[Noob] How to bot effectively?

[Jason S]

Hello HonorBuddy community. You guys seem to be professional botters and know the method not getting banned or unbanned. Could you give me some tips? I will start with 4x SoR LvL80 accounts.

What to do first when HonorBuddy is online for 5.0.4, configuration, profiles, plugins etc?
Which class is the best to bot?
How can I make the most profit, farming stuff or questing?
How long should the bot run a day?
Should three of my accounts bot and the other one for storing the gold or should all accounts bot?

What other tips do you have guys?
It would be nice if you could answer my questions. Thank you!

 

[wesker1213]

1st thing I'd do if I were you is get a autologger such as ARelog or HBrelog (think that it's called). Set up a schedule for your bots. I have 4 accounts, 3 of which I bot on. And I have schedules set up for each of them, I do different things and different times of day. I idle at times etc. I usually leave it off for at least 6 hours every few days, but other than that it runs for 2-3 hours, breaks for an hour. repats this for a few days then I let it relax.

With a good CC any class really is easy to bot. Pre-patch the easiest for me was druids and shamans. Post 5.0.4 is gonna be hard to tell since so much has changed.

For profit ? with all the bots around prices are really in the toilet. Only reason they are respectable this weekend is because the bot is broken. Prices on my server are more than double what they were on monday. but as far as materials and such are concerned I would look into skinning (I make more there) and mining (this one is good for me as well). I am also working on stay classy for my guild. 80-85 alone is netting me 4-5k just on questing and the associated loot that I don't need to use.

Also I would set up your own personal GB. Store gold in there. Store materials or even stuff you want to transfer between accounts in there. In my experience and alot of others as well this does seem to be the safest method instead of sending via mail/trading large amounts of mats and gold.

Run length (see first response )

 

[Harmacintyre]

Be aware with SoR accounts you might get banned in the first few days. usually a 72 hour temp ban, there are many posts regarding what people have done in counter to this.
i myself bot for about 8-10 hours per account a day, and i schedule the times so they are spread out, with some overlap. if you have a dynamic ip, then you are in good luck, static not so much.

when you first open HB, just stop. go to the folder, and look through the different default profiles and get a feeling as to what it can offer you. there are a bunch of different settings per bot function(cant think of right word), GatherBuddy2, questing, grinding, DungeonBuddy etc.

then when u know which of these you want to do, go down the line, load profile, settings, bot config, class config (turn on enhanced mode for these) and just make sure they are everything you want your bot to do.

if you have any trouble, there are some guides on how to help you. good luck

 

[Jason S]

Thank you both for your answers. I watched a video on YouTube where someone made 10000 gold per hour just by buying mats from auction house and then with jewelcrafting those and sell them to auction house again. Is this possible? How much gold do you guys get per hour?

 

[BadTank]

I am pretty new myself to all this so I also thank the responses. I got the bot just about 3-4 days prior to the patch and I was really careful, I made sure I was on one account playing by hand while watching the other one bot incase I got a whisper or some type of odd reaction to the bot like running into a wall. I think I will keep this up just until I get a better understanding of it. I can say that for BG's, it worked like a charm, I was able to get 4K honor and a lot of conquest points in a short amount of time while my other account was leveling a shaman on a test. The shaman was level 37 in a day or so by questing alone, but I did watch both accounts in window mode and never went past 8 hours a day on either one. From what I have seen comparing to other bots, is that HB is not only the cheapest to get its also the most diverse bot around and most user friendly. I kinda went on a tangent there but that has been my experience so far.

 

[Jason S]

So I bought today four SoR accounts plus one month gametime for each. Now I need to choose the class for the instant LvL80 option. Which is the best class or which class should I avoid for 5.0.4?

 

[Dominium]

Depends a lot on what you wanna do. Farming dungeons - blood dk. Grinding - blood dk. Farming herbs - druid. Mining - paladin/dk. Rest doesnt really matter

Welcome !

 

[Dkelly96]

I reccomend a shuffle. This is my strategy

I do a shuffle, bot for about 3 days, then unload.

I have 5 characters, 1 for mining / herbalism, 1 for alchemy / inscription, 1 for jewelcrafting / enchanting & fishing / cooking, 1 for skinning, and 1 for selling

Run a skinning profile for about 18 hours
Run a mining / herbalism profile for 24 hours
Run fishing for 24 hours

Now that the gathering stage is over, it's time for the fun part (kind of, but this is where the work comes in)

Prospect 100% of the ore you got from mining, (Ores & Bars typically don't sell well on my server)
Send all the carnellians (The common RED gems) over to your alchemist / inscription.
3 Hearblossom & 3 Carnellians = 1 Inferno Ruby (I reccomend getting transmute master, this will make you get up to 3 Inferno ruby's each transmute)
Send the Ruby's back to your JC, split the rubys evenly into gems that sell well.
Use all the other uncommon gems (Green, Purple, Blue, Yellow, Orange, and whatever i'm missing) to make Uncommon necklaces / rings
Disenchant these rings / necklaces

Now you're done with the mining part, send the inferno rubys / Enchanting materials over to a bank alt to get ready and sell

Now mail the herbs over to your inscription / alchemy, always do your transmute elements (very helpful)
Use about 30% - 40% of the herbs to make into fortune cards and popular glyphs
Send the fortune cards over to a char w/ 525 cooking, make them into fortune cookies and send them along w/ your glyphs and raw herbs to your banker to sell
Simply send over the fish / Volatile water over to the bank alt to sell, (it never hurts to, if you have 525 cooking, to make SOME not too much fish, into food. Some people don't have cooking, and must buy it already cooked) Also I reccomend downloading the addon FishWarden (Great addon you can get @ Curse for not filling up your bags full of shit you don't want)
Send over the skins / hides to the banker

By now, it's time to sell. Your bags should have the following...

- Fortune Cookies
- Cooked Fish
- Raw Fish
- Herbs
- Glyphs
- Enchanting Materials
- Red Gems
- Volatiles
- Leather Skins
- Hides

All of those sell very well, and basically you'll bot for 3 days, craft, and sell while you're botting your next batch

As far as Plugins, Safety, Etc (keeping this part short)

I don't use any plugin's really, if you don't have an authenicator a relogging plugin helps alot if you tend to dc

Try not to bot for more then 18 hours a day too much, if your doing 24 hours, a nice hour or two break never hurts.

The rest you can figure out with common sense, (don't bot in overpopulated places, etc)

Try to get a custom class if you know someone who can make 1

Basically the what I can say is do this, and it will come in after your first or second run, it's amazing!! You will also learn some tricks, tactics, etc just by doing this, getting experienced with the bot, etc.

Good luck