Blizzard is taking bigger steps to combat World of Warcraft Classic's botting problem, including banning nearly 120,000 accounts and bringing back restrictions around who can create and play as the game's popular Death Knight class.

In a post on the Wrath of the Lich King Classic forums, Blizzard announced it had banned close to 120,000 "malicious accounts" from the game's Wrath Classic and Classic Era servers. Blizzard notes that the most recent ban is in addition to its usual ban waves, which it said often includes "tens of thousands of accounts per week."

This time, however, Blizzard is going one step further. Back when Wrath of the Lich King originally launched in 2008, players needed to already have a level-55 character on the same server where they wanted to create a Death Knight in order to do so. However, that wasn't the case for Wrath Classic's launch, where Blizzard allowed every account to create a single Death Knight character with no restrictions. That was due to Blizzard wanting to allow players to play with their friends and jump right into Wrath Classic without the need to spend dozens of hours leveling through the content from the base version of WoW.