Every single lower-level zone and BG is overrun with DK bots. They are consistently 40-50% of BGs, and are everywhere in the world farming. I’ve reported hundreds of them. Nothing has changed.
This is unplayable, unmanageable. It is frankly embarrassing for a company of Blizzard Activision’s resources to let any of their games to get to this point, as clearly they have stopped trying. I will likely not renew my sub because of it.
And before the slobbing defenses of it “they’ll never do anything because bot accounts pay subs too” - I know. That’s the problem. Late at night BGs are often 90-100% DK bots just brainlessly running scripted paths into each other. That’s the future of this game if action isn’t taken.
I wouldn’t expect a change and I’d stop reporting them too. Blizzard would lose a lot of money by banning those accounts and aren’t willing to do it. Just put on your blinders and move on past them.
Except you can’t do that, because they make BGs unplayable. There is no battleground when half your team is unresponsive scripts, and there is no pvp when you’re just fighting characters running the same path over and over. That’s worse than farming. It completely undermines the entire point of pvping.
I get it, i feel for you. But i assure you they can and are doing it. Your choice is blinders or unsub and walk away. All those dk accounts are paying $15 a month and Blizzard doesn’t like losing money.
They are everywhere, and they even have their own guilds to make them appear less suspicious.
On my server, there are currently about 25 Death Knight bots gathering herbs/minerals in Sholazar.
How do I know that they are bots? They move in the same exact patterns, the same paths have predictable behaviors. They’re all using the janky-AF click-to-move-looking movement. Their names and guild names are also pretty gibberishy very often, either absolutely just a random smattering of letters or name-generator type things like +<word/name>, <word/name>+, <word/name>+<word/name> etc.
^again, those are not actual names I’ve encountered, but they are names I wroted styled similarly to bots I have encountered to give you an idea
I have also tested their behavior in a way I won’t disclose. I have not broken terms of service, I just don’t wish to reveal the method because it would be possible for them to update the bot to avoid this test.