Banned account. Never Botted with it! All Hand Leveling and Grinding!

Just as the title says. I started a new account a few months ago after the massive banwave when I had 2 accounts banned. Started a new account on the same battle.net as the others so i could still use all my battle.net bound items. NEVER botted once with this new account!! However, it seems it's guilty by association! I'll be trying to reverse this decision...though I know it's nearly impossible. Fuck you Blizzard!

 

It would be interesting to read the news on the appeal. You have all your rights, as long as never attached 3rd party on it.

Good luck!

 

I just submitted my appeal. should hear back in 24-48 hours. I'll post what they respond with. I'm not hopeful, but genuinely upset since I never actually botted with this new account....

 

On a side note. I've never attempted to repeal a banned account before since I new I was actually breaking the Blizzard ToS. If I get caught, I'll own it! But this time...it's personal. *Que dramatic music*

 

*UPDATE*

I heard back from Blizzard and the ban on my account still stands. After the initial ban wave a few months ago, I delete HB completely off my computer including any remaining folders or registries. I never botted on my new account, however it was on the same battle.net account as the other banned accounts I had. Apparently my new account was banned by association. I have never used any other bots besides HB.

 

Strange I have seen on here some peoples accounts have been banned yet some aren't on their bnet account. Looks like you haft to make an new bnet account.
The way the system works it's a bit all over the place. Was your ban 6monthly or permanent.

 

Perma ban

 

I guess, you have to contact senior game masters to handle your issue.

Unless they are too brainwashed, something I really doubt, they have to act properly.

Btw, the ban for association is usually placed for accounts, indirectly related to gold-trading. Already had one Scarab Lord account banned for this reason in the past. But I guess, they had "hard evidences", since I have sold quite a few gold recently back then, so it was mission impossible to recover it.
The sad part was, that their manual investigation was triggered by player reports, stacked on another 3x licenses, reckless farming Uldum / Twilight Highlands with GB2, back in Cata - all 3x within the same battle.net account. And 2 of these 3 reckless accounts are still up, 4 years later. 1 is active, other is on 6m suspension since 13.5.

So the whole battle.net ban by association to something is really not likely in your case.

Unless you were gold-trading, your ban should be 99% false-positive.

 

If you check recent ban reports, there are a couple of "ban by association" cases. And, just like in this thread's OP, it doesn't sound like they were gold sellers, at all.

Devoted gold sellers accept their bans, but whenever a ban wave comes they do all kind of stuff to clean any possible links to their old accounts - comps - IPs. I've heard about someone who actually sells his comps and buy 2nd hand ones whenever he is banned, sound excessive but who knows!

@Op: Sorry for your loss, even though that account was never botted on....was it on a botting guild with privileges to withdraw gold? or something along those lines.

Anyway, being lazy and being a botter aren't the same. Stop using same battlenet, format your pc upon banwaves. New wow installation for each bot. It takes time, but it could have helped avoiding this ban.

Many people will try to claim all the tinfoil stuff have no effect. Well, they can try to convince themselves, that's easy because it's a pain in the ass doing all the procedures; but in the end , it's all about being lazy. Even in the case nothing helped (software detection) it actually provides firepower for claiming "my account was hacked" in the appeal.

 

Never sold or bought gold on my new account or the old accounts that were banned for botting. Even on my old accounts that were banned a few months ago, I never ran gold farming scripts or afk'd. All I did was use CR's to lvl characters with.

 

I've been botting wow pretty much since the very first bot ever existed. Never used glider though...amateur hour bot there. Have had dozens of accounts banned for botting and never even bothered to try to get them back. My fault for starting a new account on a battle.net that has had several other accounts on it banned, lol. I do have have backup accounts though. I always cover my ass so I never really lose any gold, or farmed items. Just the stuff that happens to be on that particular toon and is soulbound. I've been at this a long time and have discovered ways to keep my in game stuff fairly safe. This was just the first time I never actually botted an account, but still got banned! LOL