Trying to report a farming druid multiboxer and/or botter is close to impossible if they are careful enough.
When I am referring to a multiboxers, I am strictly referring to people who are clearly mirroring commands via software or hardware on multiple WoW accounts that could not otherwise be done by just one sole individual.
If it’s a bot, all the chars go instantly into stealth mode as soon as you target them so you cannot report them.
If it’s a person clearly multiboxing, he will either do the same if he sees you or try to immediately fly away so it breaks the targeting between you and them.
In both cases the result is the same. You cannot report them since you cannot target them anymore. Even in the case were you managed to open the report window, it doesn’t work anymore because again they are not in range any longer (something that just happened to me a few minutes ago).
Can Blizzard not find a way to deal with this in any way? To allow players to keep having the frame targeted even if it went in stealth or managed to fly far enough away!
There are tons of easy solutions Blizz could implement to automatically combat botting, boost spamming, and advertising in group finder. But they do not bother, because it isn’t bad enough yet that it is making them lose money.
I’m a legit multitaker of 3 characters but I see the 10x Druid farmers. They are guildless and each one is on a different realm… I guess it makes it harder to report them, they are fast.
Thing is if they are multiboxing without software/hardware they aren’t doing anything wrong… if they are or are bots then it’s a very different story.
Of course, as I said, it’s not a problem if they are multiboxing without software/hardware, but when all of them shapeshift at the same time it is clear that they are breaking the rules by using software/hardware to aid with multiboxing.
Bots are pretty advanced. The ones who go instantly into invisibility the moment you target them are bots.
Otherwise, Anna is right - multiboxers who just play multiple characters at the same time, using zero software or hardware assistance aren’t a problem. But those aren’t the 10 druids in a party all stacked on top of one another.
I am currently farming myself herbs with my sole druid and I keep seeing those bots/software multiboxers. It is so painfully obvious and they try so hard to hide since they know it’s against ToS. They always go stealth all at the same time the moment I target them or get close to them
recently I saw a multiboxer/bot in maldraxxus in the corner. when I approached him like 10 of his druids started moonwalking as if they had disconnected, but his main was still running around followed by a few alts.
I figured they have some logout macro on 90% of the chars to appear like a legit multiboxer who only runs a couple of accounts when someone sees them
If they keep going into stealth when targeting them just hover the mouse over them instead and try to screenshot it at that moment so the name can be seen at the bottom right of the screen.
Then email the screenshot of the character with all information to hacks@blizzard.com explaining everything about the assumed bot.
We know Anna, we can see the difference between legit boxers and bots.
OP, I’ve seen this a lot too. They really get me angry when they’re caught and vanish because they know they’re breaking the rules and probably likely selling gold earned for real cash, and yet they get away with it.
Yeah /who used to help but not since sometime BFA when they broke it. Combat log can SOMETIMES be helpful to get the names if there’s not too many people in the area and it was working to catch them casting prowl in which case you have the names and you can throw an e-mail to hacks@blizzard.com
I also used Spy addon for enemy faction bots a lot that would catch their names.
If you have software to record them, its easier to do it that way and send it to the blizzard email which deals with hacks etc. Go into a bit of detail, elaborate how bot-like / multiboxer-esque they behave doing stuff simultaneously, all at the same time. Provide video evidence, report one character the once in-game and watch the magic happen, easier when the bots / players try to feign being normal characters.
Hi, now I have nvidia experience, when I see bots, I record them (5 last minutes), then I check the names, I cut the video and I put it (private video) on youtube and then I send it to blizzard (ticket) with the name of the people (user link). Thanks to that, I can report them (not in-game) but with a ticket because as you said, impossible to target them, because they tried to fly away or they use vanish/shroud to go away.