Bot farmers on Darksorrow

[Gnimsh-darksorrow (Gnimsh)]

For the past month, Tiragarde Sound on Darksorrow has been absolutely swarmed by bots farming herbs.

Theyre all over the area, but mainly in the northern part of the zone, farming Riverbud nodes. Ive tried whispering them and they all either answer with “?” or no answer at all, not even if warned about being reported for cheating. Its easy to tell from the way they move as well, that theyre not human controlled.

Most of the bots are from Tarren Mill, which tells me that its either one or two people having lots of freshly dinged characters to farm for them (many of them are 110-11), or its organized by a group. Because of this, Riverbud farming has become almost impossible in a meaningful way, as an example Ive had runs where I finished with more anchorweeds than Riverbuds in my bags.

For the past month Ive been reporting the bots every time I see them, with the time for the sighting added in the report. Some of the bots Ive reported 30+ times, and nothing has been done at all. Its the same bots as well, with some new ones added to the mix over time.
I could easily write down a list with the names of the bots, to further the ban process, but Im guessing its a violation to post them here. If not, just say the word.

So, when are you going to do something about this Blizzard? How long are these cheaters supposed to get away with this? Its completely out of hand on my server.

[Lxser-draenor]

I think it’s been answered a lot of times that bots get banned in waves and not individually some people do think there’s a conspiracy behind the bots not getting banned

[Ishaelara-silvermoon]

bots are good, they keep the prices low… so stop complaining please

[Voodoodle-doomhammer]

Yet they break the rules that blizzard made.

[Magiola-darksorrow]

That’s about multiboxing, not botting?

There may be a link or two to useful parts of the tou or what not, but linking to something completely unrelated is kind of odd is it not?

Multiboxing != botting…

Anyways, yea they do seem to ban in waves. Not how I’d like to see it, but I can understand that they can’t instantly investigate every single bot report all the time.

[Gnomècapped-outland]

The usual analogy I like to give is that Blizzard deals with bots much like you would with finding ants in your home.

You could keep looking for them on the walls, floor, cupboards, etc and squashing them individually. Even if you do it all day every day, you’ll not really make a dent. More and more will just keep appearing. What you instead want is to find where they are getting in and poison the route, killing the whole nest.

Blizzard studies them to find out how they work and how they can be identified and then gets rid of them in waves. While I understand that in the now it doesn’t solve the problem, in the long run it’s simply more efficient both in terms of numbers as well as cost efficiency. GMs do at times do manual checks as well, but it’s very hard to give infallible judgement based on rather short visual observation and as such the amount of accounts they act on manually probably does not affect the big picture all that much.