Well I was hit on Monday night
1)Were you using Honorbuddy, Gatherbuddy or both on the account? Both
2)If so, when was the last time?: it had been well over 12 hours since HB was last used
3)What profile were you using?: I used all sorts of different herb/mining/questing profiles
4)What combat class were you using? if None Just put Default then the Classname: Default for most
5)What plugins are you using?:
6)How many hours per day did you bot for?: Anywhere from 0 to 12 max
6.5)What honest percentage of time did you supervise your bot? 50% probably
7)How many auctions per day did you have?: 100ish on each account
8)Did you Use Any Other Bots, Hacks, or Mods? none
9)Was your account involved in gold selling? nope
10)EU or US realm? US
The email I received said I was banned for exchanging ingame gold for real-world goods. Didn't sell any gold at all but I did just purchase three 60 day gamecards from Precious with gold. Two for the accounts that were banned and one for my main. I used a new level one toon on one of the accounts to take the gold from my guild bank and deposit it into two different guild banks, at the request of Precious. It's a stretch, but that could by why one account was banned (account I did the gold trading on). But it doesn't explain how the other account was hit as well.
Some days I'd pvp, some I'd quest a low-level toon up, and others I'd herb/ore farm. I would occasionally do a longer 12 hour botting session perhaps twice a week, but it would usually vary between 0 and 6 hours. Nothing that could be considered excessive. Both accounts were in the same guild and both were banned within 15 minutes of each other. I'd post ore, herbs, bars, gems, etc on the AH. Tried to keep it at around 15 stacks of ore/herb at most at a time. I'd even hit a dungeon or two at night on each of my two main botting toons to get something other than AH-purchased gear.
I also had toons on my main account in the guild. I'd bot on that account too....battlegrounds, leveling alts, turning herbs into shoulder enchants and vendoring, and ore to gems. Never actual ore/herb farming. That account was not banned.
Of course I tried to fight the ban on one of the accounts...and of course no-go. They wouldn't overturn the ban.
I'm not mad about it at all, but then again I'm not sure why I was targeted. There are other bots posting 50-100+ stacks at one time on the AH so my usage was fairly small yet they are still posting massive amounts of stuff and I was banned. I'm guessing my competition kept reporting me, which eventually got Blizzard's attention. I'm not sure what else would have put the spotlight on me, so to speak.
1)Were you using Honorbuddy, Gatherbuddy or both on the account? Both
2)If so, when was the last time?: it had been well over 12 hours since HB was last used
3)What profile were you using?: I used all sorts of different herb/mining/questing profiles
4)What combat class were you using? if None Just put Default then the Classname: Default for most
5)What plugins are you using?:
6)How many hours per day did you bot for?: Anywhere from 0 to 12 max
6.5)What honest percentage of time did you supervise your bot? 50% probably
7)How many auctions per day did you have?: 100ish on each account
8)Did you Use Any Other Bots, Hacks, or Mods? none
9)Was your account involved in gold selling? nope
10)EU or US realm? US
The email I received said I was banned for exchanging ingame gold for real-world goods. Didn't sell any gold at all but I did just purchase three 60 day gamecards from Precious with gold. Two for the accounts that were banned and one for my main. I used a new level one toon on one of the accounts to take the gold from my guild bank and deposit it into two different guild banks, at the request of Precious. It's a stretch, but that could by why one account was banned (account I did the gold trading on). But it doesn't explain how the other account was hit as well.
Some days I'd pvp, some I'd quest a low-level toon up, and others I'd herb/ore farm. I would occasionally do a longer 12 hour botting session perhaps twice a week, but it would usually vary between 0 and 6 hours. Nothing that could be considered excessive. Both accounts were in the same guild and both were banned within 15 minutes of each other. I'd post ore, herbs, bars, gems, etc on the AH. Tried to keep it at around 15 stacks of ore/herb at most at a time. I'd even hit a dungeon or two at night on each of my two main botting toons to get something other than AH-purchased gear.
I also had toons on my main account in the guild. I'd bot on that account too....battlegrounds, leveling alts, turning herbs into shoulder enchants and vendoring, and ore to gems. Never actual ore/herb farming. That account was not banned.
Of course I tried to fight the ban on one of the accounts...and of course no-go. They wouldn't overturn the ban.
I'm not mad about it at all, but then again I'm not sure why I was targeted. There are other bots posting 50-100+ stacks at one time on the AH so my usage was fairly small yet they are still posting massive amounts of stuff and I was banned. I'm guessing my competition kept reporting me, which eventually got Blizzard's attention. I'm not sure what else would have put the spotlight on me, so to speak.
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