Guild Wars 2

All the botters are ranger with pet “brown bear”.
They circle the area for the repeating quest of the kessex hill infamous bridge event as a giant group.
This is becoming more and more ridiculous as days go by.
Anet do something about this. thx

bot id:
Jess W (Wuliu Z.2751)
Addison Ahern (Lang.4021)
Edmund Eden(Kong.6725)
Byrom Bumell (Ying.1690)
Buck Jj(Kenng.2609)
Donahue Ed (King.1760)
Fend K (Wuba z.7613)

This is INDEED RIDICULOUS! I visited several servers over the past week and found that certain events in Orr (Cursed Shore especially) are so botted, that it is impossible to get a single hit! No drops!
And if we do get drops, they are Porous Bones!
This is the amazing end game content we were promised? Completing 100% of the map, reaching level 80, getting full exotic gear to get the crappiest loot of any mmo I have ever played (EVE, DDO, Shaiya, KoK3, etc)??
I have reported all the bots at events at Shelter’s Waypoint and Jofast Waypoint and they are all still there! I just logged in now and found that there are now over a dozen of them there, it is impossible to do anything there. This game has become only for botters. Honest players who put their time and effort (skill) into it get nothing now.
PUT GMS IN GAME ALREADY!! INSTA-BAN OBVIOUS BOTTERS!!!

Calm down guys. Just submit a support ticket with as much detail as possible. The forums wont bypass the support queue.

I was in Frostgorge Sound yesterday and several areas were full of little armies of identical players. There was one ravine in particular, don’t remember the name of it, where they were running a route back and forth from one end of it to the other like a swarm of bugs.

I’m not confident I can identify a bot so I haven’t reported any of them. They all seemed to be independently moving like a human was at the controls, it was just odd that they all looked exactly alike in a level 80 zone where most of us have made our avatars unique.

If you suspect someone of being a bot, report them. Let support investigate and decide if they actually are botting or if theyre just a legitimate player.

I have indeed reported all the bots I have seen. It is very easy to spot them.
1) they always stay in the same event (or roam in the EXACT same pattern)
2) they sometimes magically teleport to mobs and then teleport back to their starting location
3) they only attack mobs within a limited range, even though human players can see the mobs much further away and move to engage them
4) they NEVER chat or reply to whispers or whenmentiong in chat that they are bots or when asked directly ARE YOU A BOT?
5) they spam F key in events so that every single F activated item or npc gets the command. This causes all npcs in that area to start replying with their usual responses (this happens a lot during bot infested events).
6) sadly, and no racism intended, they are mostly all Chinese (they either have character chinese names or their account names are chinese).

I thought that they were all guildless but they have been adapting and now there are some botting guilds out there. One of them is “lkp” and the other is “war” (in lower case, there is another guild called Warlords which has WAR as their ticket symbol)

However, reporting them has lead to NOWHERE. All bots I have personally reported on seafarer’s rest, blacktide and ring of fire, are still there right now! The first bots I reported were from over a week ago and still there. Most events botted are in Cursed Shore, especially fast multiple mob events like at Shelter’s Gate waypoint and Jofast waypoint. It is so bad today in fact that you can barely get a hit in so you don’t even get drops (never mind that most of the drops nowadays are porous bones thanks to DR which is also thanks to bots)
ANet really has to get GMs into the game to insta-ban them. Simple as that. The game is fast becoming a botter’s paradise, which means that normal players have two options: quit the game (not fun at all anymore) or join the botters. And the DR has only given players more incentive to bot and punishes players who don’t bot (the majority) with lousy drops.

How do you know that arenanet arent doing anything? If they simply banned them ont he spot, it would achieve nothing.

A full investigation has to be performed, and they have to find out how the bot is communicating with the game, then block that hole. Then they need to trace currency/items incase people have been buying from them. It takes time.

I’m pretty sure there’s more options than quitting the game or becoming a botter. You can always ignore the botter or report them while going about your own business.

I would think diminishing returns (I assume that’s what you mean by DR) would only affect the character farming drops and not every player in the zone. If me getting a rare drop prevents you from getting a rare drop, that doesn’t make sense to me.

I don’t think bots are as game-breaking as PvP radar hackers were in DAoC. In that game you really had to either not PvP or become a radar hacker yourself since the Frontier was saturated with stealthers and gank groups running radar.

I think WvW radar is the only thing I’m afraid of, I can work around PvE bots. The last thing I want to deal with (and I won’t) is gank groups chasing solo players around using radar. If that happens I’ll be out of here, WvW is where all my fun is at.

I’ve reported obvious bots, when I run across them. I have not seen them again, however, considering that many were in low level areas, they probably just “matured” to new areas of farming. – ALl the bots I reported, were also teleporting across the areas with such a short cooldown, it was not in any way shape or form possible to achieve with a weapon skill.