While I understand some of the complexities of the game and program writing, is there truly not a fully functioning, afkable questing profiles available for today's game? I have yet to find one in the forums (and I've tested many)! A few (very few) were "updated" right after Cata hit, but most were written before cata or early last year and to much in the game has changed, that they simply don't have the quests that can be implemented into the profile , or for whatever reason, won't work with HB now. I haven't seen a whole lot of new ones made with the new hb that well. In truth, I haven't seen any so far. There are just way too many hang ups in most of the profiles available right now and imo, way too much grind in them, when now from what I can see, many of the quests can be implimented into a profile. I got pretty ticked while running a profile in hellfire and my toon wouldn't stop and ran smack dab into the fel reaver. The toon never even bothered to slow down! I know there's a way in a profile to make a toon avoid that monster! But it sure didn't seem implemented into the profile I'm running atm. If someone was watching that and knew anything about a bot, they'd sure comment that it was a bot after seeing that sorta thing. Maybe even have turned me in thereby getting my account banned.
But alas! I decided the problem wasn't with the HB/GB program (though it does have some navigation bugs.. I noticed this making my own grinding profile.) so much itself, but rather, put it too, just plain ole outdated profiles and people using 80-85 toons to make them, instead of making the profiles using the level of toon for the area to make them.
I say the latter, because many of the profiles will run your toon right through a group of mobs, that wouldn't agro on a level 85 toon, but will jump all over one of it's own level + or_ a level or two, be it the opposite faction or like the one I'm running now, that just ran me through every Orge, shaman mob north of Zebra'jin in Zanger to get to its quest area and then at level 63 ran me through Nagrand where the toon ran into those walking elephants on the path that are level 67 (thank goodness the one that did it is a pretty well geared dk). Had it done that on my mage, it would have died.
But then the question does become: Is it the profile or the HB program causing it? A combination of both or, one or the other.
Sure, you can put on "kill mobs between hotspots" which of course grants xp, but normally and having run over 15 toons to 85 manually, this isn't something most will do. In fact, most at level 62-63 simply wouldn't do it, unless they were suicidal, exceptionally geared, or was wanting to grind for something there. They'd instead, take the most avoidance available route they could find, to get to the area they needed to be in. So too, would a profile writer using the right level toon for the area, make sure the hotspots they implemented, also would avoid such things. The fact that many profiles don't do this, makes me believe that they were made with high level toons, instead of the level toon for the particular quest area or because the profiles are considerably older than the newest HB/GB. Perhaps it would be wiser to use the most recent HB to get the paths etc rather than relying on old paths that today may and often do have something there that wasn't there a year ago.
I well understand we all have other life's outside of botting and wow. But isn't there someone in the community, salty enough that can write one that is better than what is available at present! I've looked into doing it myself and tried, but I just simply don't have the knowhow. I do well writing my own grinding profiles, such as the one I just wrote for myself for skinning that is FULLY afkable. Not one hang up in 8 hours! But grinding profiles aren't that hard... everyone can go see the how-to on that and see it's pretty easy. The point is ,that I'm not that good and simply don't' know enough to write a questing one, or I wouldn't be here typing this. So I implore, beseech, beg (whatever adjective one wants) those that do have the know-how and skill, to please, please, help us dummies that can't seem to figure out how to, and make new ones for us all. I do not mean any disrespect toward anyone that have written the previous ones (after trying to write one myself, I know how involved they can get, in order to make one as close to perfect as can be), and my apologies to you if it seems to come out that way to you in this write. But we need new and better working profiles. It's not enough to take aprofile that is a year old, and try to implement a few changes here and there into it. That so far, doesn't seem to be working all that well overall. The game evolves fairly quickly now-a-days, so too must HB/Gb and profiles, if we are to be able to take it to botting bliss for even me a questing profile writting dummy.
Yes, I've read every how-to I can find in these forums. From installation, set up, to writing profiles on grinding , CCs and questing. Point is, I'm setting things up as prescribed and described for every profile I've tried, and while they will work partly , they aren't what I'd call anywhere close afkable at all.
A new update to wow is coming pretty soon and we're all going to be biting at the bit for the devs of HB/GB to be prompt with any changes for it if they are needed. But it won't matter if the developers of HB/GB are up to snuff, if the profiles are as outdated as they are. Old stuff barely ever works with new stuff. Well at least without faults.
Summery:
After all the above, it boils down to,,, we need newer and better working profiles. I ask those that can do it, to please do it for all of us. And please, if you choose to take on the endeavor, please be vigilant in the details, so maybe we can have one that works better than what is available.
I for one would be very grateful, as I'm sure the rest would be.
As Martin Luther King once said: "I have a dream!" Well I too have a dream! A dream that one day HB/GB will also have in it (not that it isn't getting better than it was two years ago) a default folder called questing and in it are totally afkable quest profiles for both Horde and Alliance sides that came with it. Is it a realistic dream? I think it can be. But it is going to take dedicated botters with know-how.
TY
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