Botted 170 hours on a monk, got 3 ancient torches, about 20 torches in total. First ancient torch was the best rolled, highest dmg/dmg%, rerollable for LPSS with spirit secondary + almost max RCR on WoL and dmg. Gambled roughly 60k shards(swapped on and off using full vs common profiles. double blood goblins was GREAT but broke the bot early on. blood goblins still GG, cache bug im still using as of today to gamble on monk.) ended up making my raekor barb finally cuz monk was getting a bit tiresome(I bot my chars up, get them good gear, then play in my spare time, grifts, etc, then bot again when sleeping. Anyway, I hit 70 on my barb, had a furnace drop within 10 minutes, it was one of the BEST possible rolls a non ancient could get, post roll it was around 3750dps, with 49% elite dmg, 10% CDR, str 10% dmg 199exp per kill secondary roll. A day later I had ANOTHER furnace drop, this time I was running turbohud, so I heard the "ancient the furnace" text to speech. knew it was good no matter what...
ID'd it, post reroll = 4301dps 50% furnace with 1400str/sta 10% dmg rolled. life per kill secondary roll...needless to say, fucking great considering I also gambled a ancient vile ward with 8cdr and 14% FC dmg. Just got my 3rd ancient furnace, drop on barb its 37xx dps with str sta area dmg...really tempted to reroll it dex for possible monk use, the other non ancients i took for a wizard firebird one for a jade WD that hasn't been made yet. The only thing I can't decide is that non ancient 3700dps with 10% CDR is perfect for a pony sader weapon. But I also have a ancient heart slaughter 4300dps 30% physical, pretty sure HS wins out if im good on CDR. Anyway that is super off topic, but I am botting monk again currently for 2handers(hopefuly anc flying dragon, only just saw my first FD of season yesterday)
anyway bans, no bans, no big deal for me. I am giving d3 one more shot if I get banned, I still have 3-4 d3 accounts left over that survived the first ban wave of DB in vanilla from the rmah gold sarkoth bot scripts. All they need is a $15 RoS key activation and good to go again. But I have been thinking a lot lately of WoW, Got a free warlords of draenor expansion copy in the mail a month back so wouldn't mind giving WoW a whirl again if I do get banned, or s3/2.2.0 turns out to be a shitfest. My last account got banned at para 901, best in slot every class just as ancients were introduced so technically half and half, 200gifts+. Since S2 release(I played lvl 1-70 para 1-200 manually to get my m6 set going before botting) and I am back over para 750 in season, with better gear then I ever had before since its FULL ancient. But I have a feeling a lot of it doesn't mean shit, with the 2.2.0 notes so much stuff is changing, esp builds. M6 seems to be staying the same, but variations are opening up and blizzard already nerfed them multiple times into the ground on PTR so who knows. DH always been my favorite class , but DB bots a raekor barb super sweet though I heard raekor barb is dead in 2.2.0(can pull 11-13m exp/hr easy with raekor barb botting grifts, but less LPH overall, used my DH to run trials 300 times to stack grift 33-36 keys. Worked almost as good, but raekor charge and DB combat routine AI is just charge to the end makes exp super good.
tldr extended version: i don't even know what i posted, im high as fuck. Who cares if they ban again, people gonna bot. Anyone who honestly plays this game manually past para 500 with ideals that 'its gonna change for the better' is a fucking idiot in my mind. It is not hard to get para 1-500 as a average gamer, any higher you really gotta be a power player or something especially in a season like the length of s2. I feel really bad for the legit players who are para 800+ and actually play D3 like its a game that is anything but solo player considering no auction house, no trading/selling. All you can do is the same farming shit over and over for RNG items, which even by botting people have proven you can do 500hrs and NOT get the item you want