another question - do the bots keep up well with getting gear to be able to clear the dungeons quick enough? Is there ever a time, leveling to 85, that i'll have to intervene and buy them gear?
I just bought 5 accounts for 4 euros each, on the same battlenet, google for a link.
Being paranoid must be fun, luckily, being paranoid does not make one right. There is absolutely no difference between having 5 battlenet accounts, and having just one.
I've had an account banned on my main battlenet, meanwhile i've continued botting on other accounts on the same battlenet, still no ban on those. I'll let that speak for itself.
Reading this post it seems you know that for sure. Truth is, you know exactly the same the rest of us do. Mostly nothing, all guesses.
I have a friend that's been botting over a month now GATHERING 24/7. He is not banned yet. Does it make gathering safe now? Obviously not. Things happen. Yours too.
If your laziness makes it so hard for you to create a different email and a different bnet for each account, that actually speaks for itself on how safe you like to bot. But it would probably be better if you stop giving this kind of advise to people, you're not doing them any good.
Gathering 24/7 is the most risky thing of all. I assume no one has reported your friend yet thats all. Most bans come from reports and so many people use gathering profiles just to make gold it gives it a higher risk then doing dungeons as you can only see yourself. So no his not stupid for putting them all on the same bnet for I have had my 5 accounts on the same bnet for 3 years and no ban.
Lets just say this from gold seller to a casual gamer/botter. From personal experience I know that when I DID run GB I would meet other botters who are using the same profile and they would report me but I was at the PC everytime so I would speak with the GM. Now with running my accounts all in dungeons only Ive had no reports for 2 years and I have spoken with GM's while botting. "hardcore" So please tell me how safe HB is I know it's very safe its what you do with it that runs your own % of risk.
I have connections with people running more then 40 accounts on the same IP and making a living from it