Some interesting points raised by Thaya and LordofDestruction regards types of botting, reasons why and ideas on changes/improvements to the game.
If everyone cheats, no one cheats.
Followers in WoW are legal quasi-bots that can aid progress and perform some tasks automatically. There was also a similar system in the Star Wars MMO. These things were integarted into the respective games with no issues whatsoever (well, ok, one can argue Garrisons destroyed the concept of an MMO but that's another discussion).
Maybe a solution (in addition to the great ideas from LoD) could be the introduction of automation of some tasks via a 'limited use' legal bot system or the ability for your followers to do some stuff for you on CD with stripped down results vs. doing it manually?
As for me, yes I am a cheater. I used D3Helper to keep the Taeguk stacks up for my WD (basically spamming Firebats ever 2850 MS). If that gets me banned - then fine. I enjoyed the game, alltho I dislikes that need to push a button to keep up a certain buff.
You'll be happy to know Taeguk has been completely redone for next patch. Having to continually spam skills for stacks was bad design - which has happily been indentified & rectified. Had the same issue with my HotA barb to the point I changed spec to avoid it!
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An honest, thoughtful and considered post. It's interesting to hear from different people and get an idea of what the player base is thinking. It's clear that there's a large difference between this type of bot use and, for example, someone who makes money from streaming/being at the top of the game. I think if you are amongst the elite and vying for top of the leader boards, part of that achievement has to be dedication and sacrifice - like a pro sportsman has to make - so using a bot to cut out the less desirable parts and still expect the credit and all the upside is inherently wrong.
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Some interesting points raised by Thaya and LordofDestruction regards types of botting, reasons why and ideas on changes/improvements to the game.
If everyone cheats, no one cheats.
Followers in WoW are legal quasi-bots that can aid progress and perform some tasks automatically. There was also a similar system in the Star Wars MMO. These things were integarted into the respective games with no issues whatsoever (well, ok, one can argue Garrisons destroyed the concept of an MMO but that's another discussion).
Maybe a solution (in addition to the great ideas from LoD) could be the introduction of automation of some tasks via a 'limited use' legal bot system or the ability for your followers to do some stuff for you on CD with stripped down results vs. doing it manually?
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You'll be happy to know Taeguk has been completely redone for next patch. Having to continually spam skills for stacks was bad design - which has happily been indentified & rectified. Had the same issue with my HotA barb to the point I changed spec to avoid it!
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An honest, thoughtful and considered post. It's interesting to hear from different people and get an idea of what the player base is thinking. It's clear that there's a large difference between this type of bot use and, for example, someone who makes money from streaming/being at the top of the game. I think if you are amongst the elite and vying for top of the leader boards, part of that achievement has to be dedication and sacrifice - like a pro sportsman has to make - so using a bot to cut out the less desirable parts and still expect the credit and all the upside is inherently wrong.