As a paying customer of Demonbuddy, I'd like to preface this post by stating that I am ABSOLUTELY NOT against botting in MMOs in any way shape or form. In fact, I love botting, and I'd first like to thank the creators of the buddybots for doing an amazing job creating an amazing product that I would definitely pay more than once for.
Recently I've been browsing the Honorbuddy forums after coming back to WoW from a long (4+ year) hiatus from the game. After a couple days on these forums I've come to the realization that pretty much 95% of WoW can be botted, automated, and farmed by honorbuddy-- achievements, transmog runs, rep grinding, battlegrounds, and even raids. Probably the only thing that Honorbuddy cannot do is arenas, which leads me to the question: at what point is botting WoW just too much?
I mean I can totally understand botting to max level, I can absolutely understand botting for gold, and I can also (sort of) understand botting old raids for transmog gear. Botting the aforementioned aspects of WoW is a means to an end: botting in order to access the end game content, to be able to play with people at the highest level.
But then what about people who use Honorbuddy and its mods to run entire rotations for their dps and healing cycles in current raiding content? And what about people who jump into battlegrounds with Honorbuddy controlling and automating their entire damage rotation? Incidentally, I started reading the HB forums at the release of 5.3 and the reaction to the bot being down kind of confounded me. People were actually ditching raids and calling out of raids because they literally didn't know how to play their own class without HB. This content is the meat of the game... the part that is supposedly the "fun" part I guess. I've always seen botting as a way to get to the content without manually grinding completely inane and boring stuff like leveling all the way to 90. However, when people start botting pretty much every single thing, even things that are supposed to be fun when played by yourself, I get confused.
I guess this thread is directed to those people I mentioned in my post. Remember this isn't an attack on the most hardcore botters on HB, I'm just trying to stir up some dialogue on endgame botting and maybe understanding the mindset of automating the endgame content which I had always assumed to be something better done manually, regardless of how much I myself have botted.
tldr: If you automate and bot endgame content (raids, bgs) why?
Recently I've been browsing the Honorbuddy forums after coming back to WoW from a long (4+ year) hiatus from the game. After a couple days on these forums I've come to the realization that pretty much 95% of WoW can be botted, automated, and farmed by honorbuddy-- achievements, transmog runs, rep grinding, battlegrounds, and even raids. Probably the only thing that Honorbuddy cannot do is arenas, which leads me to the question: at what point is botting WoW just too much?
I mean I can totally understand botting to max level, I can absolutely understand botting for gold, and I can also (sort of) understand botting old raids for transmog gear. Botting the aforementioned aspects of WoW is a means to an end: botting in order to access the end game content, to be able to play with people at the highest level.
But then what about people who use Honorbuddy and its mods to run entire rotations for their dps and healing cycles in current raiding content? And what about people who jump into battlegrounds with Honorbuddy controlling and automating their entire damage rotation? Incidentally, I started reading the HB forums at the release of 5.3 and the reaction to the bot being down kind of confounded me. People were actually ditching raids and calling out of raids because they literally didn't know how to play their own class without HB. This content is the meat of the game... the part that is supposedly the "fun" part I guess. I've always seen botting as a way to get to the content without manually grinding completely inane and boring stuff like leveling all the way to 90. However, when people start botting pretty much every single thing, even things that are supposed to be fun when played by yourself, I get confused.
I guess this thread is directed to those people I mentioned in my post. Remember this isn't an attack on the most hardcore botters on HB, I'm just trying to stir up some dialogue on endgame botting and maybe understanding the mindset of automating the endgame content which I had always assumed to be something better done manually, regardless of how much I myself have botted.
tldr: If you automate and bot endgame content (raids, bgs) why?
