Safest way to bot?

[rcadams]

It's all about luck.. Wrong place wrong time, = player report / slash ban..

Only toon I've ever had banned was due to GB being detected ....And that was a LONG time ago...

 

[goodmorning]

Questing's the safest.. just wish they'd iron out the bugs. Grinding is the most reliable. Instancebuddy's not really suited for AFKing atm, and BG pathing/behavior in mixed mode isn't exactly optimal.

Personally, i set it to grind in a secluded place overnight. When i'm available to watch it, i either set it to quest or use IB.

 

[webhond]

anything goes as long as you can watch it 90 % of the time, weird eh? but its like that.

Ib can be good, but only in approved instances.

Use bg and do av only, less chance to be detected on sloppy bot movement.

Arch bot is a nice way to lvl 2, but i would only use that on 75 + till 85

grinding is not afk able. player reports are known to get you banned.

Tbh, i wouldnt afk anything, but then again, why bot, you can do it yourself.

Well, with all errors last months, i can only say, babysit it, or dont bot at all.

 

[muggle]

Questing to 60 while watching and at 60+ using AB being afk

 

[nforcer]

Let me share some thoughts as well. I've got 30+ toons leveled 1-80, more than 10 85s as well (0 suspensions for botting, 0 permabans), so you can trust my experience.

1. Do NOT use bot for leveling 1-60. Make 1-2-3 additional RAF acc(s), hit level 10 by grinding in group (it takes me ~1 hour to make 4 lvl 10s just grinding mobs with one character, others were in group on /follow). Then take one lvl 80-85 and boost them through Classic/TBC instances. If you don't have a high level on a server you're planning to bot on, then just buy some gold (2-3K is pretty enough on Russian realms, but I would recommend to take 4-5K for Eu/US players) and spam for payed boosters in any major city.
It takes me 12-15 hours to get 2-4 lvl 60 toons this way, so I consider it is the fastest one so far (and 100% safe lol). One more point I would like to draw your attention to, is that in Cata many Azeroth locations have been redesigned and now old 1-60 profiles are broken while new ones are still much less tested (=more stucks, more danger situations).


2. Use only grinding/farming profiles. Questing sounds cool, but it's still very unrealiable. Both IB and PvP bot are rather noticeable for experienced players. Also, questing profiles forces your char to dart here and there in places where most players do leveling while most of grinding profiles are far from it. Less players seeing you = less potential whisperers/inviters/reporters you get.


3. Gear up your bot as cool as you can. People expect bots being poor/out-of-spec/wierd geared. Pimp your char like a fancy twink and noone will ever suspect it of being botting. I swear. Even if your character keeps grinding silently, people still think that it's just a too proud guy who doesn't want to deal with n00bs. Also, good gear greatly decreases the time you have to spend in one location, which is another safety factor.


4. Level up skinning ( and dig for grinding profiles in beast-populated locations). A continuous grinding looks much, much more reasonable if you kill mostly animals and skin them. People will just think that you are leveling skinning/farming leather. Also, skinning brings enough money to keep a char fully pimped while leveling (watch the point #3).


5. Monitor game chat. Personally, I attach Pirox in monitoring mode to my HBs, it has nice chatbot built-in and a set of sound signals for most in-game events (chat and queues).


6. Don't trade large amounts of gold. Better trade mats instead. This rule will keep you away from bans for goldselling.


7. Always have a legend. Always think what to answer to a whisperer about your wierd gamestyle. Skinning and good gear are your friends here, as well as old profiles (for example, almost noone do quests in Blade Edge's Mountains / Shadowmoon Valley, so for me it's a safer choice comparing to, say, Nagrand. Even though BEM/SV aren't best places for skinning). Also, you better have a legend about how did you get all that gold/achievements or what you're botting for.


Hope you find it helpful, otherwise I'm sorry for spending your time reading this. It's not only about the safest way to bot, but I believe my tips will help you make your botting experience a bit safer.

P.S: I have skipped some obvious things like "do relog periodically", "do not bot 24/7" and so on, you can dig 'em in dozens of similar guides and topics here, just use the search.

Best regards,
nforcer.

 

[Bayoya]

@Nforcer thats the way i have done so far, and never got banned, except 1 time i put 1 account to QUESTING mode and i got banned a lvl 29 and its not faster than do instances, i know people are lazt to runs their new character but this is the best way to be safe once you hit 60 it will be easier (bg imo is the best way from 60-70) but wuth the new RAF i said keep boosting your player thru instances.

 

[Bengan12]

I have quested all my chars 1 - 85 and have not been banned once. as for stability kicks profiles works almost to 100%

 

[Croga]

Let me share some thoughts as well. I've got 30+ toons leveled 1-80, more than 10 85s as well (0 suspensions for botting, 0 permabans), so you can trust my experience.

I've got 25 level 85s as we speak and another 30 coming up soon.

1. Do NOT use bot for leveling 1-60. Make 1-2-3 additional RAF acc(s), hit level 10 by grinding in group (it takes me ~1 hour to make 4 lvl 10s just grinding mobs with one character, others were in group on /follow). Then take one lvl 80-85 and boost them through Classic/TBC instances. If you don't have a high level on a server you're planning to bot on, then just buy some gold (2-3K is pretty enough on Russian realms, but I would recommend to take 4-5K for Eu/US players) and spam for payed boosters in any major city.

This costs you real life money each and every time. Bit no-no. Also; buying gold when you run a bot? That's the crappiest thing I've ever heard.

It takes me 12-15 hours to get 2-4 lvl 60 toons this way, so I consider it is the fastest one so far (and 100% safe lol). One more point I would like to draw your attention to, is that in Cata many Azeroth locations have been redesigned and now old 1-60 profiles are broken while new ones are still much less tested (=more stucks, more danger situations).

Sorry mate but you're simply wrong. 1-60 profiles work awesomely and will get the job done every time. Kick's profiles are tested and proven and have very little issues if any.

2. Use only grinding/farming profiles. Questing sounds cool, but it's still very unrealiable. Both IB and PvP bot are rather noticeable for experienced players. Also, questing profiles forces your char to dart here and there in places where most players do leveling while most of grinding profiles are far from it. Less players seeing you = less potential whisperers/inviters/reporters you get.

Grinding and farming is the best way to get you banned by far. Questing is the best, most foolproof way to be seen acting as a normal player. Grinding/farming is the best, most foolproof way to get reported by anyone that sees you there hour after hour, day after day.

All in all I completely and utterly disagree with you. I've quested 25 characters from 0 to 85 and have never gotten suspended, banned or even reported. I have managed to bind 125 people to my guild just from them asking me if they could join my guild, while I was questing. Even they don't have the slightest idea that I'm botting.
More importantly: 8 of my characters run Tol Barad, Therazane and Wildhammer dailies every day. And still no bans, suspensions, reports or suspicions.

And I am very sorry to say but any advice that includes "Spend real world money so you can RAF, then spend more real world money buying gold" is silly advice, to say the least.

 

[Tekken]

I couldn't agree more with Croga ... I started botting nearly a year ago and in that time the only issue I've had was a suspension (Thank God) after I left my bot skinning once for only 4 hrs. I've never grinded again and have 4 accounts all of which have never had any isssues..(touch wood) so as most of us here, I know I will get caught one day is just a question of when but from my experience grinding is guaranteed to get you there very quickly. With all the money I make now I even buy leather now when I needed and I have 4 skinners that is how afraid I am to grind.
And on the other hand using the gold I make to buy game stuff is cool for me .... using real money to get your bot going ...well .... you be the judge

 

[cawpet]

It really doesn't matter. The majority of bans/suspensions come from user error and user error alone. If your bot is correctly set up for the method of levelling you choose, they're all just as safe; providing you use common sense and a good set-up.

tl;dr version. Botters are far too paranoid nowadays.

 

[A1l3n]

The safes way of botting is knowing what your doing and how your doing it. IE picking the right CC, profile, plugins and so forth and so on. It's really not that hard. Don't play for 11-24 hours a day. Don't put 100+ auctions on the AH. Don't draw unwanted attention to your self playing. Don't report other botters. Check on your bot every once in a while. Don't send 100k+ to your main account. Don't post in trade chat saying you want to buy game time with gold.


The list could go on and on. Just make yourself look like a real player. That meens getting gear. Maybe getting a tittle. Playing yourself every now and then.


Just don't be stupid and don't grind. And your safe.

TL;DR
Don't be a moran.

 

[Hawkiz]

imo, no methods are 100% "safe"
if a player spots you grinding, your mostly gonna get reported..
if a player spots you pvp'ing, your mostly gonna get reported..
if a player spots you questing and running strange/not responding, your mostly gonna get reported.


Tho! out of those 3, id pick questing..

 

[LunaticFringe]

i try to always leave it running while im sitting here..never unattended. so far so good.

 

[Jianyu]

I think the safest way to bot is dependant on wether you monitor it, and not on what mode you choose.

 

[SongAfterSong]

Questing for sure!:d

 

[projektt]

For me it was questing. If you get bored of that you can always do archaeology at 70.