Is it too hard to ask for a GM to actually do something about the amount of bots that roam sholazar basin farming herbs/saronite. 90% of the druids/blood dks are bots, running their own attack script when engaged in combat. Out of the 20 unique players i killed, only about 1-2 were genuine players. Its demoralizing to be farming yourself, while seeing 20 bots flying by at any given moment. Clearly reporting them does nothing… so maybe we can shed some light on how bad the botting is in Sholazar Basin. I know its a stretch asking/expecting a GM to actually play the content they monitor, but you’d think they’d at least look over mass reports on bots.
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If you’re asking, you can probably answer this question.
As a Blood DK trying to farm out their Greatness card in Sholzar, I can safely say I am [beep] not a bot!
Really though, I’m not certain if it’s bots or just crap tons of people. 99% of the other herb farmers I run into are passive. The worse they will do is try to ninja an herb you already landed for. I haven’t seen the good ole swimming through the ground yet, but I bet I will in time.
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They’re coded to only defend themselves. Engage in a fight with them, that’s when you notice they are bots. They will stand there and face tank you, while popping all CD’s. You run away, they will chase you and then stop in front and face tank as you stop. Ive played with them enough to know exactly how the scripts work and once you fight a few, you’ll see what i mean.
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Yes. Stop asking. This game is on maintenance mode.
Also bots pad Blizzard DAU numbers so they’ll never be banned. Botting is allowed in WoW.
I noticed this morning in sholazar as well- as I’m gathering herbs other druids and dks were landing trying to farm the same herb, even tho my cast timer was way ahead of them. It happened over and over. A normal player would move on or try to kill me for a node, but it was almost like they didn’t notice / care that the node was being used and still went for it anyways
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Half a level more till 80, once I get the flying and everything ima be a nightmare to people out there while I make gold. Good ole cyclone and other abilities, ima just swoop in and steal those herbs and insta mount up and leave lmao. That’s the main reason I rolled on a PvP server, so I could beat the opposite faction. Same faction, kinda just SoL and it’ll depend on timing.
What server?
I farmed my Nobles deck and about 20k gold from sholazar on my 70 druid. I am not a bot. there are lots of nodes you need to hit just the right angle/landing spot to not get agro and I cant kill anything so if I agro I need to move on to the next herb
While we don’t have an army of bots on Grobb due to locks, any of the ones who havent been banned yet/are botting on compromised accounts behave exactly like this and its always fun to follow their path and camp them/steal their nodes.
The DK/hunter/druids bots can’t deal with pvp affliction dots.
Eranikus/Skyfury
I saw 3 of them last night, obvious bots, one dk was script running to an herb node then script running into a stack of crates at the nesingwary camp.
I don’t think all the players are bots, I’m certainly not, but when farming today on Faerlina I saw 5 other people try to swoop in to get the herb I was at. I wish I was recording this for fun. It’s pretty crazy.
Yep, I’m also trying to farm a greatness card for my hunter.
I’m doing it on a fake PVP 99% horde server though so there isn’t any fighting just like a true PVE server.
I’ve seen this already.
you wanted them to have living wages. now they’re too expensive to be hired.
you did this to us. this is your fault.
So what you’re saying is the new meta is to make bots that infinitely kite bots
the enemy is too weak
the enemy is too strong
You don’t even have to clone most of the time. I was farming mines on my 70 DK with (cold weather book) flying and I didn’t even get aggro like 80% of the time. On my druid, there are only like 2 spots I even have to clone (unlike TBCC where it was more).
That’s of course why anyone can do it, and it’s even super easy for bots.
majority of bots are not flying around gathering…they are teleporting node to node under the world or they are botting mobs/instances.
you play on a 70k+ pop mega server yeah you gonna have competition majority being actual players, cry more.
Lol you clearly have not been farming in sholozar basin, and it shows. Therefore im not sure why you bothered responding on a topic you know nothing about. You also dont know the difference between botting, and hacking, which also shows. I have no problem competing vs genuine players… but bots are a different story and that’s something you also are failing to comprehend. I attack 100% of players i see and 1% actually put up a real fight, its boring. But you’d have to actually be competant in PvP to attack players to realize that which again… you clearly know nothing about. Move along thread dweller
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this happened to one of my raiders, node disappeared right in front of him
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