It Was Good, Honorbuddy.

[ManuelFistbeard]

Disclaimer: This is no Success Story, this is no complaint. This is merely a sharing of my experience, the goodbye to a way of gaming, and my way of closure with Honorbuddy. I know I haven't posted on these forums at all (I don't think) but I've lingered for a few years now. I started botting back in 200-somethingafter6, when Glider was released. My playing was 90% social, so I botted completely AFK during school and the wee hours of the night. Glider had a good run, but like most, I was hit with the hammer and lost my first main WoW account that I had from the launch of the game until whenever Glider was shut down. I lost a lot that day, but my love for the World of Warcraft was absolute. I kept on keeping on, leveled by hand to 70 for the first time on my Blood Elf Paladin in the Burning Crusade.

Fast forward a few years, I enlisted in the US Marine Corps. Being so strapped for time, I turned to Honorbuddy to help me make progress in a game where I could only afford 2-3 hours a week to sit and enjoy. I ran this bot from the launch of Mists, when a RL friend introduced it to me, until January of 2016 without a single ban. 90% of my botting was afk. 90% of my CR usage was Singular. I used the botbases that came with the game. I think that's how they caught me for my first six month ban, from January until July. In July, I ended my active duty in the Marine Corps - Four years came and went too fast, and here I find myself on the greener grass. I came back to my banned account and up until yesterday was still using Honorbuddy. Finally, it came. The Banhammer hit me hard last night when I got off work at 2am and came home to sit and use Enyo/TuanHA's routines to run a Mythic+ on a class I decided to try out. I understand some of us here bot for different reasons, some love the botting process. I became entangled with it myself lately, finally delving in the versatility of programming my own profiles and using HB in ways that I hadn't anticipated it could be. But I guess it wasn't meant to be.

However I realize now as I sit and contemplate whether to buy a new license or not, that if I do I'll go ahead and pick a class I enjoy and play it myself from now on. I'll put in the hard work and hours I need to if I want to farm gold or level a character, despite my 10 hour/5 day a week job and new family to take care of. So, from one of the thousand guest lurkers people are complaining about lately, I bid you all adieu, and good luck in your botting endeavors should you choose to keep on keepin' on.

 

[Chuckles]

good luck but from my experience you'll be back botting...the game is such a grind, especially after botting that you'll realize you cant do it (manually play(patience)) any more.
My first 6 month ban (18 months or so ago) I didn't play for the whole 6 months. It was a great break and broke my wow addiction. Also realized it was all just pixels and I botted for the lot anyway. Now its just a social thing with my mates and accounts are easy to make and to bot. No big losses.

 

[chtpm]

Good luck trying to grind the f*** out that game manually. LOL let's face it WoW sucks without botting. If you quit HB you quit WoW.

 

[AndersAnd]

Disclaimer: This is no Success Story, this is no complaint. This is merely a sharing of my experience, the goodbye to a way of gaming, and my way of closure with Honorbuddy. I know I haven't posted on these forums at all (I don't think) but I've lingered for a few years now. I started botting back in 200-somethingafter6, when Glider was released. My playing was 90% social, so I botted completely AFK during school and the wee hours of the night. Glider had a good run, but like most, I was hit with the hammer and lost my first main WoW account that I had from the launch of the game until whenever Glider was shut down. I lost a lot that day, but my love for the World of Warcraft was absolute. I kept on keeping on, leveled by hand to 70 for the first time on my Blood Elf Paladin in the Burning Crusade.

Fast forward a few years, I enlisted in the US Marine Corps. Being so strapped for time, I turned to Honorbuddy to help me make progress in a game where I could only afford 2-3 hours a week to sit and enjoy. I ran this bot from the launch of Mists, when a RL friend introduced it to me, until January of 2016 without a single ban. 90% of my botting was afk. 90% of my CR usage was Singular. I used the botbases that came with the game. I think that's how they caught me for my first six month ban, from January until July. In July, I ended my active duty in the Marine Corps - Four years came and went too fast, and here I find myself on the greener grass. I came back to my banned account and up until yesterday was still using Honorbuddy. Finally, it came. The Banhammer hit me hard last night when I got off work at 2am and came home to sit and use Enyo/TuanHA's routines to run a Mythic+ on a class I decided to try out. I understand some of us here bot for different reasons, some love the botting process. I became entangled with it myself lately, finally delving in the versatility of programming my own profiles and using HB in ways that I hadn't anticipated it could be. But I guess it wasn't meant to be.

However I realize now as I sit and contemplate whether to buy a new license or not, that if I do I'll go ahead and pick a class I enjoy and play it myself from now on. I'll put in the hard work and hours I need to if I want to farm gold or level a character, despite my 10 hour/5 day a week job and new family to take care of. So, from one of the thousand guest lurkers people are complaining about lately, I bid you all adieu, and good luck in your botting endeavors should you choose to keep on keepin' on.

My story is similar - took longer for me to realise though - good bye WOW - good bye HB - and good bye Glider - you had a special place in my Heart - but my pockets are sadly not Deep enough for me to keep playing like this.
I love WOW, but not without the extra hand HB gives - so over and out Hopefully for the last time! :'(

 

[TheAxester]

yep rip wow botting. Was fun while it lasted The gravy train is Long over.

 

[Flacito]

Join Date: 21.01.2013
Posts: 1

Bye

 

[Craptuna0813]

I dont know how many times i said bye and still came back but honestly im in my 30's now and cant see spending more money on a game thats become such a grind to play that you literally have to do it every day for 20 plus hours a week. I dont have time for that hence the reason for hb. It was a god send and now its over. Gl to yuo all im on to better things.