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    Bot Bans on the Rise: Possible Banwave?

    Honorbuddy/Gatherbuddy, a popular botting platform for World of Wacraft, has long been hailed as the most well coded subscription-based public bot on the market. Boasting a large user base, the duo of programs automatically mine herbs, bot battlegrounds, heal and DPS instances, grind, and complete quests.

    Ban reporting incidence has increased greatly since last week, and the Honorbuddy forums are abuzz with wild speculation regarding a possible banwave.

    Clusters of users on both US and EU servers have been banned within recent days for use of the program. Many users on the forums suspect that Blizzard is randomly picking from a pool of reported botters each week, banning a certain number on the US and EU servers to avoid a total, pre-emptive shutdown of the Honorbuddy servers in defense against possible detection.

    There is no evidence that Honorbuddy or Gatherbuddy are currently detected on Warden, but that could change any time. As with all bots, hacks, and "third-party programs", Honorbuddy is against the ToS, and anyone caught using these programs will be banned. It is important to remember that once you begin using a bot, hack, or ToS-breaking program, your account could essentially be banned in an instant.

    Player reports are the cause of the majority of botting bans. Blizzard also does ritual scans of the auction house for suspected botters' products. If the player floods the AH with an unnatural amount of goods, it is likely that Blizzard will investigate the account further.


    Being banned for "exploitation of the economy" is one of Blizzard's favorite reasons for permanent closures and account suspensions. Players who flood vendors or the AH with farmed goods may receive a temporary or permanent ban, depending on the individual judgment of the GM.

    There is no reason to suspect that Warden has automatically detected Honorbuddy and Gatherbuddy, and both of the programs have strong Warden defense systems. This doesn't mean, however, that they are undetectable.

    By no means has there been any indication that a banwave is in place. Be cautious. We will update this post as more information is made available.


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    Bot Bans on the Rise: Possible Banwave?
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    No bots at all <3

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    banwave = thousands of bans, not few hundreds

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    Blueice22's Avatar Active Member
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    Yeah the ones that heal and DPS instances are absolutely horrible. You see a lock needing on everything he can even if it isn't an upgrade.

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    Well, we will se what they do im still not banned so not sure been using it all alot lately

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    Players who flood vendors direct qoute from your article -

    I just wonder how they would get away with this, it's almost a financial crime to ban a customer due him/her using vendors for profit not affecting the realm-wide market.
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    Originally Posted by Zantas View Post
    Players who flood vendors direct qoute from your article -

    I just wonder how they would get away with this, it's almost a financial crime to ban a customer due him/her using vendors for profit not affecting the realm-wide market.
    Blizzard can ban you for any reason they want. It says that in the ToS.

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    Originally Posted by Maisteri View Post
    Blizzard can ban you for any reason they want. It says that in the ToS.
    or no reason at all, which is also in the ToS.

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    The only one true banwave was the glider ban wave, where around 3000+ players were permanently banned. There is only quote "Threads: 375" about bans on the HB forums, which brings me to the why? Most of the "new" HB users are "new" to botting all together and in their threads the majority bot for over 16 hours a day and sell all their farmed mats at once. The achievement system is blizzards way of saying "we know everything" so bot smart.
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    Well anyone thats not trying is gonna get banned eventually having good profiles knowing when / not when to bot and then theres the massive undercutting of the ah if your botting just to list stuff like 100+ g under the listed price just mail me the herbs even when im botting i never sell anything cheap i dont undercut people cause i want to make top dollar for everything i sell anyone who posts stuff so low its almost worthless is making there self suspicious.

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    Originally Posted by Jackie Moon View Post
    The only one true banwave was the glider ban wave, where around 3000+ players were permanently banned..
    very false....

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    Since I was caught in the Lua-wave I beg the differ.
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    Glider had Banwaves, ISXWoW had banwaves, E-bot had banwaves ...

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    i bot 24/7 and not a whisper, player reports are what nail you and mass ah posting. putting up 10 pages of ore a day is what dumb ppl do.

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