The ban wave approach never work, doesn’t work and will never work. The fact that people keep bringing this up after 20 years of botting is mental.
You want full wow botting guide or something?
Prob another fan of that dumbass wothless piece of crap from youtube pretending to be ‘ex blizzard employee’, that spews nonsense about how anti bot work in game. Hes called ‘pirate’ - something.
Theres two ways to to fight bots in games. Hire people and ban bots rn.
Or.
Make an illusion of bot hunting by automating entire process.
Last one is how most games works today. Including wow
The same thing happened in dragonflight and it killed gathering toward the end of the expansions there as well, they made all those annoying elemental nodes, damaging spores, EZ-mine bombs, cursed posion to “punish” or deter botters but it doesn’t matter, you see clusters of 5-6 green geared druids flying around hallowfall every day picking up that 20000 ore bismuth dump sold at 80% of the bottom
The wow economy is a race to the bottom with botters like this