if you are smart with bg botting, you can get away with it. i've been botting for a day now. my toon gets at least 1 kb each bg. so it doesnt look like i am botting. Just looks like he is aweful
a guildy of mine used to bot. he and some other ppl he knew were really good coders, so they just made an insane bot. we used to do premade wsg w/ a 10 man, so we'd always get up against other premade 10 mans, esp cause it was a wsg weekend.
his bot was so ridiculous that, as an enh sham, we didn't mind leaving him solo to defend flag. we knew we would get it back if it got away from our base, but i'd say about 90% of the time, the enemy flag capper was dead and the flag returned w/in 20-30 seconds of the flag being picked up. he'd come back from being out most of the day and have an extra 10k+ honor just sitting on his char
I used regular old.. well I wont advertise but its a pretty common one. On an alt rogue I just hit 70 about 3 weeks ago with greens and botted on and off since then. I would usually play during the evenings so I only ran it during the day or while i was asleep. Nothing special it ported to base and ran into walls. Stealth is pretty nice though. I had shadowstep and sap as my actions which is pretty hilarious just to sit and watch. Since hitting 70 I have full merc and guardians/vindicators now.
In that whole time I've only been whispered 3 times (it takes screenshots) in regards to being afk and once was to apologize to my bot for marking me afk when i was clearly shs sapping like a pro.
People are only pissed about bots in mmos because it affects them directly or makes the long meaningless grind they did legit, even more meaningless. Don't try to tell me its about morals, like botters are horrible people while most "legit" players log off and go watch/listen to their stolen movies/music or passively agreed to free loot while exploiting a boss or terrain at some point in their wow career.
I play BGs for fun all the time too, but I dont see why I can't benefit for my off time aswell. as my current alt has proven the prevention is pretty shoddy at best so if blizzard doesnt care enough to improve it, I dont care enough to not exploit it.
I used regular old.. well I wont advertise but its a pretty common one. On an alt rogue I just hit 70 about 3 weeks ago with greens and botted on and off since then. I would usually play during the evenings so I only ran it during the day or while i was asleep. Nothing special it ported to base and ran into walls. Stealth is pretty nice though. I had shadowstep and sap as my actions which is pretty hilarious just to sit and watch. Since hitting 70 I have full merc and guardians/vindicators now.
In that whole time I've only been whispered 3 times (it takes screenshots) in regards to being afk and once was to apologize to my bot for marking me afk when i was clearly shs sapping like a pro.
People are only pissed about bots in mmos because it affects them directly or makes the long meaningless grind they did legit, even more meaningless. Don't try to tell me its about morals, like botters are horrible people while most "legit" players log off and go watch/listen to their stolen movies/music or passively agreed to free loot while exploiting a boss or terrain at some point in their wow career.
I play BGs for fun all the time too, but I dont see why I can't benefit for my off time aswell. as my current alt has proven the prevention is pretty shoddy at best so if blizzard doesnt care enough to improve it, I dont care enough to not exploit it.
Actually you get time bans before account closure, anyone who says they got account closed with no warning for botting BGs are full of shit or don't read their emails. There is no "ban wave", the term came about in regards to win trading for which there became a large number and was suddenly being dealt with resulting in a wave as it did with glider. There's no random inspection and they definitely don't write your name down and wait till they hit some magic number to ban you.
Sorry if i came off as 'sticking it to the man', but the OP said "Controversial" botting, so I thought I should post something in regards to the controversy (or lack of, imo). I was however wearing my Che Guevara t-shirt when i wrote it.
The only problem is you get banned eventually and it seems kind of counter productive
nope im right. unless you use glide or other elaborate bots which use waypoints etc you will always get a warning. If you read any bg bot forums its pages of people getting 3/24/72 hour bans.
I doubt the ban wave shelled out a bunch of 3/24/72 hour bans. Sorry, che but they never warned any of the last losers crying about bans. I'm a cheapskate and can't search the forums (you can relate) otherwise I'd post a nice list of threads here for you to read up on.
lol @ wow gambling though
Sure I guess you can call just about anything a gamble. That said, you've showed your lack of care for your own money/time. Maybe you should apply it to this forum and stop caring what we think and consequently stop posting inane shit.
I'm sure your pride will get the better of you but if it doesn't then we'd all love an update thread some time in the future about your inevitable ban. I just love saying 'I told you so'