As a web designer, I can understand how someone who doesn't use CSS daily or at a high level can feel like CSS is a complete boggle to start with, but how is this guy still relevant?
I've been playing WoW since Feb. 2005, and have pretty much seen it all in the game. I really hate to defend Blizzard, because really, they are pretty terrible when it comes to resolution of issues, but, this guy definitely was violating the TOS.
It doesn't matter what you call it, but there are ways that Blizzard tracks what your character does throughout the game. A flag goes up if your character is sticking around in the same place in a zone for xx amount of time, and doing the same actions every xx seconds/minutes. On my server, Aggramar, there's a number of Rogue's who are bots that you can watch in Winterspring and Western Plaguelands daily where they'll attack self-healing mobs automatically, kill 'em, loot 'em, move a bit, come back, and do the whole thing over and over again. While the intention of these folks is to farm gold, it's essentially the same thing that this guy was doing.
Call it what you will, but sorry man, you were exploiting the game. It's all good and fine to have macros, and I can sympathize about wanting to up your weapon skills at 60 (especially since Priests rarely use their melee weapons), but there's better ways to do it, and putting your toon on autopilot is exactly the same as a farming bot.
You could've just run MC or BWL with your guild a few times and gone shadowform & meleed the lava packs and such, or help other guildies out in mid-level instances like Uldaman and Maraudon and leveled your melee weapon skills while healing your group.
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As a web designer, I can understand how someone who doesn't use CSS daily or at a high level can feel like CSS is a complete boggle to start with, but how is this guy still relevant?
I've been playing WoW since Feb. 2005, and have pretty much seen it all in the game. I really hate to defend Blizzard, because really, they are pretty terrible when it comes to resolution of issues, but, this guy definitely was violating the TOS. It doesn't matter what you call it, but there are ways that Blizzard tracks what your character does throughout the game. A flag goes up if your character is sticking around in the same place in a zone for xx amount of time, and doing the same actions every xx seconds/minutes. On my server, Aggramar, there's a number of Rogue's who are bots that you can watch in Winterspring and Western Plaguelands daily where they'll attack self-healing mobs automatically, kill 'em, loot 'em, move a bit, come back, and do the whole thing over and over again. While the intention of these folks is to farm gold, it's essentially the same thing that this guy was doing. Call it what you will, but sorry man, you were exploiting the game. It's all good and fine to have macros, and I can sympathize about wanting to up your weapon skills at 60 (especially since Priests rarely use their melee weapons), but there's better ways to do it, and putting your toon on autopilot is exactly the same as a farming bot. You could've just run MC or BWL with your guild a few times and gone shadowform & meleed the lava packs and such, or help other guildies out in mid-level instances like Uldaman and Maraudon and leveled your melee weapon skills while healing your group.