I have read all kinds of posts regarding grinding and how they have scripts that trigger autobans etc. How common is this? I'm curious because I have HB grind the slateskins in Mistfall. Also why is it more easily detectable? Does it have to do with the frequency that a botted toon returns to a hotspot hard coded into the profile used?
Prob more the ammount of kills in certain areas nobody knows for sure except blizzard but I think it would be just a simple zone and then the ammount of mobs you've killed in it with the exception to lvl1 etc mobs if it's for example 100 an hour and you keep botting it for 24hours a day 7 days a week the system would trigger a autoban. It's all just guesswork but you can be pretty sure they have a system for it and that botting 24hours a day for weeks is likely gonna trigger a autoban sooner then later. A few hours a day shoulden't trigger a autoban but I cannot guarantee that. Numbers are easier then patterns but that's just what I think if I know someone is in the same area for 24 hours a day 7 days a week and grinding 100 mobs per hour then I don't need to check his patterns.
Grinding is perfectly safe (get ready for people to slam me down on this but hear me out). I had a hunter that I used to grind sky shards. I ran it for 8 hours a day in a small area in vale of eternal (pre-patch 5.3) and monitored it around 10% of the time, only checking via remote access on my phone at work to make sure it wasn't doing anything stupid or if I felt something wasn't right so I could close it down. After 2 weeks I had all my sky shards and no ban after killing thousands of the same mob over and over. I think the best way to put grinding is that it's only as safe as you make it. If you have a profile that clips on objects, small hot point spots, bad monitoring etc then it becomes a problem of player reports.
