Please kill the apparent gold farmer bot on Heroic Republic's Most Wanted

Every time I do the heroic Republic's Most Wanted on Coruscant, I see this bot, sometimes multiple copies of it:

https://i.imgur.com/3MGfAgL.png

The bot's script is attempting to loot one of the quest mobs in the heroic. It appears when I'm both in and out of combat until I cease doing any combat for a few minutes. If I engage in combat again, anywhere within the heroic, the bots reappear.

I'm sure it's gold farmers.

It looks more like it's a case of an instance bleeding through

I'm sure it's not. If you look closely (er, with nameplates turned on), it's someone's companion(1). I see the same thing in the same place on The Leviathan.

(1) Look also at the armour set. It's Firebrand.

So you're telling me that the same player using that particular companion is standing over the same mob in the same heroic in the exact same location every time trying to loot every time I run that heroic? Seriously?

I am hanging out in the heroic with companion names turned on, and I'm pausing a few minutes between mobs. At the beginning of each new aggro, the same 4 players, whose names I won't mention here because it's against he rules, appear, over and over.

So.

How many players do you know hang out for 15 minutes in the same heroic, all using the same companion, and how likely is it that the same 4 players would hang out in the same heroic for that amount of time, and only appear when I start aggro?

Edit: And none of them replied to my whispers when I asked them if they had just looted in the Republic's Most Wanted heroic.

Edit: They're on a clock. I'll have to time when they start.
Edit: Seems to be slightly more than a minute.
Edit: None of them are guilded.
Edit: I am thinking these level 70+ unguilded toons are compromised accounts.

No. I'm telling you that whatever it is that's happening, it's *not* a player stuck in there doing that. It happens on *my* server, and the companion looks exactly the same as in your screenshot, in exactly the same place.

It's not an exploit, it's a simple visual bug that got introduced into the game through a case of phase bleeding that is repeating itself in a loop and is happening to all of us (myself included). If it was an exploit they would have fixed it by now. Since it has been in the game for many months it doesn't seem to be high on the priority list.

I don't agree with you. If you use the search function to look for unguilded players by accident, and I discovered there are TONS - always 40-50 unguilded, level 70, Jedi Shadows on Coruscant or on Dromund Kaas Strongholds. Then I search for the other servers, and all of them.

These same players are on all day, every day, day or night... doesn't matter, on a 24/7, I'm confused for a long time. Occasionally, I found they were botting at [HEROIC 2+] Republic's Most Wanted on Coruscant. What needs to be emphasized is that you will only find them when they use Heroic Transports. They were keeping stealth status when they in and out flashpoit.

I have a list for these farmers' ID. Should I paste here?

No, definately not, you could get in to trouble for it. Send a pm to one of the community managers, or eric musco, with the names, and what you believe. They will take it from there


Companion is definately firebrand, and she's looking at the pc looting.