If it was just one person. No, no I wouldn’t. And if I didn’t see multiple hunters running around Alterac Mountains during Classic; reporting each one of them and then watching them continue to exist for the few days of each week I’d swing by there to farm Wintersbite.
I’d be suspicious of the mages. Specifically: Des, Bav, and Car (purposefully abbreviating due to forum policy about dropping names). Though I do know /who doesn’t denote if the dungeon is heroic or not.
There’s also that Ashkandi is about half the ‘seen’ pop of Pagle. Like, right now, there’s 21 non-70 mages in Slave Pens.
((And I know how this looks, but apparently there was a ban wave a few weeks ago. Keep an eye on Slave Pens and see if more ‘strangely named’ mages and rogues start showing up.))
Yep, I know it looks tinfoil hat-ish.
I encourage people to report bots. And, if those characters that are clearly botting continue to persist after the report, keep reporting. And then come here and Tweet Blizzard CS; in short, make noise.
((Obviously stay with in the ToS for both platforms.))
Oh and don’t just say “bot” in the report. Give a bit of detail as to what they were doing and how they were moving. Of the roughly dozen or so characters I reported, all of them resulted in a ingame mail.
…though they did stick around as I mentioned earlier.
Blizzard should be running ban waves on a weekly basis. Not every couple months.
Heck, if I were them, I’d make a webpage that posts how many accounts were banned for various reason: Exploiting, Botting, Gold Selling, Gold Buying, Harassment, few others maybe. No names.
Would go a long way to dispelling the rather solid impression that Blizzard doesn’t care, and actually relies on Botters to pad numbers.
