Black lotus prices back up to 140g and rising (Spineshatter Horde) - my first and only in months.
I was lucky enough to pick one before another horde character in Silithus. A few minutes later 3 alliance characters pursued me and camped me.
I left the zone and went to Winterspring, on arrival was camped by 3 more players right outside Everlook.
I thought faction collusion was against TOS.
Please consider making BL drop from all high level herbs, it’s clear that the spawn increase change has only increased the number of BLs getting into the hands of the cross-faction cartels.
A master plan by Blizz to combat bots /hackers /farmers/ cartels…that
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that some how helps them and not the players…
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TBH it was quite clever of them to market this change as something that helps players, but they knew it would only increase herbs for bots. Hellishly clever /clap
They could have actively went after all these bots in a targeted sweep, and continue to sweep once every morning for 2 months untill the stain of hacking bots was removed for good.
Your house is a mess Blizz, clean it up, have some self respect and put down the piles of cash.
One of the main reason blizz/green posters say the problem cant be solved is due to farmers having to many bots to replace those lost to ban waves
Maybe increase the frequency of the ban waves to make it unprofitable for them to continue
ITS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE BLIZZ
So in conclusion, blizz actively support these illegitimate players like we all suspected.
They should have just made the SoM/SoD change. This change was shortsighted, and doesn’t fix the issue, which is the camped spots which is now giving the bots double the amount of BL, and they’re staggering them on the AH to increase the price again (think De Beers).
As someone who farms lotus almost every day when “working” remotely, I agree. The change was horrible. I feel like I see even less nodes nowadays, and the price didn’t change at all. The only ones who benefit are the hunter bots who are running around in circles for 12h+ per day.
Though to be fair, people exaggerate the bot issue a bit. Maybe every fourth player who runs around in circles is a bot, rest are just normal players desperate for money. And then there are the rogues in stealth on almost every node as well, but they seem to be real people as well. At least they respond and try to do big pvp moves when you kill them. Not saying there isn’t a bot issue, but what I am saying is that even without bots a real person runs through the nodes every 1 minute. And then when we add in the stealth afkers on almost every node, no wonder people rarely find anything as they get picked up instantly.
My friendslist has changed to a botlist. Since months, no matter what time in the day, these show up.
The crap “the company” calls mass ban is so incredibly stupid. During all these months they let the bots “work” they make billions AND have more time than enough to level more of their kind, so if the ban wave catches them, their successors are more than ready.
About the “cartels”, well I haven’t got an expression for them which suits the netiquette as to how they should be treated.
What’s with the clueless people always showing up with “you don’t need flasks to clear content” comments?
Yes, obviously you don’t need anything but ~30 people with pulse to clear anything currently in game, and consumes aren’t really needed at all before second half of AQ40, and you can even clear Naxx without consumes if it came to that.
That is not what flasks are for, they improve your parse on WCL, they show your dedication and respect to your team’s time and effort, and they make so that if everyone is the sort of person who brings a flask just because they can, your 2 hour MC with wipes on bad trash pulls turns into a 30 min dance of beauty and efficiency.
It’s like a wicked circle, if your raid is so bad it needs a flask to clear content, it inevitably consist of people who would never even consider bringing consumables to begin with.
I understand what you’re saying but if you got all wb the extra you get from a flask is not that big. On Horde side you have the Rend buff that boosts melee damage significantly. The guys selling the black lotus need the gold to sell to people who use it to buy black lotus. If no one would buy any for lets say a month they would get hurt where it matters, in their wallet. The better solution would obviously be to either add the lotus to a vendor in unlimited supply or make it a rare drop from random herbs (but that would force bots to go out and farm all herbs possibly making those more expensive)… or ban the black lotus mafia
Why? What’s so funny about it? Comparing parses on wcl and trying to improve them is the main reason many people even play WoW Classic endgame PvE. Why would the most popular way to make PvE somewhat “competitive” make you burst out in loud laughter?
Want to see something change ? Increase the black lotus drop rate by 10-20% mafia simply buys it and then hoards . ALso wouldnt be bad to start combating vpns- and selling boosts for gold. Spineshater has so much people from Iran that you can simply get away by speaking persian on the server. It’s getting out of hand !