so yeah, 70 rogue in SSC / TK gear, 70 resto druid in Meh PvP gear, 70 warrior in SSC / TK, banned for gliding. now that the hammer has dropped, i can come right out and not pretend i didn't write the botting article from a few weeks back. while i wasn't going to come out and advertise it, i figured anyone that actually read the site knew it was me writing it anyway. it got linked to tobold's blog, so i wasn't going to put myself in the spotlight, but yeah... no sense fronting about it anymore. apparently blizz had a massive glider ban wave today (last night?) and i got caught in the net. i really don't even have any interest in trying to dispute it with them, it's done. it's actually kind of a relief.
i actually downloaded glider to level my fishing, because i'd be fucked to stand there in orgimmar clicking the bobber for 800 hours straight, and i wanted my warrior to have another way to farm primals (fishing pure water in Nagrand).
leveled it all the way to 375, before i realized that the whole pure water thing was a joke. oh well.
then i looked into BG botting, and farmed up some vindicators for my druid to be competetive at all in arenas. she actually got some good gear, but i never found an arena team to play with consistently.
then i found my friends playing on Zul'jin as alliance on a PVE server, so i rolled a hunter to join them. pretty much solidly botted that guy all the way up to 36. not 24/7, but i'd run it while at work or asleep for a few hours.
it's all gone, but at least i was smart enough to invite a RL friend into my bank alt guild, and give him unlimited access to the gold and gems / chanting mats in there. he can go in there and clear it out now, and xfer that toon wherever he wants for 25 bucks if he wants.
just yesterday, i had ordered age of conan, and was finding myself with zero interest in playing any of my end game toons anyway... the only thing i'd been playing for the last week or two was my newb hunter, and even then, the leveling (when not botting) was painful enough that i began to push the limits, kinda hoping i WOULD get banned, to have it out of my hands once and for all.
i had "quit" wow twice before, one time at 60 sharding all my gear and giving my gold away in ogr. then i came back, mooched money off friends, got some greens, and went back into molten core to rebuild. later i didn't make the same mistake, but just cancelled the subscription for a time, then came back.
now at least, coming back isn't an option. AoC will arrive, and i'll love it or hate it, but there's no way i'm buying a new wow account and starting from ZERO.
I'M FREEEE!
/cheer
i actually downloaded glider to level my fishing, because i'd be fucked to stand there in orgimmar clicking the bobber for 800 hours straight, and i wanted my warrior to have another way to farm primals (fishing pure water in Nagrand).
leveled it all the way to 375, before i realized that the whole pure water thing was a joke. oh well.
then i looked into BG botting, and farmed up some vindicators for my druid to be competetive at all in arenas. she actually got some good gear, but i never found an arena team to play with consistently.
then i found my friends playing on Zul'jin as alliance on a PVE server, so i rolled a hunter to join them. pretty much solidly botted that guy all the way up to 36. not 24/7, but i'd run it while at work or asleep for a few hours.
it's all gone, but at least i was smart enough to invite a RL friend into my bank alt guild, and give him unlimited access to the gold and gems / chanting mats in there. he can go in there and clear it out now, and xfer that toon wherever he wants for 25 bucks if he wants.
just yesterday, i had ordered age of conan, and was finding myself with zero interest in playing any of my end game toons anyway... the only thing i'd been playing for the last week or two was my newb hunter, and even then, the leveling (when not botting) was painful enough that i began to push the limits, kinda hoping i WOULD get banned, to have it out of my hands once and for all.
i had "quit" wow twice before, one time at 60 sharding all my gear and giving my gold away in ogr. then i came back, mooched money off friends, got some greens, and went back into molten core to rebuild. later i didn't make the same mistake, but just cancelled the subscription for a time, then came back.
now at least, coming back isn't an option. AoC will arrive, and i'll love it or hate it, but there's no way i'm buying a new wow account and starting from ZERO.
I'M FREEEE!
/cheer
