My account was silenced for warning players in the general chat about how to detect bots, helping them avoid inviting these players to layers. I explained that players in the Twilight Highlands, where the minimum level requirement is 84 and the mobs are challenging, would almost never see a level 80 player. So, using the command “/who 80-83 Twilight Highlands” would likely reveal bots.
This issue impacts us because bots are manipulating material prices on the auction house (AH), making it difficult for real players to compete. Currently, a stack of Fel Iron Ore on my realm is over 200 gold, and Adamantite Ore is over 400 gold. As new bots flood the AH with gathered materials at these high prices, it becomes nearly impossible for genuine players to purchase materials affordably. The same is true for herbs.
Given this, I question whether the herd mentality of these reports should trigger action before a GM reviews them. The global chat is often filled with “sniffa” spam, yet I don’t see those users being reported. I hope Blizzard takes a stronger stance against bots, especially since I have already provided detailed evidence to ban 8 of them. There are still low level druid bots south of Ramkahen farming herbs 24/7, dying in fire over and over again.
Wouldnt take more than 2 minutes for a ingame GM to summon all low lvl with mountspeed increase and just ctrl+a ban. Just do this twice a day in infected areas
just argued with a monkey in HC dung
2mins later i received a blizz warning, you can ask your guild to mass report someone , or even pay people to do it*
and he will get silenced
and there are no GMs anymore, its all AI algo ingame. thats why the game is garbage
Fel iron and adamantite ore are TBC ores, those are not mined in Twilight Highlands.
Usually, bots are flooding the market with ore which means prices are going down, not up.
What probably happened is that some player(s) bought all those ore on AH at low prices and relisted them at high prices, knowing that very few players bother to farm ore in TBC.
And that’s where you wrong. For example I’m farming herbs with my 80 lvl toon, started at Hyjal, moved to Uldum as soon as I’ve got profession high enough to farm herbs there, capped prof and moved to the Twilight Highlands. Already got to 82 farming herbs too. Sure there are bots flying around but that doesn’t mean that every 80+ lvl character there is a bot.
This i feel is VERY misleading. You’d find my lock, my druid, my guilds druids/Shams/warlocks/rogues all to be bots then.
I prioritized leveling these characters professions to make pots/Flask/smelting/enchanting over leveling them to 84 atleast. You don’t fight many mobs while gathering, infact only happened once.
I’m leveling my druid now in downtime to get portals to make it easier. But that one sentence is a really bad way to find bots.
Can see my other post to OP. But you’d bann alot of legit players, like myself.
If we have alts at 80 with gathering, we do not level them to 84 first, then got to TH.
We fly there directly, it’s like 5minutes from Stormwind.
Why spend 16hours first leveling 2 characters to 84, then start mining & not just fly there & mine immediately ?
Bots suck but they lower the prices on the AH, not increase them. They lower the prices by increasing supply above the demand. TBC ores are expensive because they are harder to farm in volume (worse/less spawns than in both WOTLK and Cataclysm) and also because nobody is farming them.
Mithril had the same issue in TBCC, messed up low spawn numbers and high demand with nobody farming it, while Thorium was hyperspawning in TBCC so it ended up dirt cheap.
It would also reveal people using their mining alts to farm ore for their professions, you only need lvl75 to learn Cataclysm professions, you only need lvl70 for epic flying.
True. I also think that a player manipulated the market and increased the price by several hundred percent. What doesn’t help is the fact that there are bots also trying to undercut that player with their ridiculous prices, playing the same “game.”
The problem isn’t that the TBC ore prices skyrocketed—this has happened before, even on private servers without bots. The real issue is the supply of ores from bots. It’s not uncommon to find bots in older zones, especially when people are trying to level up their professions. The players behind these bots regularly check the auction house prices and can find their optimal farming spots, whether in Northrend, TBC, or Cataclysm zones.
I’m not saying that all under-leveled characters are bots, it’s just a matter of pattern detection. Blizzard can check if the player responds to whispers, /s, or party invites—bots generally don’t do any of those at this moment.
Bots also follow a consistent path to farm and gather, moving from one place to another 24/7, which a real player can’t replicate without errors. Their PvE rotation is always the same, they usually have low achievement scores, and they often wear almost full green or PvP items while standing AFK in battlegrounds. These patterns can help distinguish bots from real players.
literally happened today twice,
1- after killing a boss in Halls dungeon , pressed need on an item
i opened the Chat channel UI , it bugged and i crashed ( great UI design )
logged back in and the grp started flaming me , got kicked and received ingame warning
imagine to what point getting silenced or banned has come to, its insane
am really afraid i get silenced or banned for this type of reasons, playing solo inside this toxic community is scary
2- joined a BoT boe farm, received a warning from no where !!
offline for a week, yesterday i logged my SoD Priest for guild raid, literally 5mins online i received a warning !!
its crazy,
check these screenshots , remove the space after the dot
imgur. com/a/oXatvtJ
UPDATE
today i received another warning, and got silenced for 7 days
lovely game, lovely community