I just had all my 3 of 3 diablo 3 accounts banned for boting . The Interesting thing is that I haven't been using them for a month. In the mean time I've been boting WOW via HonorBuddy. All 3 accounts were using individual I*P*s on individual V@M@wa@re guests. They were run less than 18h/day. Now, my WOW accounts are on the same battlenet accounts with my old, banned D3 toons. I understood that the team handling D3 boting and bans is diferent from the WOW team. Should I expect a full ban on my WOW accounts? Has anybody experienced a similar situation?
you can expect wow bans when they detect you botting wow. not because the accounts are on same battlenet as banned D3s
They may still help when trying to link "known" accounts to each other. DB wave was strictly due to a botting pattern being detected amongst thousands of players and banning them for it. It's very clear that they discovered the pattern atleast a month ago and have been building a list of users and when it reached their target they brought down the hammer.
I agree. While the accounts were on different I.P.s. and on diff. virtual computers, I did transfer gold and items from one toon to another quite often, so if one toon got flagged blizz would have no trouble linking it to the rest. On WOW however, if you have one account per faction on a given number of servers, the toons you bot will not have to interact ingame in any way. In this case I belive that having multiple I.P.s can help you - in the sense that they won't be able to link your accounts so easy.
There is no way to stop people from firmly believing in 99 theories about how blizz finds botters. I'll just say I've never seen ANY evidence that people get banned based on: MAC address, IP, paypal, credit card info, physical address, email, last name or anything similar. There's not even any evidence they ban for "too many auctions", sending too much gold or herbs, sending CODs, trading, etc. It's all just fantasy, and amazingly dumb fantasy as well, as if Blizz just bans random innocent players that happen to log in from some internet cafe or their shared dorm room router that had a botter one time months ago. There are 10,000s of non-botters than have millions of gold, mail 1000s of stacks, list and relist 1000s of auctions per day FOR YEARS, are online 24/7 etc etc and not one of them has ever been banned. The most obvious and clear proof is that you can have a main WOW1 acct (non-botting) plus numerous bot accounts (WOW2, etc) *on same battle.net*, and only the bot accounts will ever get banned. They don't need your IP or freaking hardware ID, *by definition* the same person owns all accounts on a battlenet, yet they don't touch the ones that aren't detected specifically for botting. no matter how much they mail each other, trade gold or anything else. The only argument one can make is that they somehow monitor associated account more, hoping to catch them botting. yeah maybe, i've never seen any sign of that either. I've had brand new accounts not connected to anything go down fast, and other accounts on same battlenet as 4 other banned bots survive forever.
Wise words. We can only make one assumption - 24/7 botting is the most dangerous - even if there is no uptime-checking script (no evidence for or against that), the more you're online, the more time you have to get reported by other players, and that's the biggest threat.
