I’ve reported dozens of bot hunters in Tanaris, the Hinterlands, Thousand Needles, Feralas, Loch Modan, and other zones over the last few days. Blizzard, it is seriously out of control. The majority of the hunter pets also have Chinese names. Kill their pet and they stand around and wait for mana to rez it again.
There are other classes botting in Classic, but by far it’s hunters all over the place. I’ve never seen anything like it in 15.5 years of playing WoW. Faerlina also has queues of 1k+ in prime time right now, so tackling this bot thing would go a long way. I swear, it seems like I’ve seen more hunter bots over the last three days than players out in the world.
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You can stand outside of Zul Farrak on Whitemane, and kill 4 or 5 SETS of 5 Multi boxers every 2 minutes. Not 1 or 2 mages, 5 groups of 5 mages every minute on peak hours. It’s ridiculous
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Every bot that I’ve seen has been a lone bot and they all act the same way. I just logged on this morning and the first place that I went to (for quest mobs) has already killed every dragonling in the area, and it’s just pathing around for more of 'em.
There has to be a way that Blizzard can address this issue. It’s out of control.
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The bot hunters must be stopped.
Put an end to these psycopaths and let the bots roam freely as it was in Vanilla, Blizzard. Or do you care more about these soulless beings subscription fee than you do about the health of the servers they affect?
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Some of them may be chinese. But there are crazy hardcore US players too, who I wouldn’t put it past to have a separate account for botting that they use as a source of gold and mats.
It’s all guildless hunters with a blue helmet and bizarre names, they’re so obvious you can figure out who’s a bot just by doing /who Eastern Plaguelands and look at the hunter names.
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This is a serious issue and it’s quite telling how silent Blizzard has been about it.
It’s a subscription…these bots are the same to them as you or I am.
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There were less bots on private servers. It’s pretty pathetic on Blizzards part.
The people who owned and ran the private servers were not getting any kind of profit from letting bots run around on those servers, so they instantly banned them, along with multiboxers because they saw multiboxing the way that it should be seen as - cheating and completely unfair to average players.
Blizzard doesn’t ban the bots or take notice of all the multiboxers because the accounts they are running on pay a free $15 a month to blizzard. They try not to ban as many bots as they don’t have to, to keep the $$$ rolling in each month. Money is god of this world and its the sad reality of the horrible and disgusting state that humanity is in, in this day of age.
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