Is HB still profittable

[Sharpmaxim]

Hello, every1.
Before I move on to my question, I have first to clarify my motivation. I am currently botting not for profit (as I do have quite a well paid remote job), but strictly for enthusiasm and for myself. I.e. I have no plans to sell my gold in the nearest future.
Now to my situation. I have been botting for only a week on the newly created MoP account. I currenly level a toon on this one to 90, once I reach it, I will start mining + herb gathering (WoW #1). I also set up another brand new clean MoP account, on which I am not botting, but level manually (WoW #2). Once my monk on this non-botting account reaches lvl 90, I plan to train alchemy and JC to process ores and herbs from the Botting account.
I also created a guild, in which a GM is the low level toon from my main account (WoW #3). WoW #3 is never online when bot is operating (in order to avoid suspension). I plan to do AH with WoW #2, and place all the gold into the Guild Bank.
Now straight to my question. Even though I am enthusiast, I am still a rational person. That being said, the investments I made into my small enterprise (2 MoP account = 70 euros, + 24 euros for HB 1 license) need to pay off. As current market gold sell prices stand, 94 euros equal around 130k gold. That's the approximate amount of gold I would get for 90 euros. However this is just a minimum amount of money, and to call my experiment a success I need to make at less 1.5x of it in order to make it somewhat proffitable. Plus if I am lucky and avoid ban wave in the beginning, I would have to earn at less the market equivalent of 2 sub fees (25 euros), which equals around 40-50k a month.
So the question is - I know that's a matter of luck when you'll get banned - but from your experience if I keep myself low and be careful, can I succeed and make this small experiment economically feasible for me? Thank you.

P.S. Just in case, I am not a fool, so these WoW#1, WoW#2 and WoW#3 accounts are absolutely separate and registered to 3 different e-mails. I would never risk and register a botting or money laundering (Processing and Auctioning) accounts on the same e-mail as my main and precious account is registered.

 

[Soullinker]

I guess you don't follow the ban section much.... you precious main account is good as dead. And no its not profitable to bot.

Sorry if I look mean just lost 6 account and 5 of them were not used in a year or so.

 

[Sharpmaxim]

I guess you don't follow the ban section much.... you precious main account is good as dead. And no its not profitable to bot.

Sorry if I look mean just lost 6 account and 5 of them were not used in a year or so.

Just read your post in the ban section. For what it's worth, I'm sorry and feel for you, bro. However, from your post it sounds like your non-botting accounts only got 72-hours suspension, not permaban? So it looks like if I only launch my main account when botting and sniffing accounts are not active, I still might have a chance to not have it banned... And your post also rises some of the questions. Why would you have 5 accounts and not use them? Are you sure you didn't use them for botting or other purposes in that time when they were still active?

 

[Soullinker]

^ I got those 5 accounts when Diablo 3 was very profitable as i gift from blizzard. At that time Diablo 3 was top dollar and i had a rig that could not run more than 5 diablo instances. So while i did have 5 active WoW I could not use them as i was busy with D3. So the time just run out on them i think i had like a lv 16 druid on one of them when i was bored once. So no botting was done on them or anything else they are blank... their are not even level 1 char(with exception of the lv 16 druid).
And i got the 6 account because for 4 euro it is a bargain and i get 40 days play time(10 with mop trial) while a single 30 days from battle.net store is 14$ i think.

What pissed me of is that they banned 72 hours account with no chars on them. And my Active account with permanent.

Also if you read there some developers and other folk that did lost their main accounts even if the rule is to never do anything to acc that you can't lose. As such i won't advice you to bot right now well you can always have good luck and not get banned but since you care about your acc i won't risk it.

Also on the gold selling point: I sure damn hope you something clever in mind because Blizzard are like hounds worse then tax collectors. You would 110% need a mule account that will trade with the buyer, as in most cases unless you have connections(private buyers/shops/Obama) you will sell to China. The mule account will be banned ones you trade with them, in my experience not always but if i have to round it up it always (although people do say that guild bank trade is safer) better be sorry than safe, a mule account is of no value the farmers are important.
Soo... the thing is how to not connect the farmers with the soon be sacrifice(the mule) which should be part of another guild and in no way connected to your other account? Well honestly no idea because whatever i tried sometimes my farming account got nailed too so it seem its luck despite every thing you may do(however the more shuffling you do the better.)
So ye this is my advice... it can be done but you have to think outside of the box... I am just warning you that if you go down the gold selling path you will have a lot more bans and factor them int he expenses too. Don't forget to think outside of the box