I’ll admit selfishly I did this for an hour and was logged off. Is there a change I wasn’t made aware of?
“How do I exploit the anti-AFK framework?”
Just kind of wondering if anything changed is all
The game has multiple anti-AFK measures… and at one hour if you dont move zones or do something actually impactful, like craft, or something… it boots you.
Theyve had this forever, I used to have to queue AV when I was ranking back in Classic from the Org gates and walk back and fourth between durotar and org to trigger the new zone so it wouldnt kick me
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Weird. I’ve done this in the past no problem. I’ve got some ideas now I guess. Can I craft one bandage every 29 minutes🤣
Just sit on a flight path on an alt and go back and fourth from Darn to Tanaris or w.e. its like 15 mins each way and wont boot you for AFK. What I used to do back when Incendius had 5 hour queues.
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I believe there’s a way for you to auto reply with your character in a guild with a “grats” or w/e. Idk if this keeps you from going afk but I’ve heard it does.
I don’t know the name of the addon.
Ummm yeah I would 100% advise you to not do anything “automated” to try and prevent getting booted.
Ive read enough AFK AV complaint threads for my lifetime.
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I usually jump, walk around, and cast something.
If ever they were going to make a stealth change to be more aggressive about detecting AFK players, I suppose it would be now… so yea, proceed with caution 
Some keyboads/mice have programable keys. You can set an interval, like “w a s d space” then wait some time and repeat.
As someone who’s camped rares for hours, even if you never officially get afk status you’ll still get logged out in about 40-50 minutes. Moving the mouse or slight wasd movements don’t prevent this, but I’ve found generally moving back and forth in a 10-15 foot radius does. Casting spells might help too.
It seems to have some sort of minimum action requirement.
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Yes, along with phase2 tbc they launched it to stop botting. Now if you repeatedly drop the afk flag it will move to a stealth DC. Even if your actively whispering and organizing a group from shatt. Best work around seems to be killing critters to enter/exit combat, or just killing a random monster every 10-15 minutes again to enter/exit combat. To my knowledge this has never affected a single bot, but is highly annoying when you lose whisper history consistently for being in a city too long. Absolute clowns.
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