No burner sm just counts as one instance that’s why you can do 10 an hour
SM boosters are limited to 30 a day or 6 hours of boosting… means slots will be limited and prices will increase… thanks blizz for market fixing
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This is such a bad change guys. This does literally nothing to botters. The cap is per realm, all they will do now is have 4 realm setups and every 6 hours just rotate to a realm they are open to farm on.
Will it reduce botting output? Maybe, but not guaranteed. Will it effect legitimate players? Yes, not all, but we shouldn’t accept any amount of players being effected.
Think about these scenarios:
- Mages selling boosts or farming ZF/Mara/ZG etc.
- Hunters farming Tribute solo
- Anybody doing Jump Runs
- Druids farming MCPs
- Warlocks farming DM:E solo
- Warriors farming HoJ/SGC with a healer
- Anybody farming Stocks/DM for cloth for AQ40 turn ins
- Resetting instances for Jed ID
- Anybody who does any of these activities on an alt
That’s just way too many avenues for this to effect, all under the “guise” of fixing the botting situation (again, they can just rotate, this is at best a deterrent but nowhere near the level of a fix). You will see people having to change their play to accommodate this change as well as people being unable to zone in on Raid day due to not tracking their instance IDs well enough.
I’m sorry Blizzard, I’m happy you are taking the steps to combat botting and work with the community, but this ain’t it.
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This doesn’t seem like it’ll help much other than hurt more farmers than botters.
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Yes instead of putting some actual effort in and fixing the problem, let us punish the people we claim to try and be helping with this band-aid coated in acid.
Did you actually think people would be happy about this change?
This is so poorly thought out, it’s pathetically sad.
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Have you ever done an SGC or HoJ grind? You can easily eat 30 lockouts in a day. You really have little understanding of what is going on here. You should probably stop responding.
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If the goal was to log them off i guess that would be something. Though i doubt blizzard would use that as a reason.
Economically if you can sell the items, runs and gold created for more than the cost of the sub with enough leftover for profit, then the trend is going to continue. Though perhaps blizzard did an economic analysis to figure out what the ROI was of a botter and found this to be the point at which the amount is not conducive to the number of botters we have thus redcuing the total number of botters. Though there will be a point where this cost of Goods will go up as botters and legit players cannot keep up with demands.
anyone else eagerly awaiting the instance reset griefers that will reset their groups instance multiple times, eating up the account-wide instance limit just for the lulz?
This is not the way to combat botters. Reinvest some of our subscription fees into combating these guys like you used to. These kinds of changes undermine faith in your brand and only harm legitimate players.
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“How can we automate this without having to pay for resources to effectively combat the issue?”
Thanks guys! Good looking out.
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This change is both terrible and lazy. Do better against bots not no life neckbeards. The neckbeards ARE classic WoW let them farm.
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Did you misqoute because that was my whole point?
I know I ain’t going to waste my precious time reseting an instance all day like some fools.
Do you know what’s really going on here?
Just stop.
This is the equivalent of trying to deal with piracy by sailing less.
As someone who works in devops and development teams, I find this incredibly short sighted and just flat-out silly. @Kaivax, you guys realize, the botters won’t care about this, they’ll just crank out 5 additional accounts to do the dirty work. You are not addressing the problem, but you are alienating some of your most dedicated players.
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Will there be a way for a player to check their instance count? This would be nice to help avoid unintentional lockouts.
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Stop being addicted to the game perhaps?
Go play real life instead of crying over 31 instances per day?
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Define “normal” players. I seriously doubt that the majority of players will even notice the caps. I’ve been playing for 15 years and the only time I even remember there are any dungeon/instance caps is when I read about it on the forums 
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Absolutely. I love farming Mara on my lock! Can easily spend a half a day doing this w/o burning out, and I am in the process of leveling a rogue specifically to try out the BRD farms :’(
Hopefully they don’t go through with this