Herbing, mining, leveling, cooking, cleaning…
Bots are everywhere… and blizzard does nothing against them. Ah and multi-boxers… a low-level char with a level 60 comes and steals your quest mob kill after you clear the cave…
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Multiboxing is not against the rules, using software to control them all at the same time is. The AH “bots” are usually people using addons.
The reason Blizzard does nothing is that no one reports them.
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I keep reporting them on spot. And some people use add-ons make sound and flash when a herb in radius spawns… So they keep standing still and go afk while farming black lotus.
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If an addons does it then it’s not breaking the rules, and that is not botting, it’s multiboxing.
Good, so do I. Blizzard do like their banwaves so these botters may get caught in the next one. Blizzard don’t just ban people because someone reports them for botting, they investigate them first, sometimes not very well but they do investigate.
Bots, summon bots, gold farmers that 100% RMT and play the game like a job 8 hours farming mats…
Blame the people buying the stuff. Buying summons everywhere, buying boosts, GDKP, buyins… etc. All bad for the game but nothing will happen because really - the players of the game are to blame for the problem in the first place.
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How do you know they are bots?
How do you know they farm 24/7?
Just curious. Getting the same tiresome feeling as from when playing fps-games when kids shout “Aimbot!!” as soon as they get spanked.
Are your observations solid enough for calling “Bots!!!” ? Really?
Just curious how you know.
There are many ways to check. Usually you can tell simply by the name, most real players wouldn’t name their character ‘Asdfg’ - combine this with no guild and some other defining features such as the classic female dwarf hunter. You can go further an do an inspect on them, and see that they’re wearing all BoE’s (standard for bots, apparently). You can take it another step further and try to grief them, steal the mobs they will tag, wait for a reaction, etc. Many ways to check and it’s usually obvious - not sure what you’re trying to start here.
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I am trying to understand how someone can conclude that a server is full of bots.
To me it seems like a huge undertaking.
Bots does the sharp turns you get from click-to-move so when you observe them you can almost always tell after they loot a mob. I call it the bot-pirouette 
They will also do the same things over and over. If you are not sure you can attack them if they are enemies or ninja tag their mob to know 100% sure.
Right now in the game if you visit any sub-60 zone and go to an area where there are many mobs but not many quest mobs there will most likely be only bots farming. For example when I traveled in Hinterlands the other day I saw 4 bots and 1 human player. And when I traveled in south Tanaris I only saw 3 bots.
If you type in chat /who blackrock rogue 60, you will often find 20-50 bots. We can’t know for sure how many of these guildless rogues are bots, but, obviously most of them are, not all, but most.
If you type in chat /who wetlands 10, you can see the fishing bots. Again, we can’t know all of them are bots, but, most/all are.
And the last thing, after you report bots you sometimes get these in-game letters from Blizzard telling you that they have taken action against players you reported. I have got at-least 10 of those, so I know for sure that I am reporting bots.
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You’d be surprised.
My non raiding characters are wearing BoEs and I don’t bot.
That’s a better way, but I help players who tag mobs, I was doing it yesterday in STV, helped save the life of a gnome mage.
There was a great area in ashenvale where I used to kill bots, I think you have to get a curing item for the Night elf child from it, a closed off island with elementals running around it, I think there is sometimes a rare there. North east of the alliance town.
People always wanted World of Starcraft, we kinda got it now with all the bots.
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More bots - more cheap pots
And many tell us that they get these letters and the “same” bot is still there months later.
Another bot topic and another fanatic fanboi invasion.
Just login and write /who depths to see the situation easily. And yes there are ah bots, you can easily identify them by using tsm sniper baits. Anyone familiar with tsm can understand what is possible and what is not in 2 sec. You can identify an open world bot in 10 sec by watching their movements. Some bots even injected a jump function thats funny.
And reporting is a big lie. Nobody will check it. Because there is nobody in eu servers, check lunar fest bug fixed in us four days ago.
You report, they send an automated mail to thank you, and same bots continue to farm same places as they did for 1.5 years.
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Blizzard isn’t doing enough to remove bots but to be fair, they are banning a lot of bots. Just not enough.
Do a /who Blackrock rogue and ask yourself if a real person would spend 24/7 for several weeks in a row just pickpocketing raw gold in BRD without ever doing anything else.
If you truly believe those ‘players’ are all human, then you are simply too good and innocent for this world.
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I really cba doing /who brd 24/7
Just pulling your leg. The point I am making is that people seem to shout bot with evidence requirements of a russian court.
But ok I get your point.
It’s now 04:48 and there are over 50 rogues in BRD without a guild on Gehennas. I whispered 17 of them and weirdly no one answered. It’s super weird how busy they are.
Obviously we can’t prove anything when players are inside dungeons (and it’s not our job to prove stuff), but, I mean you can visit some of the bot-forums and just browse the BRD pickpocketing bots to choose from…
This is not strange or extraordinary. What is strange is that Blizzard allow it to go on, day and night, day after day, since launch.
I got yet another in-game letter from Blizzard today telling me that they have taken action against bots I reported (out in the world). So they at least give the apperance to care.
If you ever travel the world you will see them in sub60 areas where there are not many quest mobs. Almost always rogues and hunters.
EDIT: Just found a rogue bot in Feralas, like always when traveling to Dire Maul. How do I know it’s a bot? It stand still after each kill to regen health… It click-to-move. It kills mob that I tag.
Here is a video from the bot I found, just now, while making this post (to show you how we can know how bots look like):
Finding a bot is not extraordinary, but, to find bots at this exact same area every time I travel to Dire Maul kinda is (this is in eastern Feralas). So based on this fact, I think it’s reasonable to come to the conclusion that most rogues in BRD also are bots.
The goal here is to tell Blizzard that it’s a big deal and that they should ban more bots faster. We see them, we know they are here, and it’s ruining the sense of immersion, and the economy. As paying customer who pay a full subscription to play a copy of a 12y old game, I think it’s reasonable to demand that Blizzard uphold heir own rules.
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As a person who plays during the night, most of the “players” I meet while leveling my alts are very obvious bots. There are many ways to quickly see if they are bots or not, especially after observing several hundreds of bots. I report every single one of them but it almost seems pointless. It’s getting very frustrating. Blizzard is not doing enough and it is ruining my game experience.
the problem with banwaves is that it takes no effort for botters to create a new account, and they can freely bot until the next banwave. If bans were flowing in realtime, they’d at least have to spend a lot of money on new accounts.
as far as I know, it has nothing to do with RMT because you trade gold for loot. You can also get rich through that by attending several raids without looting anything, so that you have the gold for the next raid.
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