp-aerie-peak]

@Gnitwit-zuljin

Most of the bots are playing druids because Moonfire doesn’t require the target to be in front of you, Moonfire is an instant cast long range pull, and druids can easily heal themselves and their party. They also have more than 1 druid so one can be the tank and 1 or 2 others can do all the dps.

You end up with one spamming a moonfire and target macro standing on top of the other one who is in bear form spamming swipe. No class would be easier to make a bot for.

Hell, they could break half the bot farming just by requiring you face a moonfire target.

My gaming experience has been in pretty much every sort of game Ive played…including CCGs and table top RPGs…that cheaters…cheat. You can try to change to rules to keep them from cheating but they just find some other way.
Digital just makes it even more complicated to try to stop the cheaters.
I had to literally make a dice tower because I have one player who likes to try to manipulate dice rolls LMAO.
I had to quit playing games I like because I hate cheaters and they just dont stop. People you think are decent and have some integrity end up being the worst cheaters half the time.

They make the change you want…they’ll just adapt and do it some other way.
Its in the cheaters nature to cheat. its what they do.

[Rahkeetahp-aerie-peak]

@Corvikt-stormrage

Yep, I’ve just made it a habit to report any boomkin I see running around outside of cities. I’ll let Blizz sort their legitimacy out.

Id be careful with that. I believe its actionable to continually file false reports.

[Gillmage-blackrock]

@Rikar-haomarush

It’s affecting the gameplay of nearly your entire player base.

Not really.

[Rikar-haomarush]

@Gillmage-blackrock

Not really.

So you’ve never been affected by these bot grps? I think not, nearly BTW means almost all, but not all.

[Gillmage-blackrock]

@Rikar-haomarush

So you’ve never been affected by these bot grps?

Nope. Butt I farm my own gear.
And I dont buy off the AH only sell.

[Gillmage-blackrock]

If one [whatever] is bad, they all are bad!

[Bullogna-kelthuzad]

Same. How do I know it’s not some guild farming group? Only bot report Ihave done was in BFA with 5 druids simultaneously casting the same spell. Never heard anything back so I dont even know if it was against ToS

[Lîger-area-52]

Yea, what Rahketahp said. Only report anyone that you believe is actually botting. If you report non-bots, then Blizzard taking action against bots gets slowed down as well.

This also really sucks for someone who mains a druid b/c if you just got reported for your class is known for “botting” and the system kicks you out for a day or so, that’s not a good feeling either. Not saying that has happened, but be mindful of players VS bots.

[Leannánsí-moon-guard]

@Rikar-haomarush

Edit: I suggest some of those lvl 61+ Elites that can one-shot them that drop zero loot to march around the zones, much like the Fel Reavers from Hellfire Peninsula. At worse players could pull them into these bot grps. At best they would agro the Elites with their own Starfall.

I suggest GMs. They’d be perfect for this kind of thing.

[Somalion-eitrigg (Somalion)]

Must be a day ending in the letter Y.
Yes there are bots in WoW. yes there has been, and always will be, bots in WoW.
Yes the way to deal with them has not changed since Nov 23/2004 which is to report and move on and eventually they will all be caught up in a ban wave never to appear again … Just kidding it only gives a few weeks respite until the process happens again but those are glorious few weeks.

Do your part, report, move on.

[Kneeshooter-amanthul (Kneeshooter)]

This is a difficult one, because that could also be the actions of one or more people who have put a group together to farm mats.

I mean, I certainly remember druid groups in BfA over in Kul Tiras where there those quill beasts were on the shore, they were a rapid spawn mob and druids would just run around starfalling them down and others in the group would skin them. Blizzard eventually fixed that by removing useable skins from the mobs.

It’s one way to fix it of course but it also removes the skins from normal players who may just want to pick up a few for their Leatherworker. There are other ways to fix it, such as increasing the spawn timer or treating them like herb nodes - make it so that once you have killed and skinned a mob two or three times, it disappears.