wow The Bot Report: All the Recent Automated News

[Starym 3,800]

 

It's time to check in on the plague of WoW, as bots are spreading more and more. We've rounded up some bot encounters players have been reporting recently, with a few pretty stunning figures in there as well.

Let's start at the beginning of the bot life-cycle, as dack-janiels spotted a whoooole lot of "new players" over in Pandaria:

Source: dack-janiels.

Then we're on to some pretty startling calculations, as onetimelistener ran across a large batch over in one of their usual locations, Moonglade, as they sold off their ill-gotten gains. And while the math probably isn't quite 100% accurate, it's still frightening to see the potential numbers we're facing here:

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7200 bots per hour estimated

Per title. Teleported to Moonglade for the first time this expansion as a druid, there is a matrix style Agent Smith endless stream of bot druids teleporting in, vendor/repairing and teleporting back out. I counted on average 20 every 10 seconds. 3 of them earned the "Loot 200,000 gold" achievement and none were above level 50. I have tried to find a way to contact a GM, can't even open a ticket for mass cheating and the stream is so endless that right click reporting each and every one with a description of what they are doing is not feasible.

But how do these bots level? Well, several players ran into a pretty crazy farm method earlier this week, as a pet battle World Quest provided a whoole lot of fast XP.

And while there was a lot of confusion over what exactly was happening there, they managed to figure it out:

SleepyPB ran across over 50 bots doing this quest, and they were actually lagging the entire Nazjatar zone, with the lag getting worse when getting close to then. so he took matters into his own hands:

Source: SleepyPB.

And it wouldn't be a bot news post without some actual bot action! And while it's still possible the first video might be multiboxers, as there aren't that many of them, it seems far more likely it's bots (and the distinction is very important, as multiboxing isn't against ToS while botting very much is).

[FireLordJohn 91]

I wish Blizzard would make it so we could get them banned.

[Nastybirdy 33]

Is there some new botting program that's recently come out?  Because I swear I've never seen it this bad until this latest expansion.  I used to run into them every now and again, you'd see little convoys of them running about, but now they're EVERYWHERE, making it so hard to progress WQs because they keep tagging all the damn mobs.

[Libraridan 36]

9 minutes ago, FireLordJohn said:

I wish Blizzard would make it so we could get them banned.

Probably too much profit from letting them run AND a royal PITA to figure out how to eliminate the problem.

[WotansRaven 4]

Getting rid of bots is easier as a player base than it is as a gaming company, or at least it should be. That is, you simply do not buy items off the auction house, and you do not purchase gold or gold services. Rather, you get into a guild and you support each other by buying and selling from one another and helping each other farm. If the bots cannot profit, they will go away on their own. That said, I know I am living in a fantasy world wherein players actually unite around eliminating bots together. We all know that will never happen. Try getting random people to help you spawn a particular boss in the Mixing Monstrosities WQ and that becomes painfully evident.

Edited January 25, 2021 by WotansRaven

[breck 29]

Bunch of bots farming leather in bastion. They have been there for weeks.

[Unholyknight 9]

Most of the bots are farming leather. Every time i see them, i log on my toon with skinning. Go there and steal leather. XD

Edited January 26, 2021 by Unholyknight

[Prophet001 598]

Literally...

Stop buying gold.

That's it. That's all you have to do to end this.

Stop buying gold.

[Znifler 58]

On 1/25/2021 at 11:11 PM, FireLordJohn said:

I wish Blizzard would make it so we could get them banned.

VERY risky. Imagine if a dude with a tantrum wanted someone banned because he got ganked by them.

[Znifler 58]

On 1/25/2021 at 11:20 PM, Nastybirdy said:

Is there some new botting program that's recently come out?  Because I swear I've never seen it this bad until this latest expansion.  I used to run into them every now and again, you'd see little convoys of them running about, but now they're EVERYWHERE, making it so hard to progress WQs because they keep tagging all the damn mobs.

More players - More botters.