Guild Wars 2

What is anets official stance on AFK botting via minions, or macro spamming a single aoe attack? There are several spots just utterly infested with bots ruining the economy. If a dev wants to message me ingame i can point them out. Don’t want more people doing this if i publicly list the spots.

Perhaps that is the key then, post here and reddit so that so many of them come there that it ruins it ( along with market)….

Have there ever been posts by anet regarding this?

Just report them in-game and move on.

As stated above report them and let Anet sort it out. Here is a post from Anet about this issue since you asked:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Please-a-clear-statement-re-AFK-farming/page/6#post6161450

I’ll pitch in on this thread, as there seems to be some confusion about this situation.

The auto-cast feature was never intended to be used as an AFK farming mechanism, and usage of the auto-cast feature while AFK is fine as long as it is not used to facilitate unattended gameplay.

Mastery auto-loot also stopping players from being flagged afk seems like a bug instead of a feature, and I’ll be sure to bring it up today while we have a chat about this internally.

1) Using skill (1 or more) while AFK
2) AFKing in a place where it is beneficial for your character to be at
3) Unresponsive to interaction with GMs

If all 3 of these apply to what you are doing, you may get actioned for it.

thnx for the replies.