Guild Wars 2

I’m sure most of us remember a time when most T6 fine crafting materials were dirt cheap due to bots over farming. Then one day in October/November ANet banned a massive amount of them and prices started to rise. When they actually announced they had done this prices exploded (with help from market manipulators no doubt). For example vicious fangs went from costing 30c to 17s in the space of a month.

The bots then returned at some point in December and by the end of the month prices on most of the materials had settled down again (but were much higher than before, probably due to more people crafting their legendary and maybe fewer bots).

ANet have said that they prefer to collect lots of information about bot patterns/behavior before they decide to send out mass bans. So when do you guys think the next ban wave will happen?

Personally I have my suspicions it could already have happened, as in the last several days the demand for certain T6 mats has exceeded the supply which happened just before the last massive price spike. I’m no economy expert though so would be interesting to hear other people’s opinions!

Personally, I don’t think they have been banned yet. The reason for the slow increase of the prices is mostly due to more people going for their Legendary weapon. Just in my guild (around 50 players) 5 are working on legendary while last month, only 1 was. This causes prices of Globs/T6 mats to go up. If the botters were banned, the prices would increase even more, as happened last time.

In a way, I hope they get banned cause they destroy the game, however, the economy is now fairly balanced, so a massive ban-run will destroy the balance.

Armored scales are going to go way up, as are bloods and totems.

Burno.8431:

Personally, I don’t think they have been banned yet. The reason for the slow increase of the prices is mostly due to more people going for their Legendary weapon. Just in my guild (around 50 players) 5 are working on legendary while last month, only 1 was. This causes prices of Globs/T6 mats to go up. If the botters were banned, the prices would increase even more, as happened last time.

In a way, I hope they get banned cause they destroy the game, however, the economy is now fairly balanced, so a massive ban-run will destroy the balance.

Banning them overall makes no difference.

Yes, the prices will shoot up but it also increases the wealth of those who choose to sell T6.

So while a person pursuing their legendary would get shafted, the person farming mats and selling them gets more money. In the end, it balances.

are you sure its bots fault if T6 got cheaper?

I used to buy lot of T6, since i play fractals expecially since last patch i never buy any…..

Underwater gives armored scale
Categorized gives blood
Dredge gives many different

etc etc etc.

i hope they do get banned rather soon. On desolation there’s tons of bots running around again since a few weeks and despite me reporting a ton they are still around, and there seem to be more each day.

And i have to disagree with 2 posts above me that bots help balance the market…bots are cheaters and compete with legitimate players on the tradepost driving prices down so legitimate players might just stop farming since it’s not worth the time.

LordByron.8369:

are you sure its bots fault if T6 got cheaper?

I used to buy lot of T6, since i play fractals expecially since last patch i never buy any…..

Underwater gives armored scale
Categorized gives blood
Dredge gives many different

etc etc etc.

Fractals alone isn’t enough to drop some prices almost as much as 15S.

Powerful Venom Sacs and Elaborate Totems are over 18s each now.

I can confirm bots have been banned in a new wave of bannings.

I was farming Grawls in Frostgorge. Around 5-7 bots were there. Then one day they disappeared. Another group were farming Icebrood Kodans and they disappeared a week or two prior to that.

Burno.8431:

Personally, I don’t think they have been banned yet. The reason for the slow increase of the prices is mostly due to more people going for their Legendary weapon. Just in my guild (around 50 players) 5 are working on legendary while last month, only 1 was. This causes prices of Globs/T6 mats to go up. If the botters were banned, the prices would increase even more, as happened last time.

In a way, I hope they get banned cause they destroy the game, however, the economy is now fairly balanced, so a massive ban-run will destroy the balance.

Yeah you’re probably right about more people now working on their legendary. Or at least people are planning ahead and getting the T6 mats now while they’re cheap. Lots of people might have waited til now to craft an ascended back piece too.

SteepledHat.1345:

Powerful Venom Sacs and Elaborate Totems are over 18s each now.

These two never really got cheaper after the price spike. I’m guessing they must be harder for bots to farm.

I was in lost shores this morning – 5 underwater bots, 4 bots doing the shelks, 4 bots doing karka’s. Amazingly I saw a player doing the jumping puzzle!

Quick trip to frostgorge and my favorite team of bots are still at the grawls – a week after I last reported them.

No sorry, a mass ban hammer has not been waved.

bots have been banned, maybe not all of them but some of them have. I checked frostgorge and it was empty of bots at least in my server.

still lots of bots on desolation, none have been removed from the usual spots.