Report of exploit/botting

roscopatterson

First off, sorry if this is in the wrong section, any mods feel free to move it.

Me and my buddy were playing last night and we discovered some bots in the game. We sat there and watched them go in their loop for well over 30 minutes. We tried to report them in game, but as I will explain, they were spawning and dissapearing so fast we could not copy their handle.

The location was sharandar, in the first zone you enter when you travel there. It was near the Arcan Resovoir entrance. 6 players, 4 lv60 players and 2 players under lv10. They were all on this loop, they would all enter the Arcane resovoir, then instantly exit and re-appear. Then they run to the campfire for 2 seconds and return to the entrance of AR.

No idea what they are accomplishing by doing this, but it's clearly an exploit or they wouldn't have to use bots. This was 6 players botting in tandum, and a few other players were well aware of this already, so i'm upset nothing is being done.

I'm sad I cannot give handles, but staff needs to camp out in sharandar and they will eventully discover players who do this. Happy questing

fantasycharacter

Their solution is to just make things Bind on Pickup.

hustin1

They're keeping the Arcane Reservoir quest open and farming it over and over. Before M5 they were doing it with halfling TR's but apparently something forced them to switch to CW's. They're still a plague, though.

frishter

The topic isn't allowed to be discussed and so will be locked or hidden away. I, however hate that all they've done to 'combat' bots is just make things more annoying or less rewarding for me who wants to earn things fairly.

demonmonger

whats so special about arcane reservoir

frishter

demonmonger wrote: »

whats so special about arcane reservoir

Skill nodes for easy farming afaik.

hfgtfsdfs

There is a skillnode they open and they exits and repeat. Has been like this for months. Cryptic is just epic fail, its been reported over and over and over again. There is like 100s of bots doing this all day long.

lweistardlemon01

thread closed. no discussions of exploit.

HEIL!

iambecks1

fantasycharacter wrote: »

Their solution is to just make things Bind on Pickup.

Sad but true , just a matter of time before they use the botting problem as a weak excuse to bind regular skill node drops , skill node drops and regular enchantment drops are all that is left in regular gameplay that they didn't find some feeble excuse to bind yet , there isn't really much else left that they can use to get their bind everything instead of dealing with the real issues fix from anymore.

sihvebi

I'm not an advocate of such practices. But, out of curiosity, besides simple annoyance, how does this affect somebody else's gameplay?

koalazebra1

sihvebi wrote: »

I'm not an advocate of such practices. But, out of curiosity, besides simple annoyance, how does this affect somebody else's gameplay?

stuffs get bound.

silence1x

sihvebi wrote: »

I'm not an advocate of such practices. But, out of curiosity, besides simple annoyance, how does this affect somebody else's gameplay?

Can't sell stuff that is bound. If you can't earn AD, you can't buy stuff that you want/need which is problematic for those of us on the RNG's naughty list.

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demonmonger

what is a skill node?

been here a year never knew what it was..

pvp node yes.. skill node no..

sexwax45

demonmonger wrote: »

what is a skill node?

been here a year never knew what it was..

pvp node yes.. skill node no..

Things you use a kit to open like a arcane kit opens an arcane skill node.

ogarious

fantasycharacter wrote: »

Their solution is to just make things Bind on Pickup.

That is the worst idea ever. You cant make everything bind on pickup and bind on account. This is a MMO, not a stand alone game.

The solution is for the people producing and running this game to take a active role in policing it. When the punishment for exploiting is a slap on the wrist and suspension the fear of doing it becomes non existent.

Now I was ready to post a list of the exploits in game presently but yeah, that would just make things worse.

I've bugged the ones I've found and reported about the ones that people have told me about.

The economy is pretty much already ruined from the mismanagement of the game. If any devs/mods/GMs want to contact me in game I would love to go into detail about what I've seen. But the reports have all already been sent.

Making everything bind on pickup or bind to account will just kill off the game that is already dying that much quicker.

ryugasirius

sihvebi wrote: »

I'm not an advocate of such practices. But, out of curiosity, besides simple annoyance, how does this affect somebody else's gameplay?

Bots cutting into the profit of honest traders?

lewstelamon01

Please don't discuss wrongdoing or other violations on the forums. Instead, use the support website or the ingame help to report bots or other violators.