the main issue is it can be hard to discern a bot from a player just mind numbingly grinding mats. For example: I spent 4hrs yesterday listening to music and mining around about 4k ore in total. didn’t say a word to anyone relatively unintentionally followed a route of spawns.
From an outside perspective I could have easily looked like a bot. So while I agree there should be more attempt at mitigating the occurrence of bots grinding nodes, it can be difficult on a wide scale to handle.
The problem with using older methods though is that it’s easier to spot, especially because they’re just teleporting around, and they exhaust their resources of stolen credit cards/accounts faster.
I mean, they turn into bears, and bears eat out of trash cans and murder hikers. You can’t trust people like that.
Noooo, I liked picking herbs for an hour and making 30k. I mean, my weapon enchant was 110k
Well, if you’re flying around like anyone else and gathering like anyone else then who cares. What we’re seeing is bot armies just appearing at nodes and then disappearing. Top of mountains, no mounts, and if you armory them they’re in low level gear if any.
oh god no.
I’ve also seen three different Evoker bots. xD
You will notice that there are a lot of ‘gold farmer’ types that basically just make gold by hand, as is common for a lot of games these days. Currently what I generally see is 2 druids together, one controlling dragon and the other not both herbing. Even see it in warmode for some reason.
They do, but that’s something that’s really detectable by Blizz so imagine it fits ‘suicide’ botting more than long term.
Even when they’re spotted or reported, a lot of time goes by until they’re actually banned, so that shouldn’t be a problem. Unfortunately Blizzard bans in waves.
Those extremely obvious Booty Bay bots I’ve reported in the past also always took a few weeks to get banned despite all having the same goofy pattern. Level 3 characters with names that consist of some letter salad, parked in Booty Bay. Logging in, repost stuff, log off for 3 minutes, log back in and repeat, the whole day.
thank god bots finally arrived… mat prices for flasks and stuff can finally go down a bit.
please blizzard unban them
well least rousing ire will stay expensive, considering those cowards dont put warmode on.
and if they do, i can just knock em off.
Not even hiding it there were 5 druids doing odd DF maneuvers from node to node named severbot01 02 etc