Due to RL shit, I couldn't post before now. In the last 24 hours I not only lost my main play account but my business lost its lease due to landlord shenanigans.
I knew the risks. And I knew eventually Blizzard would detect things in a way they felt they could prosecute. Since originally playing WoW I have had 4 spinal fusions with nerve damage to my hands. I simply don't have the ability to raid multiple hours without some assistance (I can out-DPS my bot when playing manually, but I can't play manually more than an hour before I get the shakes). So ... HB allowed me to raid another 18 months longer than I would have been able to otherwise.
I'll do it all again when my ban is lifted until detected.
Raiding is the only thing I enjoy enough to pay for WoW and other than when the bot is detectable by spying rather than reports I am very solid on not using the bot in a way that gathers reports (to the point of manually -gimping- my DPS to look less efficient as well as never using it for anything but DPS ... no interrupts, no Cooldowns, no defensive cooldowns, no movement).
Combat routines: I alternated between Simcraft (most recent versions with Lua calls removed after the recent tripwire) and Enyo+Tuanha (when running Simcraft I ran Singular but due to how Simcraft works Singular is never called). For the last few days I was using YRB2 experimentally but never raided with it. And I literally paid for YRB2 the day I got banned.
I knew the risks. And I knew eventually Blizzard would detect things in a way they felt they could prosecute. Since originally playing WoW I have had 4 spinal fusions with nerve damage to my hands. I simply don't have the ability to raid multiple hours without some assistance (I can out-DPS my bot when playing manually, but I can't play manually more than an hour before I get the shakes). So ... HB allowed me to raid another 18 months longer than I would have been able to otherwise.
I'll do it all again when my ban is lifted until detected.
Raiding is the only thing I enjoy enough to pay for WoW and other than when the bot is detectable by spying rather than reports I am very solid on not using the bot in a way that gathers reports (to the point of manually -gimping- my DPS to look less efficient as well as never using it for anything but DPS ... no interrupts, no Cooldowns, no defensive cooldowns, no movement).
Both, but 99% was Honorbuddy. Gatherbuddy was months ago when materials actually mattered before Garrisons. Also a little fishing buddy.
Release
Tuesday night, 5/12/2015, Pacific time, ending around 9pm Pacific.
No profiles recently. In the past I had used various Mining and Herbalism profiles at the beginning of WoD along with some pet battle profiles that never worked well (1 or 2 nights).
Combat class: Ret Paladin
Combat routines: I alternated between Simcraft (most recent versions with Lua calls removed after the recent tripwire) and Enyo+Tuanha (when running Simcraft I ran Singular but due to how Simcraft works Singular is never called). For the last few days I was using YRB2 experimentally but never raided with it. And I literally paid for YRB2 the day I got banned.
I disable all plugins when raiding. Any gathering and questing with plugins was back in the 6.0 timeframe and I don't have an easy recollection but usually just Auto-Equip, Item4Aura and No Drown. When I played with Pet leveling around 2 months ago I used PokeBuddy and all of the plugins it requires.
Anywhere from 0 on non-raid nights to 8 on raid nights.
100% even when gathering, with paranoiac level of making sure I never activated it with players around and never allowed it to face into walls.
Anywhere from 0 (most days) to 150 on the occasional bank cleanout, but NONE were ever done by the bots.
No.
No.
US.
Actual paid account with all upgrades paid as they came out and multiple server transfers.