Botters and loot scaling...
I was thinking, since loot now scales with party size (most of it), wouldn't it be smarter to farm with 8 people, even if 7 were afk? You might be thinking, "Yeah, but I still only get 1/8 of the drops". True, unless you had 8 accounts.
Now.... Who has 8+ accounts? Botters. They could easily log on to 7 accounts on one machine, and have another for the active farmer, solo, then have each account pick up their respective loot... They are then getting all of the loot, plus the bonus from hard mode.
They would of course have 7 accounts idle, but they would save on 1.) labor, as one person could solo(provided its a pro farmer not a bot) 2.) processing power, since only one machine has to be able to play at a reasonable level. 3.) This might also reduce the risk of bans on accounts, since really only one account is a bot to a noticable degree. The others just pick up loot.
I'm sure they've thought of this, it is their livelihood afterall... Just a thought.
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