Tank dungeon bots?

Twice tonight I have had characters with names like Yjnngh gggjgh join our duty. They run into a pack of mobs, spam flash until OOM then just sit there auto attacking.


Has anyone else encountered this?

1.) It would not respond to add's joining the battle. It would stay stuck one target until it died then it switched.
2.) It would follow the wall as if it got stuck. It would only move to the center after it aggroed a mob.
3.) It used no skills other then flash and auto attack. Nothing else.
4.) Name was pure gibberish and would not respond to party inquires for help.

Soooo that's not how you play PLD?

Sounds either bottish or someone who doesn't understand the job.

Sounds like the pld was doing his rotation perfectly, new here?

Come on now. As a PLD main, I can tell you we have 2 buttons, Flash, and Vote Abandon.

No, trust me that is not what I am saying at all. I have a PLD at 32 so I know about flashing until OOM and such. This was defiantly off by pulling one mob and flashing until OOM then just sitting there not responding when other add's chase a party member around. The character is fixated on one target the entire time until it dies then it moves to the next. It then got stuck on the corner of the wall following it around until it aggroed a mob.

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Originally Posted by Delsai

No, trust me that is not what I am saying at all. I have a PLD at 32 so I know about flashing until OOM and such. This was defiantly off by pulling one mob and flashing until OOM then just sitting there not responding when other add's chase a party member around. The character is fixated on one target the entire time until it dies then it moves to the next. It then got stuck on the corner of the wall following it around until it aggroed a mob.

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Oh, yeah, its almost certifiably bots. Us forum goers just think we are HILARIOUS.

I remember happening the same months ago.
Me and the other 2 people constantly talking to the tank but he is just ignored and proceeded to do the 1 focus mob and ignore everything else.
Resulted in Eos tanking the whole dungeon.

i will often say this in party chat: Please type "Notabot" in party chat, if you are not a bot" if i suspect one or more of the team is a bot. It leads to some fun conversations, and some kicks of bots, or people who don't read english. Sorry jp's or others who roll a character on an NA server, and play like you're an idiot scripted roBOT.

Dungeon running bots do exist. Generally, I caution people to not be overly cavalier in botting accusations (as folks often are of those doing fates or gathering, etc), but it sounds like you may well have run into one.

As long as people don't start witch hunting again because I really tire of someone sending me a PM saying "Respond to me or I'll report you for botting" when I'm fishing.

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Originally Posted by Hydrium

As long as people don't start witch hunting again because I really tire of someone sending me a PM saying "Respond to me or I'll report you for botting" when I'm fishing.

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Blacklist 'em. SE doesn't ban just because someone points the finger.

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Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

Blacklist 'em. SE doesn't ban just because someone points the finger.

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Oh I know, doesn't make it any less annoying. I fish when I'm at work because it's easy but it tends to involve me sitting in one spot for 7+ hours doing the same thing over and over. Usually I get 5 PMs a day.

I see nothing suspicious here, this description fits to average FFXIV player. xD

Fishing is easily done remotely or even just in the background mashing a macro from a gamepad using the cross hotbar.
Both use human intervention to initiate each action, so it's not botting and perfectly acceptable. I'd probably never actually never notice a fishing bot if they exist. And it wouldn't surprise me if they do.
But any other gathering, crafting, or battle class is very easily noticed. I'll report every one of them.

The strangest ones are the ones that seem like real accounts. Names, FC's, achievements, everything. Why are they playing the game if they aren't actually playing the game? Well, hopefully they don't play for long after the cheating report is filed.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

The strangest ones are the ones that seem like real accounts. Names, FC's, achievements, everything. Why are they playing the game if they aren't actually playing the game? Well, hopefully they don't play for long after the cheating report is filed.

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Well, at least for gathering and crafting... they might be doing the same thing as fishing. Watching netflix, FFXIV only partially visible, running through the same old rotations. Gathering, a lot of the time you can just tab, target lock, run forward. Crafting is even easier.

Not to call out you in particular, just there's a lot of people that are trigger happy when it comes to accusing people of botting (and other things like RMT, for example). I also wouldn't be surprised if someone has reported me for botting when running N than fates... it's pretty mechanical and my attention is generally going to be on my other screen.

Because crafting macros exist, its verrrrry easy for someone to mistakenly point out a crafter as some kind of bot. When I'm mass crafting things I'll sit there while watching a TV show tapping my macro once per synth and letting it roll through. So threatening to report someone for crafting and not giving a crap about whatever you happen to be saying to them is hardly a good thing to do.

On the other hand, on Behemoth in Gridania now and then you'll see a bunch of identical gibberish named black mages waiting for queue. Last time i saw a group there were 13 of them at the same time, all of them queued for duty finder. They would randomly dissapear/reappear as their dungeon queues popped etc.

I fear for any group that got stuck in a party with them.

That kind of operation makes it very obvious that they are in fact bots, no chance a player is behind any of that.

Whats sad is some of these tank bots actually play better than real people because they are smart enough to know what flash does....

I've only ever seen one obvious bot, a BLM in SV normal who was only casting Blizz 1 which could have just been a bad player, but what gave it away was they were randomly casting Apoc on party members even when out of combat. When the group realised we asked them to respond they didnt so we kicked them, only for them to instantly requeue and re-join the instance, we ended up running for while without looking for new members so we wouldnt get them again.

Did you happen to see the bot in Dzemael Darkhold?
That dungeon has been having bots since 2.0. Good and bad ones.

I had a tank that would type heal skills in /say chat and the healer would use those skills. We typed the words out to other skills and the healer used them when we did too, so there was some kind of script going. When we did, the tank got really, really pissy. It was hilarious.

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Originally Posted by VisRalis

Did you happen to see the bot in Dzemael Darkhold?
That dungeon has been having bots since 2.0. Good and bad ones.

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There was a tank in there yesterday with a very bottish name. But he used chat (minimally) and responded appropriately to what was being said. Funny thing was, I could swear I had that name on my blist for gil spam. Who knows, maybe the person behind the bot gets bored and plays once in awhile. Or it was a bot from a small timer, leveling it to HW.

OT: I was accused of botting one time, as LTW. I couldn't be bothered to individually craft the lower stuff for faster exp, so I was just purchacing from the vendor whatever it took to make a stack of 99, craft the first one, then quick synth the next. They buy the stuff for the next highest stack when done. I was just cleaning the house or something and saw the bot accusation flashing by.