4x accounts 72hrs suspension

[Gunmetal]

I just got hit by 72hr suspension on 4 of my 5 accounts. The weird thing is that I botted on my main account as well...all day today as a matter of fact, but it was the one that didn't get banned. The others I only bot 10hrs at most a day and usually not afk. I always monitor to make sure they are not stuck and never had anyone whisper or accuse me of botting.

The only difference is that the 4 that got banned did run some BGs...not heavily, but they did run, so it's def possible they got reported in the BGs.

1)Were you using Honorbuddy, Gatherbuddy or both on the account?: Honorbuddy

2)If so, when was the last time?: Was running mixmode grind/pvp when I got disconnected at approx 8pm 01/13/11

3)What profile were you using?: Kick's 1-60 Grinding profile

4)What combat class were you using? if None Just put Default then the Classname: Convalesce

5)What plugins are you using?: Squire, FVNav, Autoequip, MrAutoFight, Refreshment Detection

6)How many hours per day did you bot for?: 6-8 on average...never unattended for more than 1hr

7)How many auctions per day did you have?: zero - mailed all to my main account which was untouched, most items were disenchanted and main account has less than 50 auctions up at the same time usually

8)Did you Use Any Other Bots, Hacks, or Mods?: nope

9)Was your account involved in gold selling?: never

10)EU or US realm?: US - RPPVP server

also want to add that these were all unguilded Level 55-58 pallys that I occasionally ran as a multibox group...mostly doing instance runs

 

[yougod]

Don't know.. My RAF account got banned and I was botting the main account all day and did BGs all day with it as well.. The RAF account I had it grind from 20-60 but none at all today or yesterday.

 

[Gunmetal]

actually, now that I think about it, the banned accounts did mostly grinding between 20-50 while my main account did mostly questing

 

[Lister]

Grinding is not safe anymore!

 

[Gunmetal]

If you look back at HB's history, you'll notice that when questing was working, there were very few bans. Now with all the new quests that HB can't handle, we've resorted to using grind profiles and are beginning to see a rise in banhammers.

To add a little more detail to my situation here are some facts...

• I've been using HB for a couple months and most of my initial botting was using quest profiles, never for long sessions and always with me nearby monitoring.
  
• After I purchased Lifetime the first week of Jan, I started running my toons using grind profiles and mixed mode in AV. Occasionally I would boost them in dungeons manually with my main.
  
• I never did extremely long sessions. Most of the longer sessions were anywhere between 4-6hrs continuously...with max about 12hrs in a day.
  
• The longest stretch was earlier this week when I left them online for about 6hrs in mixed mode doing AV and then again with 2 bots about 8-10hrs during the day while I was at work monitoring them over Teamviewer...the same day they all got banned.
  
• The main account I have also botted...mostly questing between 70-80, then most recently Archaeology for almost 10hrs a day, PVP using the new BG bot and some very light grinding for a couple hours in Hyjal. I also play this account manually in the evenings doing quests. It is still active as of this morning.