Guild Wars 2

Legitimate player here just trying to play the game and farm materials to make cool looking weapons – when suddenly a wild bot appears! I won’t name and shame and I won’t post screenshots unless requested, but I checked at a location to farm Corrupted Lodestones (because I hear of this amazing spot to farm them) and lo and behold there is a bot.

i first noticed this guy a few days ago when I went to this area to farm the lodestones I needed and saw this guy there and within 5 minutes I knew he was a bot. Probably less than 5 minutes. So I say, ok I’ll come back later he’s bound to be off by then. So I report him and move on. ~12 hours later I come back (the next day, obviously) and he’s still there..

What the hell? Click report again, follow him around a bit, see him get stuck on small ledges, never dodging once, always using the same skill to kill mobs, and I take some screenshots here and there, report again then leave.

So today 24 hours later I come back and the same guy is still running around there farming. He’s a fire elementalist with a lesser and regular fire elemental and some bird following him around while he spams the first dagger skill on mobs. Running the same path. Over. And over. And over… Even leaving the 1 or 2 odd mobs that are a few extra feet out of his range so he can maintain his “optimal botting route”.

And meanwhile, he’s gathering his lodestones to sell on the TP all the while f___ing over the economy and forcing legitimate players to support their botting habbits. Can’t kill a mob or get drops you need? Buy em from the TP – I’m sure a bot didn’t put it there.

What the hell is going on with the botting situation when bots so obvious as this guy remain in game for this long? I can only assume he was doing it far longer than I noticed as I only found out what I wanted to make 2 days ago (going to make Jormag’s Breath to match my Firey Dragon Sword (dual wield warrior) ).

So here I am 50 lodestones away from my goal and I have 2 options. Farm behind the bot and hopefully get lucky and feel like an idiot leeching off this bot, or buy them from the TP at ungodly prices and support this guy’s botting runs.

So I know there’s a nice big sticky post about what Anet is doing about bots, but really what are they doing if people like this who get spam reported (tons of other people saw and reported this guy and 1 other bot who just showed up today) can remain in the game for days? Weeks? Months???

You must be imagining things bro, we have DR in place to prevent bots!

Rukia.4802:

You must be imagining things bro, we have DR in place to prevent bots!

Oh yeah I forgot to mention that part. Which I also screenshotted (with timestamps, of course). After about an hour of farming the bot randomly logged off mid-combat. ~7 minutes later it was logged back in picking up where it left off.

I imagine this was in an attempt to reset the DR.

Talking about the bots is shunned upon. As Rukia said, there are no bots. I’m pretty sure this thread will get locked.

Hi everyone,

Please do continue reporting bots. It takes time for them to be removed because the team has to be very careful when issuing a ban. Rest assured that they will be eventually removed.

Thanks for your understanding. This thread is closed.