Neverwinter changes up skill nodes to fight botting

The bots of 2016 aren’t as cool as the Transformers and Go-Bots of yesteryear told us they’d be. Instead of saving the world and giving us awesome rides to school, these bots are generally gunking up MMO economies and causing both players and developers headaches. In response to bots swarming over skill nodes in Neverwinter, Cryptic announced that it will be changing the loot tables of these nodes to hopefully deprive farmers of the incentive.

“Over the past months, our team has taken several actions to combat botting in Neverwinter,” the team said. “One aspect that several players have identified as needing to be addressed is that of skill nodes. Based on community feedback, and in our continued effort to take action against botting, we are removing refinement item drops from skill nodes.”

As part of the change, mobs will drop enchantments and runestones more often while skill nodes will now have a chance to spit out insignias for mount upgrades.