Nostalrius Begins - Quality wow vanilla realm (1.12)

So today I was witness to a new elaborate afk strategy in AB executed to perfection by Horde's number 1 chinese Luodanlun (EDIT: ROGUE). Basically what he was doing is that he was running around in stealth whole BG, positioning himself close to fights (in stealth) and not doing anything. The purpose of this behaviour was obviously to stay throughout the BG and leech the honor that the rest of us were getting by participating in the fights. He is not "afk" in the sense that he is very deliberately moving around, staying active all the time. In practice however, he definately is AFK since he didn't fight throughout the WHOLE BG (it was a 3-2 cap) except for once during GM when I asked him for the second time why he wasn't participating in the fights.

Now, I know that the following screenshot is not definitive proof, but it is indicative because it would seem unreasonable to have 48 honor kills with only 1 death and 1 killing blow. If we assume that my claim is right, i.e. that what he is doing effectively constitutes being AFK, then surely it would be intolerable? The purpose of this thread is to discuss this issue and for everyone else to contribute with screenshots when they find Luodanlun (and others) afking like this.

SS:

How are you away from the keyboard, while moving around?

Yes, AFK honor farming is against the rules, IIRC. Report it with an ingame ticket and that screenshot.

cleary hes not afk since hes moving and following where fights are, yet you say he doesnt aid the fighting? seems kinda stupid

He could be healing maybe?

Colezz wrote:cleary hes not afk since hes moving and following where fights are, yet you say he doesnt aid the fighting? seems kinda stupid

Read it again. The reason hes doing that is he gots lots of honor that way without having to do anything but move from one fight to the next, theres no downtime from dying. Look at his hks.

xwraith wrote:

Colezz wrote:cleary hes not afk since hes moving and following where fights are, yet you say he doesnt aid the fighting? seems kinda stupid

Read it again. The reason hes doing that is he gots lots of honor that way without having to do anything but move from one fight to the next, theres no downtime from dying. Look at his hks.

yes i understand that, but if you can sit at the computer and move from one fight to next why not open on a healer or something? if the fight is outnumbered or its a loss i understand he'd stay stealth so no down time from dying, but surely theres potential for more hk's if he helped fight

To argue this is in anyway acceptable, is to argue running UBRS with one dps not engaging the entire time, but merely following, is ok. Same thing. If everyone signs up for a carry, then it would be fine.

However, I don't see how this could technically be against the rules as he is not actually AFK. Dunno.