So, I have been botting since beginning of cataclysm. I always had 1 main account + 1 slave (bot) account.
I always used all kind of botbases: dungeonbuddy, grinding, gathering, battlegrounds, and even arena bots.
Until last month, I had received only 2 bans, and all of them lifted after a ticket telling I was innocent.
- Ban for trading high ammount of gold inter-accounts (my bot account to my main account)
- Grinding at the same place for 4 levels. (grind-levelling).
I botted the whole CATA, with no bans. Heavy botting with gatherbuddy in uldum. No bans.
Then... about 1 month ago... I got banned at my gathering account. Opened a ticket, the ban was lifted. Restarted botting. After 1 week, I was perma-banned: "Use of bots".
I hellraised then an old account (lvl 85 char), and botted for about a month at level 85 areas: Uldum, vash'jir (aquatic form). Gathered tons of herbs and ore. NO BAN.
Then I decided to try levelling the account to 90. Bought MOP expansion, and levelled from 85 to 90 at the kota-peak cave. (grind from 85 to 90, nostop). No ban yet.
When I dinged 90, started gathering with GB2. No other types of bot activity except from an occasional lazyriding 5 mans.
When I decided I needed some improved gathering, I used my personal profile + rarekiller2 (modified version) + gathebuddy bot to camp FORAGER'S GLOVES.
I went to bed. Next day woke up and I had the gloves.
Then I went to work, and left my druid gathering with forager gloves. Plugins up were:
Mr. Item Remover
Auto Blacklist
Tidy Bags
Potion User.
Profile used was:
Dragofarm [GB2] Ghost iron ore only.xml
I wanted to avoid the evil trees at jade forest.
When I was at work, received an e-mail at my phone: Your account was banned: hacks. Appealing was unsuccessful.
So.
Advice from a very experienced botter.
GATHERBUDDY IN PANDARIA IS NOT SAFE NOW. IT CAN BE DETECTED.
LEVEL 85 BOTTING SEEMS TO BE SAFE STILL.
See you friends. I am away from botworld until things get safe again and the team discover how it is being detected.
It seems that the honorbuddy team keeps the SILENCE about what is happening, as they dont want the chaos to spred and that would affect bot sales. But unfortunately: GATHERBUDY IS BEING DETECTED SOMEHOW.