Quote Originally Posted by Alberel View Post
Well come Heavensward the bots are going to be largely screwed since they will need to complete the story to access any of the expansion areas and content. That means the bots will have a hard time farming anything in 3.0 and if they get banned they have to play through all that story content again on a new account.

It won't directly impede their /tell spam but it should severely harm their productivity which might scare them off a bit.
They'll do it the same way they do now. Use level 1 characters to spam tells and friend requests. Use the same characters they've been using to spam the same old dungeons and the other things they have been spamming for the gil. Pool the gil on bank characters and use mail to get that gil to the buyers. Heavensward won't change anything, aside from possibly an upsurge in activity at the release due to sellers trying to tap a new market. The old dungeons aren't going away so I don't see how the introduction of higher level content into the game would harm their productivity at all.