Are there any ways to disrupt a RMT bot's pattern of behavior?

[sarehptar]

Especially the ones that bot out of Horizon tend to be easily killed. Although you can't get the ones at the aetheryte, you can easily monster kill the bots out in the field by dragging mobs over to them and letting them get eaten by AOEs.

I had fun one day pulling every monster in the watery area between Horizon and Vesper and letting the black mage bots who were leveling there take them all off me with Fire II... Instant death. >: D

Unfortunately... they're also generally set to just come back after they die, so you can only stop them for a minute or two at best. Sadness.

[Malzian]

I witnessed a few of them teleporting away, so I proceeded to use my old trick of teleport cancelling on them (trade with someone shortly before the teleport cast is complete). Sadly, it didn't work. They'd just attempt to teleport again.

So, long story short, are there any ways to disrupt them permanently? Does anyone know of a working method?
I'm kinda curious.

I would highly advise against doing this. Firstly the old trick of 'trade locking' was removed due abuses of it on legitimate players. Also, using tactics like this is against TOS. Any action taken by one player to willfully disrupt another "player's" ability to use the game systems is considered harassment and will likely lead to you getting punished instead. Also, you're simple disruption does not handle the core issue nor is it likely to permanently stop that bot from functioning. It is recommended that you simply report the Bots you find than trying to deal with them yourself, this saves you the trouble of having to try and figure this out, avoids the possibility of breaking TOS and allows SE to properly research and build the case to properly ban the account associated with the bot.

I had fun one day pulling every monster in the watery area between Horizon and Vesper and letting the black mage bots who were leveling there take them all off me with Fire II... Instant death. >: D

Please note that this is also against TOS. Intentionally drawing mobs to a character with the intention of having those mobs kill said character is griefing no matter the circumstance.

[sarehptar]

Please note that this is also against TOS. Intentionally drawing mobs to a character with the intention of having those mobs kill said character is griefing no matter the circumstance.

I guess the one day the bot grows sentience and reports me, I'll take my punishment with pride.

[Malzian]

It's not actually gone though just requires certain timing.

Well, you have to do it before they start the animation where prior it would interrupt the animation.

I guess the one day the bot grows sentience and reports me, I'll take my punishment with pride.

You can certainly do as you will, just giving out a PSA so you're aware, if a GM sees you do this then it doesn't matter if the bot could report you or not.

[Lone-wolfe-02]

I would highly advise against doing this. Firstly the old trick of 'trade locking' was removed due abuses of it on legitimate players.

It's not actually gone though just requires certain timing.