I'm going to gather a couple of stats on the recent bans and try to compile them to possibly see, what is being targeted by Blizzard right now. Fill out the Form and I will make sure to combine the results in the first post. Please don't post in this thread, unless you post about your ban. Discussion Thread: CLICK ME[HR][/HR] 1) SoR Account or Paid Account: 2) EU or US: 3) Last time you botted (Be honest!): 4) Hours/Day you botted: 5) Bot used (Gatherbuddy, BGbuddy, Questing): 6) Custom Profile or Public Profile: 7) Have you been selling gold: [HR][/HR]Please try to keep your posts as compact as possible, so I can gather the information easier. Kind regards, Kjin
SUMMARY Bans counted: 34 Users (239 Accounts) [HR][/HR] Paid: 136 | SoR 103 EU: 237 | US: 2 Gatherbuddy: 236 | Questing: 3 | Grinding: 0 | Dungeons: 0 | Battlegrounds: 0 Custom Profiles: 229 | Public Profiles: 10 [HR][/HR] Hypothesis 1: All accounts were EU, it doesn't matter wheter it is SoR or Paid, mostly GatherBuddy users were banned. Hypothesis 2: HonorBuddy is not detected, it is gathering that is somehow being targeted now. EZbot/Crawlerbot users have been banned as well! Hypothesis 3: Blizzard has been taking very harsh actions against gatherbots during the last week, even long time experienced botters have been hit. => BE CAREFUL ABOUT GATHERBOTTING AT THIS TIME! *UPDATED* 02.05.2013 (incl post #42)
BANNED 1) SoR Account or Paid Account: 2x Paid 2) EU or US: EU 3) Last time you botted (Be honest!): Last Monday 4) Hours/Day you botted: 6-18 5) Bot used (Gatherbuddy, BGbuddy, Questing): Gatherbuddy 6) Custom Profile or Public Profile: Custom 7) Have you been selling gold: not these accounts LIVE: 1) SoR Account or Paid Account: 2x SOR (yea my sor arent banned) 2) EU or US: EU 3) Last time you botted (Be honest!): botting 4) Hours/Day you botted: 6-18 5) Bot used (Gatherbuddy, BGbuddy, Questing): Grindbot 6) Custom Profile or Public Profile: Public 7) Have you been selling gold: Yes
1) SoR Account or Paid Account: Paid 2) EU or US: EU 3) Last time you botted (Be honest!): The day of my ban 25/04/2013 4) Hours/Day you botted: 10+ 5) Bot used (Gatherbuddy, BGbuddy, Questing): GB2 6) Custom Profile or Public Profile: Public 7) Have you been selling gold: No
1) SoR Account or Paid Account: 2x PAID 2) EU or US: EU 3) Last time you botted (Be honest!): Right prior to the bans (last week, at diffrent point of times in the week) 4) Hours/Day you botted: 7 days pr week, 4 hours pr day on one, 8h pr day on the other. 5) Bot used (Gatherbuddy, BGbuddy, Questing): GB2 6) Custom Profile or Public Profile: Custom 7) Have you been selling gold: No
1) SoR Account or Paid Account: 12sor 2 paid 2) EU or US: eu 3) Last time you botted (Be honest!): 16.04 4) Hours/Day you botted: 24 5) Bot used (Gatherbuddy, BGbuddy, Questing): Ezbot 6) Custom Profile or Public Profile: Custom 7) Have you been selling gold:: Yes but on seperate char
1) SoR Account or Paid Account: 40x Paid 2) EU or US: EU 3) Last time you botted (Be honest!): The Day of all my bans. 4) Hours/Day you botted: 15-16h 5) Bot used (Gatherbuddy, BGbuddy, Questing): GB2 6) Custom Profile or Public Profile: Privat 7) Have you been selling gold: ye, but not over my farming accounts.
1) Paid Account 2) EU 3) Last time you botted (Be honest!): 26/4 4) Hours/Day you botted: 20h 5) Bot used (Gatherbuddy, BGbuddy, Questing): Questing 6) Custom Profile or Public Profile: Public Profile 7) Have you been selling gold: No
BANNED 1) SoR Account or Paid Account: 6x Paid 2) EU or US: EU 3) Last time you botted (Be honest!): 18.04 4) Hours/Day you botted: 11 5) Bot used (Gatherbuddy, BGbuddy, Questing): Gatherbuddy 6) Custom Profile or Public Profile: Custom 7) Have you been selling gold: not 4 UNBANNED 2 other not because before got banned long long time ago.
1) SoR Account or Paid Account: 4x Paid 2) EU or US: EU 3) Last time you botted (Be honest!): today 4) Hours/Day you botted: before the ban: 15h/day, today: 2-4 h / day 5) Bot used (Gatherbuddy, BGbuddy, Questing): Gatherbuddy 6) Custom Profile or Public Profile: Custom PAID Profile 7) Have you been selling gold: Yes, but not with that accounts all 4 perma banned all 4 appealed, 72h bans they get caught on 16/4 (2 accs) and 22/4 (2accs), both bans at exact the same time.
1) SoR Account or Paid Account: 1x Paid 2x SoRs 2) EU or US: EU 3) Last time you botted (Be honest!): Night the day before when I was banned 4) Hours/Day you botted: 15h/day 5) Bot used (Gatherbuddy, BGbuddy, Questing): Gatherbuddy 6) Custom Profile or Public Profile: Public 7) Have you been selling gold: Not from these
Updated Post #2 I can already see a certain structure in the bans, read the hypotheses in post #2 for information
1) SoR Account or Paid Account: Paid 2) EU or US: EU 3) Last time you botted (Be honest!): Friday the 26th 4) Hours/Day you botted: Pretty much 24/7. 5) Bot used (Gatherbuddy, BGbuddy, Questing): Questing 6) Custom Profile or Public Profile: Public profile. 7) Have you been selling gold: Nope.
1) SoR Account or Paid Account: RAf account 2) EU or US:EU 3) Last time you botted (Be honest!): 25 april i think 4) Hours/Day you botted: 24/7 5) Bot used (Gatherbuddy, BGbuddy, Questing): GB2 6) Custom Profile or Public Profile: custom and public 7) Have you been selling gold:yep 7/7 banned
1) SoR Account or Paid Account: 7 Paid/7 Sor 2) EU or US: EU 3) Last time you botted (Be honest!): 16.04(Most of them banned in 17.04 after this date whenever i try to farm with new accounts they are also banned after 4-5 hours of mop farming) 4) Hours/Day you botted: 12-16 5) Bot used (Gatherbuddy, BGbuddy, Questing):Gatherbuddy 6) Custom Profile or Public Profile: Both 7) Have you been selling gold: Yes(But gold seller account is not banned)
Ur inaccurate.. you missed one entry where someone was questing. A few minutes later, someone else posted "questing" as well. So GB only, as your summary suggests? Nope.
1) SoR Account or Paid Account: 4x Paid 2) EU or US: EU 3) Last time you botted (Be honest!): 25/4 4) Hours/Day you botted: 20 5) Bot used (Gatherbuddy, BGbuddy, Questing): Gatherbuddy, Questing 6) Custom Profile or Public Profile: Public 7) Have you been selling gold: No
