Hello all. I am Minatora (yeah I just created this account :)) It really doesn't matter that my name can be seen in the video. To be honest a lot of the main bots know this character anyway and will log out even if I go in their zone. I don't even need to be near them. They constantly monitor this characters location. I have been killing bots for the longest time on this server. I have probably killed in the thousands now. But I only go after the high levels pretty much nowadays. I am unfortunately the reason why all of the Chinese bots fled to Scarlet Monastery where I cannot kill them. However they are only 2 maybe 3 people only. The main botter even tried to bribe me to stop killing him in game by sending me 3 stacks of runecloth, some blues and a bag in the mail. I didn't stop. This is not their best gold farm but they have to go there anyway. Now I put them all in there, all Blizzard has to do is ban them easily - but they haven't for months... Blizzard only bans based on reports so everybody needs to take a screenshot of the SM bots and email Hacks@Blizzard.com . Same with the fishing bots that have now fled to "unknown" and Azshara since Madskillzzhc killed them before in Tanaris. Anyway, my name doesn't matter because this is just one of 5 hunters I have above lvl 50 on Stitches. I have a 60 and 57 on horde, a 59, 54, 52 on alliance. The purpose was because once they knew my name, I had to try to kill them on another char because they would just stop gameplay or idle in an inn if I went in their zone. You can name change on Classic, but need 2 accounts on the same BNet and use a bit of trickery. This does not work however because your friends list is tied to an ID and not your name so they could still detect me. I used to go by the name Alubjuia before my name change if you know me (crap name I know). I will not be going after the other bounties, unless people struggle with them. I have my own targets ;) I only wanted Peacefuy really, since he evaded me before and I wasn't able to kill him and I had to go. I knew he would be difficult. I used to kill by kiting or facetanking mobs too but using your pet is perfectly safe if eyes of the beast cancels when the mobs are far away, and everyone can do it. I feel it's the only way when you need to kite 10+ lower level mobs to a high level bot. You have no idea how happy I am that Madskillzz is now getting the community involved. It's great to see. If you need any help /w me in game. Good luck to all killing the other bounties :)
Fact that putting bounty on bot heads worked and community got involved brings a big smile to my face. Remember these days brothers, this is a historic wow moment right here.
The irony is that this is going to be the closest thing we have to a community recurring event we have, especially since the customer service (the thing supposedly supported by the players' subscription) is inexistant.
That's one reason I unsubbed and don't plan to go back. I only want to play Hardcore, but I don't want to play it with bots infesting the servers and Blizzard doing basically nothing about them.
I love that you sound so genuinely excited. Hope your channel does well, I could really see it growing if you keep moving in this direction! Love watching your videos and always look forward to the next one. Also fuck the bots.
I’ve long since retired from WoW but this guy’s passionate enthusiasm is why I continue watching. Reminds me of Kripparrian’s early content during WoTLK
this is beautiful to witness. good job man, i think the way you are making this a community effort is a great step. this is going to lower their profits and make their "job" A LOT more stressful.
There is something truly special about the hardcore community, if the GMs aren't gona ban those fuckers we are gona take matters into our own hands. keep up the good work
Great movement! I recently started playing HC and I gotta say I was amazed when I found this channel. The starting areas are filled with what seems to be bots. I was surprised looking at low level people having insanely linear movements. This combined with the fact that they do not interact with anyone in any way, shape or form and instead just go about doing their own thing on repeat made me question if they are players or not. After seeing a few of those videos it clicked, they aren't players, they are bots leveling up.
Good to see this is catching on. How ever, at this point I would not be surprised if Blizzard takes actions against bot hunting before taking action against the bots themselves.
They'll have to think about that one pretty hard, banning people for taking the bot problem into their own hands is horrible PR for blizzard. It would basically say publically with no uncertain terms that they value the botter's gameplay experience over regular customers. But at the same time I agree, it somehow dosen't seem impossible that blizzard would take action against 'griefers in hardcore' without disclosing the context...
@@ToastyFruitcake The community may not collectively target another player, eg you cant call out people in chat for this or that. But thats not saying its not being done, nor that blizzard do anything about it. But a grp of players cannot interfere with another players gaming expereince, and even talking about it is against EULA
The commentary is great, you've made hunting an esport! Cleaning the vermin out of our game haha (and showing the great utility of classic hunter kit!)
Besides your content being very satisfying, I appreciate you not filling your videos with bs or having stupid chat boxes and other graphics cluttering the UI. Well done, keep it up.
I dropped a link for your channel on the GuzuTV comment section. His audience watch hc deaths a lot. I figure they'd enjoy seeing you and your allies slay the bots. Maybe even get some more people involved. His reach isn't the biggest but it might even get people on other servers involved, and maybe this can spill into larger channels from Guzu if he picks it up.
I only wish you success Mad. Keep building this HC hype and encouraging us all the clean up this mess, The more successful you are the more embarrassment Blizzard will ultimately feel and the likelihood of real corporate action to find a solution will be taken seriously. Love the content, I will make my own Aussie Bounty Hunter on HC fresh and look forward to frustrating this scourge of our community.
man, this takes me back to when we used to train a bunch of mobs and pull them onto bots in Lineage 2, back in like 2003-2004! :D in that game there was a chance that you dropped items (including equipped items) on the ground when you died, that other players could pick up :P good shit :D
I could watch this all day! The amount of hunter bots I´ve seen the last 2 weeks leveling my warrior.. A hunter will be next to learn how to really hunt! :D
damn i enjoy watching your video. this one is hella entertaining. shout out from the Philippines i can't afford playing classic retail but i enjoy watching vanilla wow related content.
The eye of the beast was an idea I had! I'm not the only one though. Since they have folks on a watch list they don't have pets on that list so its nice to see that it was actually used in action. Make sure to keep the pets names free of an actual name too! They can't put pet's named Owl or Boar on a watchlist because most of the time they have to "kill" thos mobs. So a named pet might not help at all because idk how far their so-called watchlist goes.
If Blizz could make this into an official event, killing bots for gold, it would help the community even more. Now it's relying on a community member to spend their hard-earned gold to fund this
I only ever played wow for a year on a private server some 10 years ago, but I love seeing cheaters systemmatically destroyed by the community. This is brilliant!
For fresh hc, make sure to hide your name in videos; in-game make sure to put special characters to make it hard to add to watch list, also change pet name frequently. Let the community help out on setting the bounties: everyone can chip in whatever amount of gold they feel like; a prize pot for an evasive bot will be very tempting. Very soon you`ll have a lot of players going for the bounties AND you`'ll see how resourceful players can be when taking on a challenge: you may see ways to kill bots that never ever would cross your mind.
You should make a dedicated bot killing guild on fresh. People would absolutely eat up that content up. Keep the names anonymous so the bots can't do anything. You'd be the ultimate vigilante hero that classic wow needs.
That eye refresh from that far away is crazy never knew you could do it that far away. He use haste or anything I thought pet would despawn that far away?
I'm pretty sure when you have the cast bar for Eyes of the Beast open on the second clip, the text there is the Hunter's name not the pet's, as the pet's HP bar just says "Owl". Might want to censor that out.
So me as mage could only theoretically do this with mobs that has some sort of fire breath kinda spell or totems or when a hunter has an owl or a bat as pet correct? Im pretty sure how leashing work but I also recently have seen a paladin pulling mobs on a bot and the mobs just started randomly attacking the bot, I have no clue how that would even be possible without the bot doing anything. Ofcourse when he heals or uses a pot he gets healing aggro but without doing anything? Love the wanting poster idea tho, sad that blizzard let it come to this.
It would then defy the purpose of farming. Bots have the pet healing as highest priority and that`s how they get killed by oom. In this set-up in Tanaris, FD would not matter because of the totems; you`d still be in combat.
this actually makes HC look more interesting than the retail. like, killing bots has appeal to it :D I wonder if rolling horde to kill alliance bots is worth it
I almost wish as you were sitting there just outside Gadgetzan doing your update that a bot would try to leave the city, detect you, and immediately run back inside to log off.
Hey man really GG videos, do you have a Bot Killer Guild ? what server ? I'm up ! Also, I would love to know if you have any advice of class beside Hunter to do that
Is it possible to kill the bot in Azshara (Satyr camps) and the other one at the Naga cave on Feathermoon on SkullRock? I have leveled 2 alts to 60 and those guys have not left in 2+ months. I will contribute a 100g for those guys.
Hello all. I am Minatora (yeah I just created this account :))
It really doesn't matter that my name can be seen in the video. To be honest a lot of the main bots know this character anyway and will log out even if I go in their zone. I don't even need to be near them. They constantly monitor this characters location.
I have been killing bots for the longest time on this server. I have probably killed in the thousands now. But I only go after the high levels pretty much nowadays.
I am unfortunately the reason why all of the Chinese bots fled to Scarlet Monastery where I cannot kill them. However they are only 2 maybe 3 people only.
The main botter even tried to bribe me to stop killing him in game by sending me 3 stacks of runecloth, some blues and a bag in the mail. I didn't stop.
This is not their best gold farm but they have to go there anyway. Now I put them all in there, all Blizzard has to do is ban them easily - but they haven't for months...
Blizzard only bans based on reports so everybody needs to take a screenshot of the SM bots and email Hacks@Blizzard.com . Same with the fishing bots that have now fled to "unknown" and Azshara since Madskillzzhc killed them before in Tanaris.
Anyway, my name doesn't matter because this is just one of 5 hunters I have above lvl 50 on Stitches. I have a 60 and 57 on horde, a 59, 54, 52 on alliance.
The purpose was because once they knew my name, I had to try to kill them on another char because they would just stop gameplay or idle in an inn if I went in their zone.
You can name change on Classic, but need 2 accounts on the same BNet and use a bit of trickery. This does not work however because your friends list is tied to an ID and not your name so they could still detect me.
I used to go by the name Alubjuia before my name change if you know me (crap name I know).
I will not be going after the other bounties, unless people struggle with them. I have my own targets ;) I only wanted Peacefuy really, since he evaded me before and I wasn't able to kill him and I had to go. I knew he would be difficult.
I used to kill by kiting or facetanking mobs too but using your pet is perfectly safe if eyes of the beast cancels when the mobs are far away, and everyone can do it. I feel it's the only way when you need to kite 10+ lower level mobs to a high level bot.
You have no idea how happy I am that Madskillzz is now getting the community involved. It's great to see.
If you need any help /w me in game.
Good luck to all killing the other bounties :)
This is so funny and wholesome at the same moment
You are a big inspiration bro!
the real mvp
We love you man
The real fucking heroes never wear capes. Absolute mad respect for you and Madskillz.
Fact that putting bounty on bot heads worked and community got involved brings a big smile to my face. Remember these days brothers, this is a historic wow moment right here.
two absolute gamers doing this pre-60
Amazing.
Name is visible in the Eye of the Beast cast bar constantly.
Great content. Cheers!
Also when hovering over pet at the end
The irony is that this is going to be the closest thing we have to a community recurring event we have, especially since the customer service (the thing supposedly supported by the players' subscription) is inexistant.
That's one reason I unsubbed and don't plan to go back. I only want to play Hardcore, but I don't want to play it with bots infesting the servers and Blizzard doing basically nothing about them.
Idk i get my issues solved within a few hours everytime. Maybe you just make tickets about pointless stuff
@@brel_ banning bots is pointless..? okay...
@@ecMonify youre really good at taking stuff out of context
I love that you sound so genuinely excited. Hope your channel does well, I could really see it growing if you keep moving in this direction! Love watching your videos and always look forward to the next one. Also fuck the bots.
I’ve long since retired from WoW but this guy’s passionate enthusiasm is why I continue watching. Reminds me of Kripparrian’s early content during WoTLK
@@JohnRhinoTheThird Haha yep I agree, I dont even play the game either lol
this is beautiful to witness. good job man, i think the way you are making this a community effort is a great step. this is going to lower their profits and make their "job" A LOT more stressful.
There is something truly special about the hardcore community, if the GMs aren't gona ban those fuckers we are gona take matters into our own hands. keep up the good work
They just spawn 1 second later and be back here 2 weeks later. It never ends
@@Sumppa I call that player made content :)
Great movement! I recently started playing HC and I gotta say I was amazed when I found this channel.
The starting areas are filled with what seems to be bots. I was surprised looking at low level people having insanely linear movements. This combined with the fact that they do not interact with anyone in any way, shape or form and instead just go about doing their own thing on repeat made me question if they are players or not.
After seeing a few of those videos it clicked, they aren't players, they are bots leveling up.
Good to see this is catching on. How ever, at this point I would not be surprised if Blizzard takes actions against bot hunting before taking action against the bots themselves.
They'll have to think about that one pretty hard, banning people for taking the bot problem into their own hands is horrible PR for blizzard. It would basically say publically with no uncertain terms that they value the botter's gameplay experience over regular customers. But at the same time I agree, it somehow dosen't seem impossible that blizzard would take action against 'griefers in hardcore' without disclosing the context...
Bliz is the MSNBC of gaming
@@ToastyFruitcake The community may not collectively target another player, eg you cant call out people in chat for this or that.
But thats not saying its not being done, nor that blizzard do anything about it.
But a grp of players cannot interfere with another players gaming expereince, and even talking about it is against EULA
Now this is the real end game.
Fantastic work guys!
I was going to say the same thing, I want to make a Bot hunter guild on HC now lol
An absolutely fantastic showing by the community...we have looked into the future & the revolution started this week...keep doing Gawd's work~!
I don't play classic or hardcore fro that matter, but this serie got me hooked, you're great man
The commentary is great, you've made hunting an esport! Cleaning the vermin out of our game haha (and showing the great utility of classic hunter kit!)
love to see the hunt evolving, now you even got others to join your quest!! awesome
Besides your content being very satisfying, I appreciate you not filling your videos with bs or having stupid chat boxes and other graphics cluttering the UI. Well done, keep it up.
I dropped a link for your channel on the GuzuTV comment section. His audience watch hc deaths a lot. I figure they'd enjoy seeing you and your allies slay the bots. Maybe even get some more people involved.
His reach isn't the biggest but it might even get people on other servers involved, and maybe this can spill into larger channels from Guzu if he picks it up.
OMG. FANTASTIC , I love seeing community quest!
im so happy this bounty initiative is paying off!!! :D good job man!
I only wish you success Mad. Keep building this HC hype and encouraging us all the clean up this mess, The more successful you are the more embarrassment Blizzard will ultimately feel and the likelihood of real corporate action to find a solution will be taken seriously. Love the content, I will make my own Aussie Bounty Hunter on HC fresh and look forward to frustrating this scourge of our community.
keep going bro
the community is behind you
man, this takes me back to when we used to train a bunch of mobs and pull them onto bots in Lineage 2, back in like 2003-2004! :D in that game there was a chance that you dropped items (including equipped items) on the ground when you died, that other players could pick up :P good shit :D
Your helper's name can be seen on the bottom right @ 8:55 + 9:12 + 9:17 - might want to reupload ;)
Glad you caught that too!
and all of the time he was casting eyes of the beast 5:50
could see the entire time he was casting eye of the beast as well lol
MINOTAUR
@@alawapr4024 oh i missed that but saw the name while trading
Bro, appreciate your work. truly inspiring. Please pay a little more attention to hiding the hunter's name next time. Keep it up!
This is good stuff. I hope that other servers can organize to manage the bot problem.
I could watch this all day! The amount of hunter bots I´ve seen the last 2 weeks leveling my warrior.. A hunter will be next to learn how to really hunt! :D
I love how there's a new video like every day. Like it's bad there's content at all because the bots exist but damn is it good content.
Heh heh! I love the use of the quest completion sound for the bounty bots being eliminated.
this makes us all happy. doing gods work. keep it up!
not even playin hardcore, but i loooove to see this
look forward to seeing more of these when the new server comes out this week :)
This content is actually so sick
this is actually very clever, I love the idea of a bounty board for HC classic characters
Makes the whole thing a real wild wild west
Eye of the Beast is such a good method! Good luck watchlisting hunter pets botters.
Also a super classic method of griefing players/bots.😂
”and I will remember to blur your name” - his name clearly visible, Minatora 😂😂😂
Anyway, good job guys!
damn i enjoy watching your video. this one is hella entertaining. shout out from the Philippines i can't afford playing classic retail but i enjoy watching vanilla wow related content.
This is simply insane, keep up the work BotHunters
The eye of the beast was an idea I had! I'm not the only one though. Since they have folks on a watch list they don't have pets on that list so its nice to see that it was actually used in action. Make sure to keep the pets names free of an actual name too! They can't put pet's named Owl or Boar on a watchlist because most of the time they have to "kill" thos mobs. So a named pet might not help at all because idk how far their so-called watchlist goes.
I am so proud to see these brave people at work
This is top tier content!
This is SO satisfying. I hope you fine men and women keep serving the community ❤
At 9:12 you give away the hunters name by hovering over the pet! Check bottom right corner!
It's in the eagle eye and eyes of the beast bar for minutes long lol
I saw it too. But you best me to it.
Jep, saw it and insta went for the comments
you can add a blur box via the youtube video editor and blur out the name without having to reupload
If Blizz could make this into an official event, killing bots for gold, it would help the community even more.
Now it's relying on a community member to spend their hard-earned gold to fund this
Bounty hunting in classic wow.
This is so cool.
I love the idea. Feels like this should be implemented on a hardcore PVP server.
I only ever played wow for a year on a private server some 10 years ago, but I love seeing cheaters systemmatically destroyed by the community. This is brilliant!
Seems like the A-Team decided to get rid of bots, omfg what awesome gamers we have here xD Nice guyz
You are doing God's work man, keep it up
@Madskillzzhc don't wanna be rude, but you forgot to blur his name in bottom right corner when you have your mouse on his pet!:(
9:17
You can also see his name of the middle of the screen when he casts "Eyes of the beast".
For fresh hc, make sure to hide your name in videos; in-game make sure to put special characters to make it hard to add to watch list, also change pet name frequently.
Let the community help out on setting the bounties: everyone can chip in whatever amount of gold they feel like; a prize pot for an evasive bot will be very tempting. Very soon you`ll have a lot of players going for the bounties AND you`'ll see how resourceful players can be when taking on a challenge: you may see ways to kill bots that never ever would cross your mind.
You didn't blur out the hunter's name at the end when you mouse over their owl pet
or for the entire duration of eagle eye at the start lol
Its also in the middle of the screen when they use eyes of the beast it shows the name
Yep bro farked up
Yo, reupload with pet info pop out of it. We can see his name
It is so funny how you hate them from the bottom of your heart. Keep up the good work!
Rofl your Discord notification at 0:33 and 4:41 just made me alt-tab to Discord to see if there was a notification. 🤣
LOL in hardcore this is taking the places of GMs keep doing the Lord's work
You should make a dedicated bot killing guild on fresh. People would absolutely eat up that content up. Keep the names anonymous so the bots can't do anything. You'd be the ultimate vigilante hero that classic wow needs.
Wow impressive, this actually has me interested in rolling on the new Hardcore server for this purpose only, I find pve boring. But this is awesome
Poor Minatora.. you didn't pay enough attention to the blurs!
Seriously , could have someone killed over a mistake this simple
That eye refresh from that far away is crazy never knew you could do it that far away. He use haste or anything I thought pet would despawn that far away?
Continuez les gars, nous avons besoin de héros comme vous :D
This is huge. You can start a guild called bot-ney hunters or something. All kinds of rewards, and have others do it for you. Insane
I'm pretty sure when you have the cast bar for Eyes of the Beast open on the second clip, the text there is the Hunter's name not the pet's, as the pet's HP bar just says "Owl". Might want to censor that out.
There's a few frames where you can see the hunters name and on the cast bar
Also at the end you said you wanted to blur their name but it appears in the bottom right when you scroll over them and their pet
6:27 his name isnt minatora is it because i see it on the cast bar 8:56 also in the bottom right corner, his name comes up with the tool tip
So me as mage could only theoretically do this with mobs that has some sort of fire breath kinda spell or totems or when a hunter has an owl or a bat as pet correct?
Im pretty sure how leashing work but I also recently have seen a paladin pulling mobs on a bot and the mobs just started randomly attacking the bot, I have no clue how that would even be possible without the bot doing anything.
Ofcourse when he heals or uses a pot he gets healing aggro but without doing anything? Love the wanting poster idea tho, sad that blizzard let it come to this.
Good stuff. Keep it up!
I report every bot i see in retail. Wish i could have a way to do this.. Good job man for even being that guy.
Keep up the great work.
This might be a stupid question but why don't the bots just feign death?
Cause they are bots!!! No real person is controlling them.
@@niledemitri3079 Even more reason why it should be automatic. It would be pretty easy to program it to feign when hp
It would then defy the purpose of farming. Bots have the pet healing as highest priority and that`s how they get killed by oom. In this set-up in Tanaris, FD would not matter because of the totems; you`d still be in combat.
Hats off to these guys, one-upping Mad now.
Har set nogle af dine andre videoer, den her fik mig til at subbe. Mere af det!
Exciting seeing this because a community project to rid the server of the bots
this is absolute cinema
The hero we needed!
Madskillz legit sounding the horn of Rohan, now we all gonna come out and smash the bots, we just needed a leader🤣
I don't even know if you can buy name changes on classic, but if you can, you owe that guy a name change brother hahaha
Bots be offing themselves and collecting the bounties
this actually makes HC look more interesting than the retail. like, killing bots has appeal to it :D
I wonder if rolling horde to kill alliance bots is worth it
I almost wish as you were sitting there just outside Gadgetzan doing your update that a bot would try to leave the city, detect you, and immediately run back inside to log off.
Hey man really GG videos, do you have a Bot Killer Guild ? what server ? I'm up ! Also, I would love to know if you have any advice of class beside Hunter to do that
Great job minatora on that final kill
Second Hunters UI is so good like wtf
Doing what the GMs only wish they could... Wait they can, but don't.
Peak content dude!!!!
i am loving all of this!!
You forgot to blur the name of the hunter while he was casting "Eye of the Beast"
The we were waiting for!
How do you confirm they’re bots before you kill them?
Madskillzz walked so [Redacted] could run - what a lad
Is it possible to kill the bot in Azshara (Satyr camps) and the other one at the Naga cave on Feathermoon on SkullRock? I have leveled 2 alts to 60 and those guys have not left in 2+ months. I will contribute a 100g for those guys.
@@nihsumi you can with social aggro. Or pull one of the big giants to the pet and scatter -> feign death 👍👍
You sound like an Eastern European music DJ, you sound like a cartoon version of an American 😂😂😂
This is fantastic content
fricken brilliant !!!!! yes yes yes. Good job everyone involved.
hey just so you know at 9:12 you can see the hunters name through the pets tooltip
love the rust headhshot sound
You watch this because you like watching bots getting killed. I watch this because I like griefing. We're not the same.
The bot hunters association leaves no job half done.
Blizzard be like: No way to to stop boting whilst the fcking bots fire up hundreds of /target or similar actions a second 😂
how come the bots never use FD?
Need a superfluous Dog the Bounty Hunter inspired intro for your videos now.