There are botters on Xegony. I watched for quite some time over the course of a few days. Their tank has a behavior that is always instantaneous, which is something that is impossible for a player to do. I observed a few things.
1) When a mob is pulled into camp, the tank will be facing one direction, and immediately flip the exact amount of degrees to face the mob, and run up to it, and immediately stop without having to correct itself. So if their tank is sitting down, facing north, and a mob comes in from the southwest, it will turn 135 degrees to the left, and run to the mob. It stops precisely where the mob is, and doesn't need to adjust itself in case you run too far. You know how if you are tanking something being pulled, game lag might display the mob running to you a certain distance away, but when you catch up to the server, it turns out you're now a couple feet behind the mob? This botting program does not account for that.
2) When adds come, the tank will again instantly turn directly towards the add to gain enough hate. The tank does not take time to turn with movement keys or mouse movement. In a fraction of a moment, it will go from facing one direction to the other.
I decided to do some more testing. I sat near their mob, and pulled myself a gorilla to kill. Once it got into its botting range, or whatever you want to call it, the entire bot group was on it. The tank, with its superhuman reaction time, grabbed my gorilla and proceeded to kill it. Once the gorilla was dead, most of its group would path back to their campfire, and sit. I tried this again, this time pulling two mobs. It would display the same behavior as I described in points 1 and 2. It is plain as day to tell the difference between a player tanking and a bot tanking - no one can face exactly the direction they want to without having to actually move your field of view with your mouse or keyboard. I can say, with 100% certainty, that this group was botting.
This particular bot group on Xegony camps at the bottom of the hill that leads up to the quest NPCs on Brother Isle. They have been there, at the exact spot, with this exact same behavior, for a few days now. Their names are:
Casten <Evolution Dawns>
Jutaisu <Smuffy's Heroes>
Beafcake <Iratus Lepus>
Acedesxx
Wishdoctah <Iratus Lepus>
Tecmmo <Iratus Lepus>
If they are still there, go and watch what a botting group looks like. I repeatedly tried to communicate with them for a few days, and they did not respond to me, or to anyone else. The only interaction you can get is if you fight a mob near them - they will take your mob, since their program thinks they pulled it.
Kellaer, Yesterday at 9:33 PM
