Honestly if you want to see how bad the botting situation is hop on excalibur sometime, at all times there are at least 4-5 bot partys SBing, and i know for a fact 3 exploit/botting guilds that lately are increasing in activity.

several times a day you can easily find entire partys of bots logging on and organizing from level 1>50 doing instanced raids


It's out of control, and while it doesn't really hurt someone like me who does crafting near the endgame of crafting, It really hurts new players, and low tier gatherers/crafters

The worst part on my server, There is a player that runs about 6 bots at all times, he owns 5 houses, probably more now, and people cheer him on and support his activitys, almost all of these bots have supra's which you should know are fairly hard to obtain on your own