Guild Wars 2

As people should know, botting is not the only thing that may get you banned from GW2. Also forbidden is “extended unattended play”, meaning you leave your character logged in while you are not playing the game, in order for your character to benefit from the time spent ingame (usually in form of automatic participation of events).

I remember a bunch of engineers having been banned long long ago for abusing their turrets in some way, and also rangers are candidates for benefitting from their pets participating in fights automatically even when nobody is controlling the character.

I have seen quite a few people (rangers) parked somewhere (not say where in order to not give anyone a specific idea) for extended periods of time, participating in recurring events while obviously being afk for many hours. Some of them automatically casted their heal on cooldown over and over again for hours, while not moving or doing anything else.

Question: What is the best way to report these “non-played characters”? Do I report them for botting, although they are most likely not using any “bot” third-party program?

A person deliberately setting themselves to gain rewards while being afk is reported through botting/scamming or by sending a report to exploits@arena.net.

Lol so being afk is botting now? Just report exploit and move on.