Curse

MasterThrawn · Mar 17, 2006, 04:48 PM // 16:48

I had something weird happen to me a while back. To Monks blind invite me - and I accept just to see what they're up to. Next thing I know we are in Underworld and they are not responding to anything I ask them. Now they both died really quickly, so I don't get that. Than we go back - I was about to leave - than all of the sudden we're back in again. They die again - still not saying anything. Weird - I just left, but not sure what that was about....

Tarkin · Mar 17, 2006, 04:55 PM // 16:55

I see bot monks in fow... sometime ago... funny... 55h bots monks... dont answer ofenses... dont answer nothing... follow you like a hench...

coldplay · Mar 17, 2006, 05:06 PM // 17:06

bots are running in UW and troll farming. I've got it confirmed from sweatshop farmers

Scutilla · Mar 17, 2006, 05:10 PM // 17:10

Good thing I always discuss builds with the other monks before going into something like FoW or Tombs- I think a couple minutes of talking at an unresponsive person would be a pretty big hint that he's a bot. (And no, I don't do the evil that is Barrageway.)

I'm counting the days until ANet puts a Kephet-like botkiller in Talus Chute... Droks Int 1 is crazy, just bots running in and out of Talus and spamming Local with trade offers in Chinese.

Diablo™ · Mar 17, 2006, 05:35 PM // 17:35

Bots really do get on my nerves. But if you guys are ever bored, and decided to screw with them... go to Drok's int 1, wait at the town door, and invite one of these "suspicious" looking monk names into your party. Sooner or later, when one of these monks join your party, jump outside to Talus Chute immediately, if they're truly a bot, they will automatically begin the mending, balthazar spirit, and protective spirit process. If they decide to go ahead and farm, cast Vital Blessing on them and screw up their 55 hp. Once they're dead, continously ressurect them, with only 1 hp left they die again instantly again and again. As long as you have this bot dead on the floor, he's not out ruining someone else's game. Sooner or later he'll just map out, but not for a while. When he does, go back to town, rinse and repeat.

Then again, you have to be really, hellishly bored to do this. But I tell ya, it was fun to watch a bot getting slaughtered again and again. They have no idea how to stop you from casting Vital Blessing on them.

Of course we could've just reported them, but since Anet isn't getting rid of these bots any sooner, I'd figured disrupting this bot's farming run might just help other people find legitimate monks easier. Imagine if all that anti-bot protestors did this instead, imagine if everyone did this instead...

TalonTheCat · Mar 17, 2006, 05:44 PM // 17:44

How do bots join parties? Solo I can see.

Young Hero · Mar 17, 2006, 05:55 PM // 17:55

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Originally Posted by Diablo™

Bots really do get on my nerves. But if you guys are ever bored, and decided to screw with them... go to Drok's int 1, wait at the town door, and invite one of these "suspicious" looking monk names into your party. Sooner or later, when one of these monks join your party, jump outside to Talus Chute immediately, if they're truly a bot, they will automatically begin the mending, balthazar spirit, and protective spirit process. If they decide to go ahead and farm, cast Vital Blessing on them and screw up their 55 hp. Once they're dead, continously ressurect them, with only 1 hp left they die again instantly again and again. As long as you have this bot dead on the floor, he's not out ruining someone else's game. Sooner or later he'll just map out, but not for a while. When he does, go back to town, rinse and repeat.

Then again, you have to be really, hellishly bored to do this. But I tell ya, it was fun to watch a bot getting slaughtered again and again. They have no idea how to stop you from casting Vital Blessing on them.

Of course we could've just reported them, but since Anet isn't getting rid of these bots any sooner, I'd figured disrupting this bot's farming run might just help other people find legitimate monks easier. Imagine if all that anti-bot protestors did this instead, imagine if everyone did this instead...

lol thats great, gonna give it a try

Diablo™ · Mar 17, 2006, 06:04 PM // 18:04

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Originally Posted by TalonTheCat

How do bots join parties? Solo I can see.

Its true, they normally dont, and they just run outside to solo. But sometimes these bots would just stand there spamming their jibberish sales:
"wo mai jin wu chi 3k"

That's when you invite them, they'll think you're a potential customer and accept your invitation. When they do, jump outside, since those stupid botters cant tell the difference between sales mode and farm mode, they automatically go into soloing mode casting all the enchantments and darting off to get killed

Sometimes you might get an asian farmer instead, they might try to say something thats impossible to read, but believe it or not, they act pretty much bottish too. Once outside they too go into soloing mode. Which is best that you follow them closely behind, and WAIT until the last second before they enter combat, do you cast Vital Blessing on them! It's like saying "SUPPLIES!" lol.

Tarkin · Mar 17, 2006, 06:12 PM // 18:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by Diablo™

Its true, they normally dont, and they just run outside to solo. But sometimes these bots would just stand there spamming their jibberish sales:
"wo mai jin wu chi 3k"

That's when you invite them, they'll think you're a potential customer and accept your invitation. When they do, jump outside, since those stupid botters cant tell the difference between sales mode and farm mode, they automatically go into soloing mode casting all the enchantments and darting off to get killed

Sometimes you might get an asian farmer instead, they might try to say something thats impossible to read, but believe it or not, they act pretty much bottish too. Once outside they too go into soloing mode. Which is best that you follow them closely behind, and WAIT until the last second before they enter combat, do you cast Vital Blessing on them! It's like saying "SUPPLIES!" lol.

Good... very good...

i will try this...

Young Hero · Mar 17, 2006, 06:36 PM // 18:36

Ok got a bot to join me, watch her solo arcavia and all the trolls.Then came the giants, she follow me like a hench.I broke aggro and Giants owned her.I'am thinking the knockdowns prevented her from casting Prot Spirit.Gonna try this again later but very strange overall.

Diablo™ · Mar 17, 2006, 06:42 PM // 18:42

lol ya some of those bots just straight up suck. I use to think they had at least 50% success rate, turns out they're worse. I guess that's a big comforting to know

Iciris · Mar 17, 2006, 07:19 PM // 19:19

what exactly is a "bot"

and the koreans in int d1 droks.. there "bots"? and not real ppl?

plz tell me what exactly a bot is......

Farmermancer · Mar 17, 2006, 07:47 PM // 19:47

Diablo 2 was much worst... Blizzard simply didn't care and had GFraizer balance the entire game soon after the expansion was released. General Blizzard trend seems to be make a great initial games base, bring out imbalanced expansions.

Heres what I think is going to happen, nothing for about another month... then boom! once factions is released... a new "momma" Tengu, with her 20 Avicara Guiles will make that cave their new home.

What would be even funnier is for a chinese farmer to run into that cave and all of sudden see nothing but a level 31 Stone Summit Heretic wandering around, with the words "YOU BUY 250 Extinct Mountain Troll Tusks for 6k OK?" above his head.

PS: 95% of the farmers in Droks Internation 1 are chinese... I know since I speak pin yin.

TheMosesPHD · Mar 17, 2006, 07:48 PM // 19:48

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Originally Posted by MasterThrawn

I had something weird happen to me a while back. To Monks blind invite me - and I accept just to see what they're up to. Next thing I know we are in Underworld and they are not responding to anything I ask them. Now they both died really quickly, so I don't get that. Than we go back - I was about to leave - than all of the sudden we're back in again. They die again - still not saying anything. Weird - I just left, but not sure what that was about....

Maybe they wanted you to res them or something, and they died to lower their HP. That's gotta be a pretty terrible bot though imo. If it wastes 1k over and over on the off-chance that the random invite will res them :P

TheMosesPHD · Mar 17, 2006, 07:50 PM // 19:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by Diablo™

Its true, they normally dont, and they just run outside to solo. But sometimes these bots would just stand there spamming their jibberish sales:
"wo mai jin wu chi 3k"

That's when you invite them, they'll think you're a potential customer and accept your invitation. When they do, jump outside, since those stupid botters cant tell the difference between sales mode and farm mode, they automatically go into soloing mode casting all the enchantments and darting off to get killed

Sometimes you might get an asian farmer instead, they might try to say something thats impossible to read, but believe it or not, they act pretty much bottish too. Once outside they too go into soloing mode. Which is best that you follow them closely behind, and WAIT until the last second before they enter combat, do you cast Vital Blessing on them! It's like saying "SUPPLIES!" lol.

Thank you

I managed to do the Vital Blessing thing once to a bot after random inviting all the ones that were running at the door, but it's good to know there is a strategic way to ruin their farming faster

Melkor_The_First · Mar 17, 2006, 10:18 PM // 22:18

Im actually stealing their loot, lol its fun

EDIT - A nice way to be powerleveled too

My Sweet Revenga · Mar 17, 2006, 11:00 PM // 23:00

Holy heavens I never thought about trying this. Here I always steered clear of bots because of what they stood for. But now that you guys point this out, I could have some real fun with these things lol! I hereby decree this...... BOT KITING!!!!! unless of course anybody else has a better definition

this sounds almost as fun as that WOW video where some guys kited a high level monster all the way back to a newbie town to watch the carnage bwahahaha

Melkor_The_First · Mar 17, 2006, 11:17 PM // 23:17

How about, Exploiting A Exploit?

Diablo™ · Mar 17, 2006, 11:38 PM // 23:38

Glad you guys didn't think I was pathetically bored to be screwing around bunch of bots

Dr Ripley · Mar 17, 2006, 11:55 PM // 23:55

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Originally Posted by Melkor_The_First

Im actually stealing their loot, lol its fun

EDIT - A nice way to be powerleveled too

LOL!! Now watch. You'll start seeing a huge group of bots next to the door at droks... right next to a large line of live players waiting their turn in line to leech off of them. Either that or:

Random farmer: "Who's that with you in your party right now?"
Random farmer#2: "Oh? Him? That's my bot companion. He's been my personal slave for awhile now. He doesn't talk much, but he farms like no tomorrow!"