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You tell me. The change does nothing to combat botting. Hell, even if bots can’t do instances, they can bot in the open world. How does this change affect bots in the open world? How does this change affect bots in BGs? It doesn’t.
At best, you could argue it indirectly increases detection by pushing them to places where players would see them, except…
Botters can simply swap to another realm. Many botters that bot for the purposes of collecting gold to sell will not be impacted by this change whatsoever, as they have multiple accounts already. They simply rotate where each account is botting.
Bot 1 on Realm A.
Bot 2 on Realm B.
Bot 3 on Realm C.
Bot 4 on Realm D.
Hit the cap?
Bot 1 on Realm D.
Bot 2 on Realm A.
Bot 3 on Realm B.
Bot 4 on Realm C.
100% botting time, same as before.