I've botted on my account since 2006 using several different botting programs (obviously currently using HB)
I have not received a single warning/suspension let alone a ban at all, ever. (knocks on wood)
Most of the bots I've used are now shutdown, if not all of them.
About 150,000 honor kills on my account have been botted. I've botted honor sets across several characters pretty much nearly every single season (and now with the armor upgrades im getting fully geared honor geared characters with fully 1/1 upgraded sets)
I've botted a few million gold over the years, I've only sold a about 750k>1million of it to guildies and when I've sold the gold it's been through both trade windows and guild bank deposit/withdrawals (im GM of my guild).
* I live in Australia
* I never change my IP
* I never bot at night (I log off and say goodnight)
* I usually turn the bots on when I wake up, I make sure to say something in tradechat or to guildies like "Time to grind some honor now EX DEE face"
* I will only leave the bot running when im out of the house if im only going to be gone for 2-5 hours. If im going to be out all day I will not bot.
* When I am home and botting / doing other things around the house I'll randomly goto my bots and start typing stuff in the Battleground chat depending on what my characters are doing. Example - "Nice healing guys" or "Let's go get blacksmith" or if we're close to winning "gg guys good win"
* I always wait for full releases of a bot before using it after a patch
* I PRETTY MUCH NEVER USE THE AUCTION HOUSE TO SELL STUFF.
* I NEVER USE THE BOTS TO LEVEL CHARACTERS VIA QUESTING/GRINDING (unless im leveling in battlegrounds...in which case I've leveled 2 characters 10-85 and 10-90 in bg's alone)
Now here's the most important thing which I think has kept me safe from any warnings or bans.
When I no longer have any "goal" of which I could be botting...I stop botting for 3-6 months at a time. I have a few hundred thousand gold and huge amounts of materials....and I have all my honor sets ground up....thats when I no longer need to bot anymore. When a new season comes around / expansion comes out and I need to grind up some honor or materials/gold thats when I'll start botting again
When I am botting I bot on a schedule, imitating a person logging on and off a certain times (like after working/sleeping)
Edit: Few more things I think are important.
I never use random accounts that aren't mine, everything I bot on is fully under my name. I don't use any trickery to hide IP or anything. I never use free accounts / random accounts people sell/buy to move gold around. Everything I do is done on my main account 100%.
I have not received a single warning/suspension let alone a ban at all, ever. (knocks on wood)
Most of the bots I've used are now shutdown, if not all of them.
About 150,000 honor kills on my account have been botted. I've botted honor sets across several characters pretty much nearly every single season (and now with the armor upgrades im getting fully geared honor geared characters with fully 1/1 upgraded sets)
I've botted a few million gold over the years, I've only sold a about 750k>1million of it to guildies and when I've sold the gold it's been through both trade windows and guild bank deposit/withdrawals (im GM of my guild).
* I live in Australia
* I never change my IP
* I never bot at night (I log off and say goodnight)
* I usually turn the bots on when I wake up, I make sure to say something in tradechat or to guildies like "Time to grind some honor now EX DEE face"
* I will only leave the bot running when im out of the house if im only going to be gone for 2-5 hours. If im going to be out all day I will not bot.
* When I am home and botting / doing other things around the house I'll randomly goto my bots and start typing stuff in the Battleground chat depending on what my characters are doing. Example - "Nice healing guys" or "Let's go get blacksmith" or if we're close to winning "gg guys good win"
* I always wait for full releases of a bot before using it after a patch
* I PRETTY MUCH NEVER USE THE AUCTION HOUSE TO SELL STUFF.
* I NEVER USE THE BOTS TO LEVEL CHARACTERS VIA QUESTING/GRINDING (unless im leveling in battlegrounds...in which case I've leveled 2 characters 10-85 and 10-90 in bg's alone)
Now here's the most important thing which I think has kept me safe from any warnings or bans.
When I no longer have any "goal" of which I could be botting...I stop botting for 3-6 months at a time. I have a few hundred thousand gold and huge amounts of materials....and I have all my honor sets ground up....thats when I no longer need to bot anymore. When a new season comes around / expansion comes out and I need to grind up some honor or materials/gold thats when I'll start botting again
When I am botting I bot on a schedule, imitating a person logging on and off a certain times (like after working/sleeping)
Edit: Few more things I think are important.
I never use random accounts that aren't mine, everything I bot on is fully under my name. I don't use any trickery to hide IP or anything. I never use free accounts / random accounts people sell/buy to move gold around. Everything I do is done on my main account 100%.
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