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What's the theory around grinding ban?

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BobbyNewhart

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I've grinded Maghar rep from a level 85 toon for hours and not banned, so I assume there is some way they are differentiating leveling and farming grinding.

I ask because I want to farm some BC leather. I'm thinking of pushing a DK up to 75 and doing it. All the mobs should be grey by that point.

Any opinions?
 
There's a common idea that the server may flag your character if you level x amount of levels with out x amount of quest xp. So for instance if you grind levels 1 - 10 and dont' do any quests you may be flagged and investigated.

Not levelling while grinding doesn't flag you, as this is normal player behaviour (Unless it's for 8+ hours...)
 
Getting banned for grinding is just a matter of bad luck. If a person spots you and finds you suspicious they'll report you. If nobody spots you, you wont get banned.
Also, Blizzard does not check if you have grinded 1-85 or have been online for 4 days in a row unless you are actually reported by someone.
So my tip to you Bobby is to get a proper cc(singular is shit), get an autoreplying-plugin like ShutUp(remember to ignore after 1-2 whispers and also get Arelog so you can switch profiles every 4hrs or something like that. The logic behind switching profiles is just so you wont risk being spotted farming the same skins for days.

Regards
 
Recently I botted a guy 1-75 until i did archeology and quested at 80 with no issues.

I think the grinding thing is overstated. Just don't grind, and only grind, in the same spot for 14+ hours a day. Do some bgs maybe, some herbing, archeology, something.. Does this actually make a difference? I don't know, but it can't hurt.

I think the big thing with grinding though is the ability to get reported.. Staying in the same zone forever, and killing the same mobs is gonna turn heads towards you too much compared to the moving around of questing and AB. That said if you have a good CC and use ShutUp plugin, and if in a questing area maybe try to avoid the primetime hours somewhat, that'd probably help a lot too.
 
Sounds to me, from everything I've read, is that there's a good chance someone is reporting the person. What happens after that, who knows. Maybe a GM logs in to check your toon or maybe they start looking at your previous activity.

I really, really doubt they employ too many people to look over all the logs and find out who leveled too fast, who was grinding, who played nonstop, etc. Seems logical that they would rely on people reporting the bot, then investigating. If they had people to read logs, then most of the people here would be banned. I think the biggest thing is to be smart about it.
 
Obliv said:
Sounds to me, from everything I've read, is that there's a good chance someone is reporting the person. What happens after that, who knows. Maybe a GM logs in to check your toon or maybe they start looking at your previous activity.

I really, really doubt they employ too many people to look over all the logs and find out who leveled too fast, who was grinding, who played nonstop, etc. Seems logical that they would rely on people reporting the bot, then investigating. If they had people to read logs, then most of the people here would be banned. I think the biggest thing is to be smart about it.
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QFT.
In simple terms. Don't be stupid. Get a monitoring plugin, or use software, and set up an addon or plugin to auto reply to whispers. Watch the bot for 10 minutes to ensure it runs well and it's pathing is fine and the CC is acting normally. Then you're pretty much set. I spend 30 minutes per day setting my bot/s up for their daily grind, sometimes lasting up to 20 hours, usually actually. I've had no issues, so I consider all grinding bans purely user error which leads to reports. ^.^
 
cawpet said:
QFT.
In simple terms. Don't be stupid. Get a monitoring plugin, or use software, and set up an addon or plugin to auto reply to whispers. Watch the bot for 10 minutes to ensure it runs well and it's pathing is fine and the CC is acting normally. Then you're pretty much set. I spend 30 minutes per day setting my bot/s up for their daily grind, sometimes lasting up to 20 hours, usually actually. I've had no issues, so I consider all grinding bans purely user error which leads to reports. ^.^
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You should honestly try out Arelog so you can automaticly switch profiles.
 
Neyyy. The benefit doesn't outweigh the added risk. I shall keep it simples as it is, 2 years hassle free, If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
 
HB7032V76 said:
omg... i've thought my english is bad :(

no offence , u just gave me hard time reading your post :)
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Your english is good. It's just the punctuation and capitalization you're still mastering.

*Sorry, couldn't help since you'd made fun of him.
 
It has been a while, so things may have changed... but, at least then, it was player reports that led to the grinding simply being brought to their attention, which only then was a big piece of evidence against you.

Grinding increases your visibility to the average person. When they make a report, and the GM looks at the character's completed quest tab and sees little or nothing, then looks at time played, mobs killed and so on, it all ends up painting the same picture. I've never seen an automatic account flag for anything other than a detection, but again, I haven't worked there in over a year.
 
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