Bots commonly have names like Fkjhgfdfhb but not always.
Bots are primarily Mages, Hunters & Rogues.
Bots move in direct lines. This is called Way-pointing.
–Bots do not usually jump or strafe
They always take Skinning and will only skin enemies they have killed.
They do not currently use rune abilities
–I have seen Hunter bots use explosive arrow
–I have not seen any Mage or Rogue bots using rune abilities, even the starting ones.
Bots typically do not accept guild invites unless manually accepted by the Bot master.
Bots scripts are primarily based on grinding mobs
–If you see a level 25 character grinding lower level mobs for no reason, it’s probably because they are a bot and their script has not been updated for the level cap and the Bot master is asleep or afk!
Most bots have already made it to level 20+ with a few at 25.
Did you level faster than a bot in Season of Discovery
Do you feel like Blizzard’s efforts to stifle Botting/RMT are still inadequate
Ugly formatted post, but yeah…bots just run around areas with instant mob respawns and infinitely kill them. I see trains of hunters all following each other on a script as they run a set pattern all shooting things at the same time.
Give it a few weeks, they will be farming the instances too.
Here are some things the bots can do.
Fly back
Mole hack
Instance grind
Scripted combat rotation, defensive and offensive vs players.
Use CC and consumes like healing pots.
There are roughly 6 primary bots that I have come across while playing Era, at one point there were literally hundreds of thousands of them, not joking easily 100k+.
They have fully moved to SoD,
The result will be overall a massive inflation pressure because inflation is always a monetary pressure not a supply and demand issue.
All the coiners are in SoD, so the Gold DKP groups will swamp game and as a result the flood of bot gold raises the cost of all AH mats and items to the moon.
The botting war will literally never end as long as there are people paying for gold & boosting. The only way Blizzard could permanently end botting, is by having a human visit your house and watch you play while you’re logged in.
And it makes sense for them to ban in quarterly waves. Slows people who make bots from being able to recover as quickly as they could if Blizzard banned after immediate detection, sadly.
Think of it like the folks who make our most popular addons, except if new expansions were released with zero PTR or pre-release that could be datamined. It takes a couple weeks for those addons to be updated as it is. If they had zero knowledge beforehand of the changes, it would take them much longer. Same applies to the botters. If they get banned after immediate detection, then it’s very easy to figure out how and fix it.
It makes more sense to hire someone to manually ban them after being investigated while monitoring starting zones.
The sooner a bot gets banned the sooner blizzard receives another cash deposit into their bank account.
Until one day the bots… stop buying wow subscriptions which is the entire point it’s always going to cost money to remove bots, may as well do it properly.
If Activision can afford to pay bobby 200mil in salary bonuses after he commits a real world crime impersonating a CCO at his own company during an ongoing investigation of systemic abuse then surely they can spare a few million in employee salaries to combat bots in the most efficient manner possible.
are still inadequate 
it’s always going to cost money to remove bots, may as well do it properly.