Guild Wars 2

Been a few posts here and there about the teleporting harvesting bots and even one by devs admitting how hard it is to report them since they disappear so quickly.

I’m sure others are doing the same as me but wanted to share how I have been catching them.

Take a screen shot.

After that you can see the botters name in the screen shot and give them a whisper in game.

Once you gave them a whisper their name is in the chat box and you can now right click and report them.

Gotta catch them all, enjoy!

I was wondering wth those were when I go up to farm a node and the flash of a character would appear near it and be gone.

I thought this was desync or lag.

Unfortunately not lag or something innocent.

I have 10 user names on block right now and I reported them for botting after sitting at a rich iron ore node for the last 30 minutes.

Some of them die while trying to harvest so I have a small laugh to myself, but I really think Anet should make a node unreachable and then seeing if these bots can farm it. If they can they just self identified and then ban/disable any account that accesses that node.

Saw a few of those bots in Sea of Sorrows and a few of them have guild belong to one of the top pve guild. Seems like the 3rd party program are use by players. There is also another teleporting bot that farms Barracudas at South Sun Cove.

i saw a few naked bots tp farming nodes around Melchor’s Leap,
i got to report a few because they had normal names that i could remember.
they seemed to be normal players using botware.
the bots arent some “evil invasion of chinese” or other somesuch conspiracy,
they are just lazy players who want more gold and dont want to play/pay for it.

Just because they are not some “evil invasion of ____(insert your demographic here)” does not make it wrong and detrimental to the economy of the game as well as give unfair advantages against players that do not bot.

On a side note, I have been out catching bots again today and I noticed it last night but didn’t pay attention to it until now.

What seems to happen is that names will flicker for a split second point blank on my screen. I think this is an artifact on how these players are teleporting around. Happens so fast I can’t screenshot it but if I were to fraps it I am sure I could get it.

Check it out yourselves, stand by a node and wait for a few minutes and you will see huge text flash in front of your screen.