Comments on: Auto Afk Reporting Mod – HeroStatus

By: aroihkin

aroihkin — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:52:55 +0000

Old post is old, but I found it while googling for this very thing. Thankfully, I play Horde, so shadowmeld isn’t an issue on my team.

Started using this today, haven’t had the chance to make sure it was actually reporting (4.3 — I took a version off curse instead of the linked one) but it hasn’t caused any trouble. The curse version comes with options to turn off guild report and it seems to come silenced by default.

By: Pugnacious Priest

Pugnacious Priest — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:14:27 +0000

I’ll confess to having it turned off- it got crazy on av to the point if embarrassment . Every wave of afkers kicked out just bought more afkers in. Maybe if it turned into an alert- eg suspect that someone is afk based on the same criteria but you still need to manually assess and manually report. Except for the crazy av I am certain ive not reported anyone in error. Besides the only stealth that requires you to be still is shadow meld, and I would get bored standing still stealthed on my Druid. Have noticed an decrease in afkers the last 2 weeks though

By: Gnomeaggedon

Gnomeaggedon — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:10:28 +0000

I have now been reported out of too many BGs while guarding nodes of importance to use mods like these.

I did use one a while back.. I actually reported a mate out of a BG.. felt bad as I was the one that asked them to guard a node.

It’s a hard call and still has its issues.

I have been getting a lot of WSG bots, that constantly spam heals on themselves (beating the other requirement). I had 2 or 3 in a row where 3 bots stood on top of each other in the flag room the whole game.

I knew, because that was where I positioned myself as goalie… they were in combat often enough and healing often enough to avoid both addon and manual report.

Still, I wont use an autoreporter again, too easy to punish those actually doing the right thing.

I think the worst I had was 10 bots in SotA, that was in the 80-85 range… slack.

By: The truth

The truth — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:50:32 +0000

This addon has potential, but could easily report people that are actually playing.. think EOTS .. you claim DR.. and actually guard it.. you won’t have any kills or damage if nobody comes to attack you… and if you are a stealth class you may be still and motionless for over a min.. … afk? .. no, Just guarding a base ready for a sneak attack on any would be aggressors.

By: Zetliam

Zetliam — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:10:27 +0000

@Chouette, I believe this addon takes two parameters to do the AFK reporting. One, you have to have done under 35K damage or healing. Two, you also have to stand still for longer than a minute. @85 if you go and attack one person you will be over 35k then it sounds like you will no longer be flagged.

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The Daily Quest: Bravely into battle | WoW Cata Leveling Guide — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 06:00:50 +0000

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By: Chouette

Chouette — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:17:54 +0000

It does concern me a little that this may stop me from using shadowmeld to guard objectives – I can easily clock up more than a minute of standing still watching a target on approach and waiting to snipe them down.

By: The Daily Quest: Bravely into battle | Warcraft Ink

The Daily Quest: Bravely into battle | Warcraft Ink — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:15:46 +0000

[...] Pugnacious Priest battles against a different kind of enemy — AFKers — with a handy mod. [...]

By: Shiva

Shiva — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:35:24 +0000

It amuses me how people try to do the lifeless brainless thing when the game is already so easy to level.

By: Kay

Kay — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:30:32 +0000

Wouldn’t it be great if Blizzard decided that this is one of the AddOns they’d like to have in the game as a standard thing? As they did with QuestHelper, PowerAuras, etc.

Unfortunately, it probably also means there’ll be a bit of an arms race. People leeching honor will just do a bit of healing or damage, and move around a bit – perhaps even with a bot; just the minimum required to avoid detection, but not actually playing the game properly, and thus still being a drag on the team they’re in.

Rated battlegrounds are the only sensible way forward; I just wish they weren’t so buggy. –Kay