2006-07-02 - Dear Diary,
after having found dozens of Beastmaster Hunter bots over the past weeks, it was almost a relief to find an oldschool Rogue bot. I was looking for Gromsblood in the Blasted Lands, when I noticed Moolida, a Night Elf Rogue, botting at the Dunemaul Ogres.
Note that there is a huge difference between farming and botting: farming is the act of repeatedly killing the same mob(s) to obtain xp, reputation or loot, while botting means that you're not controlling your character yourself, but a computer program is controlling your character fully automatically.
Moolida was running around, not stealthing at all, in BoE greens/blues. It ran the same path over and over again, ignoring mobs that were standing there, waiting to be killed, but instead running over ground without mobs.
Of course, I reported this botter via the usual way: Report Physical Harassment. From conversations with different GMs, it is quite obvious that Blizzard don't like bots any more than we do. Reporting does help, if you mention where you found the bot, when you found it, and how you saw that it was a bot.
My movie about how to recognise bots is going along well. I feel like an amateur for using Windows Movie Maker, but I have no idea what else to use.
Now C'Thun, will tell you more about bots later!
after having found dozens of Beastmaster Hunter bots over the past weeks, it was almost a relief to find an oldschool Rogue bot. I was looking for Gromsblood in the Blasted Lands, when I noticed Moolida, a Night Elf Rogue, botting at the Dunemaul Ogres.
Note that there is a huge difference between farming and botting: farming is the act of repeatedly killing the same mob(s) to obtain xp, reputation or loot, while botting means that you're not controlling your character yourself, but a computer program is controlling your character fully automatically.
Moolida was running around, not stealthing at all, in BoE greens/blues. It ran the same path over and over again, ignoring mobs that were standing there, waiting to be killed, but instead running over ground without mobs.
Of course, I reported this botter via the usual way: Report Physical Harassment. From conversations with different GMs, it is quite obvious that Blizzard don't like bots any more than we do. Reporting does help, if you mention where you found the bot, when you found it, and how you saw that it was a bot.
My movie about how to recognise bots is going along well. I feel like an amateur for using Windows Movie Maker, but I have no idea what else to use.
Now C'Thun, will tell you more about bots later!
