Poll: What is the most risky form of botting? (BAN)

[shlord]

Open GM-Ticket -> Start Bot -> go afk

Lol, u made my day hahaha

 

[Exsp0zed]

I love how PvP botting is so high on this poll yet I am able run BGBuddy 24/7 for weeks straight and not receive a single whisper or warning that I am botting.

<3 ShamWOW

 

[Neo93]

@Exsp0zed
Yep, BGBuddy + good cc = so fuckin' awesome.

Never had a whisper or anything else.

 

[tsiewj]

u guys play restro shaman with BG buddy ?

 

[JimmyBeam]

Bans happen when you're careless. 999/1000 times.

 

[Non Quixote]

Open GM-Ticket -> Start Bot -> go afk

 

[Exsp0zed]

u guys play restro shaman with BG buddy ?

Yep

 

[Bomberman07]

I'm paranoiak, so I bot while at the computer or in the house, checking the bot every now and then

 

[Kronz]

I've not been banned so far, but sometimes I feel it has more to do with luck rather than with the bot's ability to handle a situation.

Right now, I've left my toon do Arch and when I came back, I caught her stuck in an infinite mount-dismount loop, the type of which gets players reported. Luckily no one was around and I got away with it.

She also falls off some mountain roads due to the bot running too close to the edge. I don't know if this can be fixed, but a bot should never run anywhere near the edge of a road or a bridge.

I don't know if there is a plugin for that, but it would be a wise idea for the bot to have some mechanic to tell it when a character tries to mount and gets forcibly dismounted too many times in a row that mounting is not possible and it should initiate its unstuck routines and get the character away from this area, adding an automatic blackspot. I've seen other toons around the game world, with the same problem, in the same infinite loops and I always hope that they get back on time, before someone else sees them and opens a ticket.

 

[nopedotavi]

Is grinding the same as farming an instance?

 

[xyrol]

72hrs ban for grinding
perma banned during pirox archaeology banwave (after 3 years of botting and 1 72hr ban)

no problems with bans since i use HB.

 

[riddelz]

Definately grinding. Been gathering and pvp botting for a while now (used pirox previously) and got my first ever account action due to 4 hours of grinding.

 

[geeekzor]

Anything that makes it obvious that you are using a bot is risky. I've been grinding, gathering, pvping and even used instancebuddy.

I got full honor gear in 2 days on 2 characters, logged out once to switch characters.

I haven't had a single suspension or ban since I started using HB.

 

[Sheon]

gathering seem to be dangerous now

the problem is u end up jacking a node and if ur not a bot or not people report u for botting then blizz looks at ur account and bam

people need to chill on uldumm hyjal twilight hightlands etc

 

[Macatho]

With this poll you wont get any information at all. Only subjective speculations.

 

[face21]

will tell u one thing u need to kinda watch your bot so at least u can help it out in a situation, i was farming one day and 2 alliance came by and tried to gank me i thnk they thot i was just a normal bot, but i stopped the bot and owned em on my rogue one with 140k health and the other 180k, the one with 140k got hit like 5-6 times and i killed em i was hitting him for alot the other took strategy

 

[Neo93]

I think farming in Uldum is pretty risky. Ive botted on 5 different cgars with bgbuddy, sometimes pretty much afk and im always surprised that I dont get reported cuz the bot bugs sometimes rlly bad.

 

[qztr]

On my realm, I'm the only one that's even getting near the profiles I'm using.

But still, it's a MED server
Farming in Uldum seems too be the worst thing to do these days.

 

[eMpil]

i got a question, my account with 6 85 chars get perm banned cuz i used honorbuddy. but i bought a new account now and i am lvl 80 and got new email etc... new mac adress. is it safety for me to start the bot again on the account? or do blizzard contact my IP adress or ?

 

[noamchomsky]

Should just have the *email* poll questions. The others e.g., grinding, pvp, are just speculation as to why the person was banned and they cannot be sure therefore you're not getting solid/correct statistics, just presumptions.

I agree. Still an interesting poll!