Guild Wars 2

I happen to see a post where a user was banned for farming in Orr (botting). I like to farm the same areas too (all 80 mobs, lots of events etc). How can us legitimate people avoid getting banned? Are we not allowed to kill things in the same area daily?

Thanks

From my understanding when it comes to bot reports a GM is suppose to look in on those accused players and make the determination. I could be wrong, but pretty sure I’ve read that somewhere on the forums, posted by a member of Anet. Whether they do that or not, I don’t know.

I’ve ran across a couple botters in Orr, moving in a very small scripted path while farming certain elementals when we held specific temples. It’s blatantly obvious what they were doing. Watched them for about 45 minutes before I left, came back 3 hours later and upon my arrival 1 quickly logged out and the other tried inviting me to a party and then left the area. Told him there’s no way I’d group with him because of what I had watched him do previously.

So while I know there are cases of “mistaken identity” there are also a lot of cases of people botting, like above that probably get banned and think that they can get away with it.

My general rule of thumb is, when and if I plan to try and farm anything in the open world, I’m completely random in everything I do, because some players are just lazy and don’t take the time to make an informed decision before they mash that report button as well as I’m sure GM’s don’t fly in to actually verify every report.

In short, yes we are allowed, you shouldn’t be banned. But go forth and expect it and you won’t be disappointed lol.

Have you seen how many players are in Orr? Especially when farming shelter/pen?

Now ask yourself, if you weren’t a bot, why would Arenanet ban all those people?

More than likely that guy was a botter. If I wanted to bot, and got caught, I would dispute it and absolutely say that I was not botting, just to insert some doubt.