To help stop the botting

Okay i know alot of you guys 55 which ok np to each there own. i wont really get into that one much besides easy way to fix the 55 monk is make it so you can't double up the same rune twice. like 2 Sup Smiting Prayers or 2 major of same thing or 2 minor of same thing etc...

But anyway here is what i was really making this topic about...

I noticed that you can do hard mode with ANY char on your account as long as you had beat the chapter once with any char you have. well to stop the massive HM Bot Farming thats going on make it so that you HAVE to beat the chapter with the char to be able to do hard mode. yeah alot of you might booo and go wtf you thinking thats just plain stupid and to much grind for it. well i thought 1st off Hard Mode was like a present from A-Net saying here you beat the game now play something more challenging if you choose. But don't think it's right that every char gets to do it because a 1 char made it through. But i seriously would slow down the botters for some area's.

But anyway i'll keep it kinda short with this and let the coments begin. just i really think would slow it down. And so you know i not saying this for the normal players here but mostly to just stop the bots.

how would this help stop the bots . ..

they obviously got one of their characters through each campaign on the accoutn that they're botting on. all this will do is give them a minor speed bump. the character that's being botted with is most likely the only character on the account that actually sees any use so it was probably that one that was rushed to the end of the game anyways.

Enko's got my point right there! ^^

There's been a lot of noise about the difficulty of finding people to do HM with,- and now you wanna shut down the possibility of getting a guildie to whip out his monkey (that didn't finish the game yet) and give you a hand with a HM mission.
Its like in RL - you have to be carefull you don't impede the general populace (to much) when trying to create laws that stop crime.

With this said - i too, would like to see Anet do something to stop the bots, but i perceive no easy options!

I don't like this idea one bit.

Personally to stop the bots I would change the targeting system so that loot drops can't be targeted (Make it so you have to manually click on them with the mouse).

What they should do i completely kill the 55 farming, by making the regeneration act as a % regeneration based on HP instead of a fixed regeneration.
The better regeneration you can have, the less health you regen, since you have less health.

That way, the more health you have the mre hp you regen, and you kill 55 farming for ever.

I tottaly agree with that and shouldnt it be anets job anyway to get rid of the bots... I always thought guildwars was suppose to be bot free from thrid party programs and stuff... I remember that they use to have bots in elona or whatever and they got rid of them and banned alot of people...

Actually easiest way to KILL the 55 is just make it so you can double stack the same rune on yourself. like 2 Sup smiting or 2 Sup healing whatever you use for the 5th extra piece.

that won't stop bots. they'll just use a different build. there are other non 55 solo builds you know . ..

that won't really do anything to stop the 55 either. most people (well at least the ones that pay attention to their skills) don't even run 55 anymore. they run 105-139 hp since shieldings hands and shield of absorption reduces that down to 0 after Protective Spirit anyways.

Bots can't be killed. They could farm outside of Ascalon and they would still make money, as they don't care how long it takes. Players do on the other hand. Killing 55 or any other farming method would affect legit players more than the bots. Anet screwed us because of bots often enough already, yet the bots are still here. All they got was a bunch of pissed players.

you know what would bone bots for a while, and players would not even notice it at all, dont allow people to target signs in town, bots cant find signs, bots cant leave towns, players dont care.

of course botters will find a way around it but boy would it screw em for a while lol