Tank dungeon bots?

[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.

[Risvertasashi]

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.

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

[Hydrium]

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

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.

[StrejdaTom]

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

[Canadane]

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.

[Risvertasashi]

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.

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.

[Demise]

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.

[Adventica6]

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

[Kitano123]

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.

[VisRalis]

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