Okay, it should be said it wasn't really a surprise these accounts got banned. I have others i bot safe with and a main and bank account that never bot. NEVER GATHER BOT AT THESE AMOUNTS OF TIME, ALL 5 ACCOUNTS STILL MIGHT GET A BAN HAMMER, I set out to really push the envelop, i just used them for the lvl boost on my bank alt account and after that i set out to see what the limits were. in all i had 5 $20 battlechests accounts involved in the experiment and these two were the only ones banned. and i had second accounts at both the 8-10 hours of botting and 18-20 hour of botting the only difference is ones that survived only farmed new mats. Both banned accounts were farming mop and cata mats, and raf'd to the bank alt account. other than that no difference. I'd say either Raf tipped them off or farming in older zones where a lvl 90 sticks out more. It should also be noted that this has been an ongoing process for 2 months straight with this time schedule. and all mats were farmed on the same server and put into a single guild bank where they were broken down by the bank alt account and sold. It should also be noted I should have used 2 more accounts or at least 1 more raf'd that wasn't botting cata mats, to make a more definitive decision if raf played a real role or not. The account they were raf'd to is still going strong posting auctions. These auctions are placed by hand and not with PB like I said it stays clean. Well, as clean as a lvl 90 can be living off of levels given to it by a bot. Accounts used as follows 1. 6-8 hours of botting mop herbs/ore- safe still active still, active still botting 2. 8-10 hours of botting mop herbs/ore- safe still active, still botting 3. 18-20 hours of botting mop herbs/ore- Surprised but still safe and active, still botting (I should add the 18-20 hour accounts were my expected ban accounts my control if you will) 4 (Raf'd). 8-10 hours of botting mop/cata herbs/ore- License Terminated 11/6/14 5(Raf'd). 18-20 hours of botting mop/cata herbs/ore- License Terminated 11/6/14 1)Were you using Honorbuddy, Gatherbuddy or both on the account? Gatherbuddy on both 2)Which version (and Beta or Release)?: 755 3)If so, when was the last time?: that day 4)What profile were you using?: [GB2][N] Ducks Double-Zone 2.4 - Reverse/[GB2][H]Vashj'jir Herbalism v0.0.1 HUGE RUN 5)What combat class were you using? if None Just put Default then the Classname: Singular Hunter/ Singular pally 6)What plugins are you using?: none 7)How many hours per day did you bot for?: a lot some days 18 to 20 on one of the accounts and the other was 8 to 10. 8)What honest percentage of time did you supervise your bot? 50% to 60% 9)How many auctions per day did you have?: on them none 10)Did you Use Any Other Bots, Hacks, or Mods? none 11)Was your account involved in gold selling? no 12)EU or US realm? US 13)Is the banned account a Scroll of Resurrection or an actual paid account? Both were Raf'd to a bank account but that was the only connection to it. (that account is fine and doesn't ever get botted with, it stays clean and holds gold .
You last more then 2 months botting 18/24 with multiple accounts and with gatherbuddy. Honestly most people don't even last a week with gatherbuddy.
Yeah they say that. and i only bot maybe 2 to 3 hours a day with my personal farming bots. but i saw a post once about kamikaze botting and how most all botters are reported and not flagged. But there is clearly a few connections between the 2 they banned that isn't present on the other 3. i really don't think time farming has anything to do with it. rather its location. I can also say that they had only been farming in cata zones for a few weeks. After 6 weeks of no change to any of the accounts I decided to add that as a variable. However despite all of this i will not be increasing how long my normal farming bots run. It might be insight and it is nice 3 are still running. But i am not willing to risk my personal account and my original Vanilla toons. But if your just interested in farming for gold selling i can say without a doubt you can totally run them into the ground and make it worth it when they to finally get banned. im not even going to appeal the ban. its a license ban anyway they just want me to buy a few more accounts.
Why not? The majority of first time bans get overturned to 72hr bans. Just say something along the lines of "I'm a paying customer and getting accused of something like this is an outrage". Just don't admit anything.
After consideration i did file an appeal. But like i said they were going sometime 20 hours a day. I gave them a Sob story and we will see but I'm not that worried and would rather let them go than draw more attention to the remaining 3. or my own accounts.
As of now less than 12 hours after my appeal i have been given both accounts back haha. This is the latest response from Customer Support: Hey there, Thank you for contacting us concerning the recent action taken against your World of Warcraft license. After a thorough review of the circumstances involved in this action, the suspension has been adjust from an account closure to a 72 hour suspension. This is the latest response from Customer Support: Greetings, Thank you for contacting us concerning the recent action taken against the World of Warcraft license WOW1. After a thorough review of the circumstances involved in this action, the license has been reopened and access will be be restored in 72 hours. And they were obviously bots and will go back to running on their designated time schedules tomorrow. the experiment continues. Im not going to post my letter to blizzard here, but i will pm it to parties looking for advice as what to say.
well it could have been them farming in cata zones also. i need 1 more raf account not farming old and mop content. As i stated it could have been that being lvl 90 in a lvl 85 zone made me stand out more. none the less i got them both back and the account they were linked to is still fine. and to clarify both accounts were linked not to one another but a different account all together. one that didn't get banned. Do i think Raf could draw more attention to you? maybe, its all speculation as far as to say it does affect your chances to get banned normally. but if you get reported and are rafed with 3 or 4 other toons yeah it probably increases your chances a bit to get a ban and not just ignored.
I have 8 accounts i bot on. 5 of them got banned (3 unbanned now ) 2 others appealing again When they got banned they got banned together not all at once but 2 at a time and 3 at a time. I' did not receive single bans only bans in groups so in my opionion they do link them. Next time i buy some fresh accs im not gonna link them with raf.
