Druids are currently making a fortune in WoW – and it’s fully automated. A player has discovered a gigantic number of bots.
That there are bots in World of Warcraft is no big secret. Almost everyone has encountered a bot or two that is automatically performing some activity. However, a player on the WoW subreddit has supposedly discovered a huge “bot farm.” Several hundred druids are there farming a significant amount of gold. One of the easiest gold farming methods is actually disappearing today.
What is it about? The Reddit user AchmedTDT posted a small video. It shows him standing in front of the instance entrance to the Iron Docks, a dungeon from Warlords of Draenor. He wanted to catch up on some old achievements here when he was presented with a strange sight. Druids in large numbers are streaming out of the dungeon and immediately re-entering it.
The Largest Bot Farm in WoW’s History. from r/wow
Why are the Iron Docks so popular? The Iron Docks is a fairly simple instance with numerous humanoid enemies, especially at the beginning. They all drop a solid amount of loot that can easily be turned into gold through NPC vendors. With a sufficiently high number of characters, a massive amount of gold can be generated.
The druids exit the dungeon to reset it and then immediately enter it again. This can be done up to 10 times per hour, allowing them to farm gold almost continuously. Since the first boss of the dungeon is available after a few meters and is accompanied by many trash mobs, it’s a quickly earned amount of several hundred gold pieces in just a few moments. Even more extreme are the gold farming bots in China.
Other dungeons from Warlords of Draenor are not so well suited for this. They either have a “confusing” design over multiple levels or not such large groups of trash mobs at the beginning, which reduces the effectiveness and therefore the “gold per hour” factor.
Check your realm to see how many druids are currently in the Iron Docks – simply use “/who Iron Docks” or “/wer Eisendocks”.
