Still amazed at how many people are dumb enough to assume they are safe because not everyone was banned at the same time.
Just like religion, simple people will tell themselves whatever they can to convince themselves they're safe. Never been banned in 11 years until 5/13. Always running 2 accounts minimum. Since 5/13 I've lost 6 in sets of 2 and most recently 1/1. It's safe to say at this point I've heard all the conspiracy theories and tried many of my own hypothesis.
In the end, they got everyone in One wave last time. The bossland team has admitted they have no idea how. They've also changed nothing as far as flagables.
If you have any history at all with botting, you know blizzard does a collective "wave" annually give or take. Between they ban here or there and the cycle repeats. Just because you weren't pinched a few days ago has no bearing on safety. I can promise you your time is coming. It's common sense.
Took me many years to buy into it, always thought I was safer or smarter than everyone else. I'm finally converted. Your foolish if you bot anything other than suicide accounts. Most are unwilling and I understand. That means playing your main account by hand and nowadays few are capable and the ones that are simply don't find wow enjoyable. Unfortunately for the kids who had wow as their first mmorpg, this is the game you created with your generations entitlement, lack of work ethic, and desire to have something for nothing coupled with the game not being designed around time investment or effort, rather convenience and giving everyone a reward just for playing. It's much like sports teams in school handing out rewards for participation. What a detriment on society. Let's not get off topic though.
Blizzard is now going full tilt. While being the biggest hypocrites around, botting now infringes on their profit. I expected a wave prior to legion and it worried me for awhile. If I had to guess its still coming either right before, or right after. Unfortunately they got me a bit sooner. Ironically it happened the day after they charged my cc of course. That being said, I put in a request for legion and my fees to be refunded and I fully expect that to be the case.
Luckily I managed 13/13m prior to all this so I was "done" anyways.
Until the people banned begin talking with their wallets and stop re buying right away, blizzard has less than zero incentive to be more thoughtful about who and why and when they ban. You actually make them money by doing so. It's a complete win-win for them.
That coupled with the best bots only using x86 makes their job too easy. They can all but insta thin out the crowd they need to look at.
Even worse, about 20% of SBR users just got banned (roughly 75ppl). While this is a small fraction of the users compared to hb users that have been banned (tens and tens of thousands), it's still just as miserable and foreboding. They have been much safer for much longer but something has been changing. It's all but proof that not only can a cr get you banned by itself - but x64 doesn't gaurantee safety. I will say that there is no way of telling how many of those users used x64 as opposed to the x86 version, nor how many ran it concurrently with hb - it still gives food for thought.
Don't bot, learn how to use gnome sequencer at worst, or begin researching your class and slowly setting up/memorizing keybinds prior to legion. You are prolonging the inevitable - as much as it pains me, eventually one of these straws will break the camels back.
I'd like to say if all botters quit insta re subbing, blizzard would drop to 25% of its peak population, less than ffxiv players which is much safer to bot in. They would be forced to take notice.
While greed has no limits, it only takes 20k subs for an mmorpg to turn a profit. They would still be making embarrassing amounts of money, the only way to give them pause is to hit thier bottom line.
Good luck. the game has been dead to me apart from my guild and botting since mid BC when the dumbing down began and botting became commonplace. The two aforementioned kept me from other games and mediums for a long long time. I've finally been scared straight.
