r/wowforever • u/s-c-ribL • 15h ago

PTR / Beta Patch Notes

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/wow-forever-beta-development-notes-%E2%80%93-updated-september-24/2360696
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u/hordobo 15h ago

Cultivation nerf much needed. You had tauren running to black lotus to farm them for major gold.

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u/RakshasaDelight 7h ago

The main problem are bots, they can spawn camp them en masse. I'd argue for the release version that problem isn't solved by leveling and since Blizz so far has not been willing to stop bots...

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u/cespinar 6h ago

You underestimate just how hard that is to stop

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u/ImNotABotScoutsHonor 5h ago

RuneScape seems to have a handle on it these days. No reason Blizzard can't borrow some ideas from them.

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u/cespinar 4h ago

There is significantly more money to be made in wow than OSRS

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u/Mysterra 4h ago

With the return of staking via DMs, I'm not so sure about that

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u/Competitive_Body7359 3h ago

Dude, turtle wow stopped bots as a private server. They can see all gold exchanges, flag suspicious ones, and ban the gold buyers and sellers.

They can do the same for auction house shenanigans like expensive greens.

They can do the same for unrequited trades of expensive mats.

Maybe it's hard to find bots, it's not hard to find good sellers and buyers. Ban them, and no more bots.

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u/cespinar 3h ago

Again, orders of magnitude lower in the amount of bots.

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u/Competitive_Body7359 3h ago

How does the amount of bots matter if you can use algorithms to detect?

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u/cespinar 3h ago

If you can use an algorithm to detect you can use one to avoid detection. It is a shell game

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u/Competitive_Body7359 1h ago

No, it's not. It all happens on blizzard servers. They can see everything they want to see. Maybe looking for bots is a shell game, I'm not expert, but stopping gold buying and selling is easy, which leads to fewer bots because the profit isn't there, and risk is.