Bots killing everything

dennisb16_ESO73

What I witnessed today:

*10-20 are stacked on boss and instantly killing it so no one else get any update or much less any loot.( yeah I know old news)

*They were also running through out the whole dungeons in a loop pattern in groups and killing all mobs

*And even outside dungeons they were now roaming in packs killing everything in their path...

*Also harvesting nodes were being taken by teleporting bots all over the place


It baffles me that they didn't foresee this issue before the game launched, or even worse didn't bother to implement any measures to prevent it.

Unless they fix this asap, I doubt they will have many actual players renewing their subscriptions which is a shame for what could have been such a great game.

0ctave

Yup, was playing an alt today and attempting to finish some dungeons and unable to get credit (forget even trying to get loot) since the mob dies almost instantly. There's a stack of about 10+ bots right on top of the boss spawn.

Zenimax's lazy "solution" of making the bosses spawn slower has done nothing to stop the bots from farming and has only punished regular players. And there's little to no chance of even getting the unique blue items that they drop now.

deathly809_ESO

There are a few of these posts already. Maybe you should merge what you have to say with them?

Tykune

"Public Dungeon & Delve Boss Monsters – Also based on feedback, we will be placing a timer on how often you can get loot from public dungeon and delve boss monsters. This timer is shared across all boss monsters in public dungeons and delves. This will not impact loot timers for quest-specific monsters or overworld group bosses. Watch the patch notes for news on when this change will go live."

Source: http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/78524/upcoming-patch-highlights-in-progress-updates/p1

dennisb16_ESO73

Tykune wrote: »

"Public Dungeon & Delve Boss Monsters – Also based on feedback, we will be placing a timer on how often you can get loot from public dungeon and delve boss monsters. This timer is shared across all boss monsters in public dungeons and delves. This will not impact loot timers for quest-specific monsters or overworld group bosses. Watch the patch notes for news on when this change will go live."

Source: http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/78524/upcoming-patch-highlights-in-progress-updates/p1

That only partly solves the problem on bosses in dungeons unfortunately (if it even works).
So the bots will just move on to farm other mobs which it seems they have already started doing.
We'll probably just see even more teleporting bots on harvesting nodes even.

WitchAngel

deathly809_ESO wrote: »

There are a few of these posts already. Maybe you should merge what you have to say with them?

If ZoS were communicating (other than the usual "we are working on it") with their players in one of these posts, that merging would happen all by itself.

Skillet

deathly809_ESO wrote: »

There are a few of these posts already. Maybe you should merge what you have to say with them?

Actually, there are not enough posts. Its for the good of the developers that these get noticed, errr, whom am I kidding, they already know it. But what they may not have noticed yet is how much money this is costing them.