Guild Wars 2

I can’t help but notice lately how many power-levelling / farming bots I come across on the Maguuma server. Right now, I’m in cursed shore and the entry road is chock full of bots. I likely reported about a dozen, but they still keep operating endlessly…day and night. Some are easy to spot, and some have more variety in their script, so you have to follow them a bit to see their repetitive routine.

My suggestion to ArenaNet is to have some kind of in-game GM that can respond in a timely fashion to botting reports, and chat spam (gold-selling / power-levelling) reports. In my opinion, it increases player morale….and just cuts out that disheartening feeling when you enter an area and you know that there is no human behind the actions of a character. We all generally like to stand up for honesty and just plain civil behaviour in real life, and the game is really no different.

If you don’t come down harsh on botters and they are profiting substantially, then it will only encourage them, and have a detrimental effect on the economy that is very important to the enjoyment of this game.

Honestly, if there was world pvp, the players themselves would be killing them off to show their disdain for this behaviour.

What do others think about this suggestion?

You can always try to kite an angry npc mob over to them and kill them that way!

Don’t allow China IP’s and bots and 95% of the bots would be gone.

The bots in cursed shore die occasionally (because it’s an areas with constant large mob battles……but they have an auto-respawn….not sure how they do it. In other areas, it’s too hard to kill them as they group several rangers together in a area with moas and such. Not enough enemies to kill them, but enough for them to have a constant source of experience / loot. It just needs some attention from Anet…..because aside from the rule-breaking of botting, it’s just an eyesore on the game.

I was in the Fort Aspenwood eternal battleground last night and in the skrit area, there was a train of 20 botted characters running around in a precise path killing the same skrits nonstop for hours despite many of the real players reporting them.