Last night, i caught a fellow rogue botting in Terrokkar.
This guy, who frequently inhabits a vent server i go on to speak with my friends, always brags about the amount of gold he has, talks like he knows everything, and acts like a complete jerk.
He belittles people to make himself feel better (this guys only in heroic drops, a few bits of tier four, and wellfare pvp epics, so can barely talk himself) and he's crude, selfish and downright annoying.
There's a group of us, like four-five lads that inhabit this vent channel, and he has managed to piss us all off.
...And he bots.
I'm half tempted to report him. The only reason why I haven't yet is because it probably won't solve anything.
So what is a bot, and why does it affect me?
Well, a 'bot' is a player who is using a program (illegal to blizzards terms and agreements) to do the work for him, such as farming, leveling and pvp.
How does this affect me? It does in many many ways. First of all are the farm bots. They take your nodes you're trying to find, and sell things on the AH, cutting your hard earned prices. In a nutshell, some selfish plank is getting gold for stealing your resources, and isn't even putting in the effort!
Next are the pvp bots. These affect you by going into battlegrounds and standing there, leeching honour points. They aren't fighting, so they lower your chances of winning a battleground, and therefore missing out on more honour and badges.
Now we come to the levelling bots, these grind mobs in (usually) quiet places to level their charracter. This affects you by farming mobs you might need for quests, they find blues so they get gold, and they don't learn how to play because they don't actually level themselves. (meaning wipes in instances and poorly geared players)
How can i prevent this? -You can report them. Simply open a Gm ticket, and tell the what the bot is called, the time you spotted them, and where.
Botting isn't cool. There's no proper excuse for it, and it's like taking the piss out of fellow wow players.
So, Sóulráven, level 70 rogue of EU Bronzebeard server, you get named and shamed not only for fish botting and gather botting, but for being an asshole too!
His armory:
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Bronzebeard&n=S%C3%B3ulr%C3%A1ven
Awryn
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I ALWAYS report bots.
Report him - it ruins the game economy and quests and from a purely selfish perspective our ability to gather materials used for playing the game.
My other rogue is on a pvp server (alliance) and I actively sought out bots (horde) and farmed their damn arses (while reporting them) - free honor kills of bots and at the same time you destroy their game - haha!!
report ftw - I hate bots with a passion - especially the ones in Battlegrounds - I WISH Blizzard would start every game with all the people flagged, and you have 5 minutes to clear the flag or it stays.
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