Well I was levelling my alt Shaman in Feralas one day, when I stumbled across this botter. On our unofficial server forums a guy had come up with an idea to make or gather loads of throwable items and throw them at botters to clog up their inventory, preventing them from getting any gold (the leatherworking balls I used were 5 copper a piece). I didn't have anything better to do with my leather than to make these balls, and I can't help but love to bug my biggest WoW pet peeve, botters, so then the "fun" began...
Haha well I am probably sad, but when I get "hooked" by a responding botter, I tend to make it a patience game where I won't let it go until they log out (unless I have raiding to do or something like that of course). With many botters I've taken it so far that they seem to put a proximity warning on my arse where they log out when I'm close on one of the chars I bug them with.
I only did this ball throwing once, since it's actually quite a lot of heavy leather you need to get a sizable amount of balls. My favourite way to bug botters is to pain train them in areas where mobs are close together, and then take off on my flying mount.
Sad yeah, but I get a weird sense of joy out of it!
Well I beg to differ. I've seen plenty of these server pests to know one when I see one.
"Headless chicken movement" as I call it, is pretty easy to spot. Once they act "human", it's because the bot handler, who is probably controlling 20 computers that run bot programs, comes to the keyboard. The new trend among botters is also to /wave at people when they pass by, to seem "human", and then it's back to being a headless chicken.
I only did this ball throwing once, since it's actually quite a lot of heavy leather you need to get a sizable amount of balls. My favourite way to bug botters is to pain train them in areas where mobs are close together, and then take off on my flying mount.
Sad yeah, but I get a weird sense of joy out of it!
"Headless chicken movement" as I call it, is pretty easy to spot. Once they act "human", it's because the bot handler, who is probably controlling 20 computers that run bot programs, comes to the keyboard. The new trend among botters is also to /wave at people when they pass by, to seem "human", and then it's back to being a headless chicken.