Phoenix is overrun with Monday Morning bot herds

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In the last hour or so I have reported around a dozen bots in Thanalan, level 1-20, and Player Searches using the first three characters of their repeatitive names showed about another 30 in Thanalan and the Shroud: try COC as one example.

More than that, I saw the names of two FCs each of which showed 24/24 online, and not all the bots are in those FCs, so a conservative guess would mean well over 60 bots, all created today (the FCs were created today); the FCs have the same kind of generated names as the bots, the tags are HMVR and XR .. no this is NOT name and shame, I'm not naming specific characters!

They're all in parties, mostly mages, all 'popup' from below ground to interact with NPCs then instantly vanish (many back to Walking Sands), occasionally they 'fly' to an NPC.

After 3 years SE clearly have utterly failed to even begin to deal with the 'bottability' of the game, I assume they've given up and are content with legit players being screwed over by this scum.