Just ran across a whole mess of them camping at wansalen's boss. I had time and just reported each and every one of them, with a screenshot included. But yeah, something has to be done about them, I couldn't get any loot from the boss, I was only able to get one hit in on him before the bots killed him. Got the achievement, but screw that, I want loot!

Every dungeon I have visited through the level 26 has had Bots camping on the Boss. They need to do something like instance the boss so that once you kill him you cannot see him again. Something similar should be done with the Vampires/Werewolves, you should not be able to kill them more than once to prevent camping.

Bramir wrote: »

Had basically the same experience with bots at every public dungeon boss. One thing I noticed is that the bosses don't seem to be dropping anything anymore...

Why not just ban the bots? They are so unbelievably obvious to anyone in the same room...just do it. If they complain point them to the terms of service and let them come back if they promise not to do that again.

They don't drop because i think depending on how much hp the mob has, or the type of mob it is you need to do a certain amount of damage to it to get loot. A dungeon boss mob isn't like a normal mob you find while just normally running around adventuring, you have to do some damage beyond one hit i believe. So these bots are also preventing legit players from getting loot also, at least i think.

These bots have also gotten very advanced, kinda funny yet sad at the same time lol.

Check this other video some guy posted out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvmcNhwJtqM#t=62

hmm i do remember that SWG had some problem like this so they sent a Server Dev / Moderater every 1hr or so to the site ..AOE'ed them .. left.. rinse and repeat until the problem was solved. that should slow the farmers / bots down.. and from what i remember they did tell players before they did it to see if anyone moved to a save area..

They were in every solo dungeon in Rivenspire yesterday. I'm a sorceress and I always use destructive reach on a boss that sends it several metres away from the mob, usually in the direction of real players waiting in the back, so they can get their experience and some loot too.

are they even reading these posts be nice to get an answer from Zenimax about this before they start loosing players oh but they already have our $ so who cares huh ??

Send in gm's please and take these clowns out. Although i would like to have the campers ported to their own private instance, and game/chat/mail-locked there. for 2 weeks then unbind... or ban.

uggh.. I now see the reality of this problem. When I first read these complaints weeks ago I thought them over dramatic. Usually when I see a group of players standing around a spawn spot, the group isn't large and many of the players move on after they get a kill in. Normally in this case it is a easy matter for me to get some hits in or a heal and get completion credit.

But the other evening while running on an alt, I went into a public and found an excessively large group of toons with names that consited onl of strings of random characters standing clumped up. I was amazed at how fast they carved the mob down upon spawning. Even looked like they started attacking before I could see the spawn. Took several tries and quick fingers to get completion credit.

I'm not sure a tag timer would work well without screwing legit players. As in a timer preventing you from participating in a boss kill or preventing you from getting loot from it for a time. Sounds good at first, but even if you made it so a player had to leave the area for a time before being able to loot again I could see botters then just using teleport-to-player to port in and out waves of their alts (would be more complex scripting and setup for sure.. but it is feasible).

What if maybe bosses didn't always spawn in the same spot? give them an area larger than aoe range were they can spawn randomly.. decrease his respawn time after a kill so it's easier for different players to find him? As an aside I've been rather annoyed about how the respawn time on some quest/boss mobs seems to be excessively long.. I hate the waiting.. wether there is a group of farmers standing around or I'm alone.

Perhaps they could make the public dungeon bosses a daily quest you can get from reading one of the notes at near the dungeon entrance?
Boss drops no loot, just go turn in quest for comparable loot.
Once the botters find they can only get loot once a day, they'll find something else to camp.

The bots are in the lvl 40 zone now. Joy oh joy.

lmao I was in there yesterday and seen this for myself ,its over so quick I even tried to kill the boss myself after 10 kills I only managed to get drops 2 times,
so top class to post for posting video . when I was there I think most were bots and a few players so remember not all of them are bots post the evidence let the game decide who the bots are

Maybe they could randomly spawn the boss at various locations in the last areas of the dungeons ?

All of the bots I saw last night , were crowded around the spawn point using aldric spears first ability, thats fast but short range melee attack.

Etchesketch wrote: »

Just have a wandering cave troll come into every dungeon and kill everything that doesn't run away. Once and hour should be cool.

They have Soul Gems and rez themselves.... So while that sounds good, it's not very effective...