Last night I was minding my own business in Zaralek cavern farming some ores and occasionally ganking few hordies. It was more of a earn some gold evening than world pvp evening but quite soon I’ve noticed a pattern. There was about 16-18 players on the horde side, divided in pairs. 2 players dragon riding on a same mount mining and collecting herbs. The thing is, they are all bots.
Every single one of them is low geared, follows a flying pattern and occasionally glitches out and runs into the wall. The most infuriating thing seems to be that they phase in and out constantly so it is impossible to report them in game. But if anyone from Blizzard reads this, go onto the combat logs on this character and ban everyone except that rogue I fought.
Why am I posting this on PVP forums? Well here is where the fun part begins. As someone who despises bots, I decided that the best course of action is to stun them as soon as they land and nuke them. The most idiotic thing is that the wing shreder cast time is too slow and 90% of the time the target LoSes me. It borders with retardation how bad this item is. The cast time needs to be instant. Wanna not get knocked off your mount? Turn the war mode off. And what is with the one minute cooldown on it? Most of the time the target is moving too fast for any meaningful knock down to be performed. Not to mention that for some reason it doesn’t work if the target lands. So back to the problem I’m complaining about.
Since they were all horde players, naturally the alliance assassin buff was provided in game to me quickly. Suddenly, I am dismounted from my own dragon and a quest popped out, slay 10 horde players for the title. However, now I am not able to fly around and a bunch of horde players suddenly comes and ganks me. I die. So I once again go and farm, kill every bot near me and the quest pops again. This time, I’m stacked with engineering bombs, healing pots and other world pvp stuff, so I complete the quest and get the title. However, I am still unable to fly. In hindsight, I understand that this is to prevent the people with the bounty to erratically move around the map, but FFS I am killing bots and my reward is handicap I can not even remove. Bots keep flying around and people who kill them then get their flying removed due to some clusterf**k mechanic. And while the bots are still farming, I have no way of knocking them down or reporting them, plus a bunch of people comes and tries to gank me. I have no problem with the last part thou, but make it so that I am not handicapped by simply killing bots and ruining the bot owner’s farm when you are already not banning these accounts. I am telling you, they phase in and out, every single one of them rides in pairs to maximize profit and the wing shredder can not knock them off the sky due to being an ineffective item with cast time of a snail.