Thank you guys for the replies, it sucks that this has been a long time issue now and one that appears to be worsening. I'd love to get involved with PvP linkshells and discord channels for both Feast and Frontlines if it means I can avoid this constant nonsense.

I suppose my advice to anyone who seriously enjoys PvP would be to do the same, look for linkshells and discord channels. There doesn't seem to be much else we can do about the bot issue.