hi, I just got banned my account and it will still be two days, I want to know how blizzard know that we use a bot? because they can see that we use a program that manage our character? they know only on the connection time? or messages that are not answered? anyways I want to know how they manage to spot us, because i want to continue HB without permaban if possible ^^ thank you for reading, good night
No one knows for sure, but I'm quite certain Blizzard can easily tell if you are using a bot. If they wanted to they could likely mass ban all of us at once, but it appears to be their policy to only do manual account bans. There are two scenarios where a ban typically occurs. Number 1 is when someone reports you, and number 2 is when you are rolling a bit too hard and pop up on their radar. Being logged in for extreme periods of time, running massive amounts of auctions, and various other things seem to flag your account for investigation. The reason I suspect they can easily tell if you are running a bot is because I have had accounts banned before. A GM does not come over and ask if you are there or give you some type of test to see if you are a bot or a real person. You will likely never have any contact with the GM. They will pull up your account and there is some information that they can review to tell if a bot is being used. I think the only reason Blizzard doesn't do a mass ban on accounts is because of the amount of revenue they would lose. Most botters run multiple accounts. I would hate to throw out estimates, but I would guess a sizable amount of the wow population is botters. They seem to only ban you if you go crazy with botting or you annoy someone with your botting. I believe there is one exception to this. I suspect using bots in arenas will immediately flag your account for investigation. The only ban I have ever received was immediately after botting in an arena for the first time. I used the auto follow bot. I can't remember what it is called, but I set the second account to just follow and assist my main account while I actively played that one. I did 3-4 arenas and logged off both accounts. The next morning the secondary account was banned.
If you dont bot to hard ( After Ban 15hours farming isnt clever) you can continue botting but beware: your risk is very high now. Dont use GB if you want to keep your account..
To reiterate, don't use GB at all. It's so obvious that someone is a botter by looking at it and you'll get the obvious idiot who'll report you regardless.
There is no software related ban/detection. - Player reports - 24/7 botting (or everything close to it) - Always doing the same (char logs in, farms 16 hours, logs out) - AH abuse - Pattern analysis, this has never been confirmed but i am pretty sure they do. (Running/farming in circles doing passing exact the same waypoints over and over again) Most people bot with their main accounts and think "it won't happen to me". Then it happens and they freak out with "got banned help me plx plx" threads. Basic rule, don't bot on an account where you care about losing it. Easy as it is. If you got 72h susp. don't continue botting at all. If it is a farm account, stop it for some time, do regular things, chat with people, do some dungeons & lfr and start with a little farming (1-4hrs/day). It is all about randomization, like simulation a human mood. Nobody collects stuff for 10 hours straight. Just split things up, create more complex login behaviours, switch to other characters more often, send collected stuff to another one, craft something, log back continue farming and so on. It is pretty simple.
I have only one account, i use bot since glider and after that pirox and aways the same account... Do as Dasoul says and you be fine....
Try again! I got several GB2 accounts, which was 99% used for pure botting, most of them had closed/72h suspended at least 2 times, and are still alive. But I have 2 or 3 which had already 3x bans, but the keyword here is: the bans had happend with at least 6 months between them, so it seems Blizz keep several months record for the bans. Of course they can and should see if they have suspended or banned you a year ago, but it seems their policy for account closure include having previous suspensions/bans in the last several months, I guess 6 months or so! Last month got closure for an account, which had botted for almost 2 years GB2 without single suspension, but got 2nd suspensions in row in the last month for it, so I must call it finally.
