The Botridden Land, Eureka Pyros

[Jijifli]

The exarchic bots are presumably former treasure map bots that moved onto greener pastures so to speak, while the ones in augmented cryptlurker gear are more likely recent level-skipped arrivals.

That said, I'm having doubts that the map bots that were active on my server are actually gone and rather think they're probably lingering in a locked instance I can't actually get into the few times I've checked.

I would like to note, outside of this pyros situation, the only time I have ever seen bots using the exarchic set is related to maps. And to double push on this, bots would have 0 reason to buy exarchic gear (or, ANY gear above 300 ilvl) for Eureka, because it force sync's the gear down. So, the fact some are wearing that I guess shows they weren't ever banned, they just shifted to different botting activities, probably due to a lack of supply at this point on Zonureskin maps to keep it consistent under a certain threshold for their level 2 conjurer bots buying it up.

[Jojoya]

I would like to note, outside of this pyros situation, the only time I have ever seen bots using the exarchic set is related to maps. And to double push on this, bots would have 0 reason to buy exarchic gear (or, ANY gear above 300 ilvl) for Eureka, because it force sync's the gear down. So, the fact some are wearing that I guess shows they weren't ever banned, they just shifted to different botting activities, probably due to a lack of supply at this point on Zonureskin maps to keep it consistent under a certain threshold for their level 2 conjurer bots buying it up.

Thanks to quick ventures, Exarchic gear is dirt cheap and easier to come by right now compared to any of the level 70 gear that can be obtained from the MB (at least on Crystal, I can't speak for other data centers). Makes more sense to get it since there's more flexibility in what content can be done with it. That would be useful to bot operators if they think there might be more profit in switching back to maps at some point.

If they're bots still operating from Shadowbringers, their gear should display a Maker's Signature when viewed on Lodestone. Exarchic didn't show up in quick ventures until 6.0.

[Jijifli]

If they're bots still operating from Shadowbringers, their gear should display a Maker's Signature when viewed on Lodestone. Exarchic didn't show up in quick ventures until 6.0.

This should be covering enough to follow rules, no?

Source, to note, is from the linked to post on the first page, which links a video of these very bots in question. If you want to track some of them yourself, you're free to, but here's one with a very clear named exarchic piece.


So, there you go. <3