Three bots in my WOW lifetime. I was in Barrens on my lone char trying to get it leveled up to match my team. I ran across a char fishing. No problem so far. But I had just found out how to do the harpy quests up north, so I was going up and back quite a bit. I see him there for like 30 mins. Dang, that is a dedicated guy fishing.... I ask him what he is fishing for (deviate fish). Nothing. I watch him and he moves in a pattern that puts him in the water up to his waist, casts like 5 times, then moves out and over to another spot and does same thing. Back and forth. He must not want the school of fish that show up cause he just ingores them and keeps doing his routine. He is lvl 6 in a moderately higher level area (15 mobs around him) and he just moves in a exactly predictable pattern. So I report him. Then move on. Report gets answered in 30 mins (back in the day). Nothing since they can't tell me what actions they took. No biggie. Next day, guess who is back. I friend him so I can check on him later. 32 hours signed on, no movement from zone, only fishing. Dang that guy is good at not sleeping. I report him again. 4 days goes by with him still there and then he disappears. Maybe they had to research how to ban him better, but it still bothered me, that I could see it, a GM could see it and nothing happened.

Next was a char fighting turtles up by the lake south of UC. He walked forward a little, targeted a mob, fought it and then skinned it, and moved forward again. Clunky movement, predictable actions, no response to whispers. Reported. I didn't check on him again, since I didn't want to see him there for a week before they acted on him.

Next one was in Shimmering Flats. Target a turtle, attack it, skin it and move on. Reported. This time, I wasn't going to let them get away with it, so I stole his kills for like 25 mins. It was a little fun, then it got to be old and I got bored. A char comes on and says, "Stop it". Opps. Did I just pick on a real person? Nope, he goes back, exactly same movement, same attacks and keeps going. There are other mobs to kill right around him. You can see like 5-8 mobs within range, but he won't switch mobs until it dies. If it was a real person, he would see it was tapped, and switch to a new mob and kill it, but he didn't.

I haven't watched close enough to bots in BGs, but other people say they are there. I would think Blizzard could track a char that always moves 5 steps left, then 3 steps right and then 25 steps forward. Maybe the bots are smarter than that, but still. Seems like they would catch them faster than we do, but it doesn't seem that way. It is like the people in the bank have to tell the police that people are robbing the bank. Isn't there supposed to be cops and a panic button to do that for us?