Dungeons, gathering, professions, making KA$H.

[skulltraill]

Right, so I just leveled up an alt to 60 and blizzboosted it like I said I was going to do in my previous threads. So yeah, I basically know how to level up a character by questing now.
But the thing is, it's slow. I don't have the money to buy another account for boosting (if I get banned I can, but I wont boost on it) or for multiple sessions, so right now RAF + multipe sessions is not an option for me.

1) I heard dungeons and grinding is very risky, but how much faster are they compared to using kick's profiles? If they are very much faster I might look into them even though the risk...

2) Next, about gathering and professions... from what I understand, there are profession PROFILES, for leveling up professions, and then GATHERING profiles for gathering after max level? So, I have herbalism 600 on a 90 alt, I have got rndbuddy from the store, what steps would you give me to start gathering pandaria herbs as safely as possible?

3) Also, as for professions, I am in the process of leveling more alts (not going to blizzboost these, just HB to 90) so I wont have instant 600 profs, so I will have to level them up. I am thinking for this alt to go mining and engineering. Most probably I will start lvling the profs after fully lvling the toon to 90, so with that in mind, how would you say I should set up HB, what profiles/plugins/botbases to use?

4) I assume grinding and selling stuff is very risky, but I really need some gold, spent a lot on professions and useless shit recently. So I'm guessing the safer way to make money is by professions with gathering and perhaps some crafting then selling on the AH. What good combos would you suggest for some basic gold? I am not looking to become a gold seller or anything, so something like 500g per day would be more than enough for me, just to cover my basic expenses.

Finally, thank you all for your help, I know I am asking a lot of questions, but I feel like that's the best way to learn, and one day, when I have lots of experience with HB, I'll make sure to give back to the community and teach the newbies what I know. Thanks all

 

[Signal7]

1) Dungeons are a fast way to level if your ques are fast. Que up as a healer and it's faster than a DPS toon generally. On my server the ques are slow during the day until mid afternoon when the kids get out of school and log into play so I quest bot until then most day. Questing is as fast as dungeons if your ques are slow and you're not RAF paired with another toon. My personal opinion is that dungeon botting is not very risky, but you're safety is based on having the bot set up properly, running the right dungeons (DB can be buggy in a few of them as far as pathing), not getting a party of chatty players, and of course how many hours straight you're botting per day. As for grinding, I feel safe grind botting provided you're not in a heavily populated area, have a profile that doesn't keep you in the same area for an unusually long period of time, and you don't put a target on yourself at the AH selling by flooding it with too much of any item (cloth, skins, rep turn in items, etc).

2) GB does fine for my needs as I don't require a large gold intake per day, know how to make decent gathering profiles, and don't run GB on one toon longer than 1.5 to 2 hours straight per day. If 500G per day is your goal, you can easily pull that in safely with GB in a short period of time if you know what sells good on your sever. As for profession leveling via the profession profiles I can't offer any advise as I haven't played around with them since I kind of like leveling them up manually.

3) I get mining as a profession on most of my alts that I'm really not going to be hand playing end game so that I can cycle through them when using GB just to help stay off the radar. Mining is a good money maker even if you are just vendoring the ores. Yes, wait till 90 to level professions if you can since you always run the risk of getting banned during your character leveling so it would be a waste to spend time and mats leveling professions that will do you no good if you get banned before the toon is 90, but this is just my personal opinion.

4) Again, if all you need is 500G a day than you really shouldn't have to to grind too long or sell a ton much in the AH to put yourself at risk. Quite a few of the mid to lower level dungeon can be bot farmed with DB on a level 90 toon in under an hour to easily net you 500G per day. There are plenty of safe ways to meet your 500G per day goal, but you have to decide which way you are the most comfortable with.

 

[skulltraill]

Only 1-2hrs per day botting huh, wow, I do like at least 8 usually...
Thanks a bunch for all your advice though, really helpful!

 

[NiiChan]

Questing for leveling a new toon is a good way if you dont have gold, why?

Let's think, Pro and cons for questing:

Pros:

You can make around 8k~10k+ for questing from level 60~90 Just for quests and selling trash.

Sound less bot and more human

You can make rep with some usefull factions.

Make some achievments

Grab some mats or BoE itens to sell on AH and make more gold.

Cons:

This days some profiles is more buggy than early and kick is busy with WoD profiles (i read something about kick working on lvl 100 profiles)

And so cuz some profiles is bugged you cant leave it 100% afk (you can go almost 100% afk after on level 85+)

PS: You can do some DG while leveling for get better itens and plus make the quest from the dungeon.

Sorry about my bad english.

Peace

 

[kasapnet]

500g per day is very easy to get. My old lvl85 toon was making 700gph in dung farming with azyul so your 90 toon can make 500g just in half an hour so do not worry about being banned. If all u need is raw 500g/day then just run azyuls northren dungeons and first cleared dungeon will bring you 500g immediatly.
Banning starts when u dont babysit ur toon for a long time, when your toon stacks somewhere for a long time to make ppl or gms suspected of you, when u run do same order for a long time or do same thing with other botters for a long time etc. So only half an hour per day in dungeon farming while u r babysitting means no harm.
But in this case another question comes up. If u will run for only half an hour per day what does hb means to you? If i dont do anything with bot my lowest income is 3k that day and i'm really really very careful about my bot account.