This is a guide for noobs and the seasoned alike. This will help you get started with honorbuddy, but also relay some common sense that seems to be lacking around the forums.
Some basic rules:
- When Blizzard patches World of Warcraft, then Honorbuddy is going to be down anywhere from 1 day to 10 days. There's no way that BossLand can provide estimates on this downtime. This downtime is totally dependant on what Blizzard has done to the WoW client. It's a "will release when ready" scenario. The developers do a great job keeping us in the loop.
- Always search the forums first before asking a question. If it's breaking for you, it might be breaking for other people.
- If you ask a question like "my bot does xyz and I don't know why" attach a log to your question. A full log, not just the part that you think caused the problem. (I have made this mistake in the past)
How to get set up with Honorbuddy: There's some stuff you need to do on a fresh installation / unzip of honorbuddy. I explain in terms of the zip file, as I find it easier to manage but that's because I am a bit of a power user and control freak.
First, some housekeeping rules:
- By principle, you want to have a clean install each time. You can back up your old CR's, Profiles and plugins if you like first.
- Delete honorbuddy completely.
- If your meshes are outside of the honorbuddy folder, then delete that too.
My guide for a botting setup is this:
I create a folder "WowStuff" on C:\
I create a folder "hb" in C:\WowStuff\
I create a folder "meshes" in C:\WowStuff
I keep my World of Warcraft folder in C:\WowStuff\WoW
Then I have:
C:\WowStuff\WoW
C:\WowStuff\hb
C:\WowStuff\meshes
I download WowMatrix to that folder (C:\WowStuff) so I can easily keep my WoW addons updated.
I have a .BAT (Windows Batch File) that cleans all my caches, called CleanCaches.bat and in the file I have:
DEL /F /S /Q C:\WowStuff\WoW\Cache
DEL /F /S /Q C:\WowStuff\WoW\Data\Cache
DEL /F /S /Q C:\WowStuff\hb\Cache
DEL /F /S /Q "C:/ProgramData/Blizzard Entertainment/"
(if you use Windows XP, the last one must be "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Blizzard Entertainment")
Now, when your honorbuddy starts to fuck out, kill your honorbuddy, close WoW, and run the batch file.
"Fucking out" may be described as:
- Bot moves around but doesn't seem to be able to make up its mind; it attacks random mobs, pulls a lot of agro, etc.
- Bot clicks on quest givers but doesn't accept quests or turn them in.
- Bot clicks on flight masters, but never flies anywhere.
- Bot walks between hotspots and doesn't actually complete objectives.
- Bot doesn't attack yellow mobs it needs for quests.
- Bot doesn't click / use quest items
- Bot doesn't loot what it should loot.
Here's some tips on how to set up honor buddy
- NEVER, NEVER NEVER EVER EVER quit WoW while honorbuddy is running. It will screw up your caches and you'll need to clear it again. Close HB first!
- Never change bot settings / configure plugins etc while honorbuddy is running. STOP the bot, change the settings, then run the bot, or weird things will happen.
In Settings:
- Set up an ALT toon, and set that toon as a mail recipient
- Use "random mount". It will make you look less bot-like.
- Use the Food and Drink. Don't bother typing in an ID or name in the boxes. Set it to 60 for food and water. This will allow you to rest and quest faster.
- Pick up Herb and Mining, (or herb / skinning) and level those as you level, making good money on the side.
- Make sure that you enable skinning/harvest minerals/harvest herbs if you have a gathering prof.
- DO NOT EVER use ninja-skinning. BAD idea. This pisses other players off. Then they whisper you, you don't answer, get reported for botting, banned.
- Drop one gathering prof when you're 90, and take enchanting / jewelling or something. looks less bot-like.
- Use RandomBuddy when gathering. Saves you a couple easy bans. Google the plugin if you must.
- Configure Talented (the plugin) and choose your spec in the list; it will help AutoEquip equip the right items.
- Configure AutoEquip (the plugin) and choose your weapon type appropriate to your class.
Random thoughts:
- I recommend watching your bot 100% of the time (supervising) over using auto login/logout tools.
- Even if you never quest yourself, raid yourself etc, set up your action bars with spells the bot uses. An empty action bar is a giveaway that you're botting (even though you can legit be using addons, the less in the radar you are the better)
- Keep the amount of auctions down. 100 at once is fine, even 150. But don't do that every day. Look legit!
- Stay away from Kick's Gathering profiles (nothing wrong with them, but they seem to cause bans). Use RandomBuddy.
- Kick's Questing Profiles are awesome.
- ClickToGo is a great botbase for clicking on the automap, to walk your bot to a certain location.
- Use a custom Combat Routine. Singular is fine, but it's always good to add more to the mix.
Happy botting.
Some basic rules:
- When Blizzard patches World of Warcraft, then Honorbuddy is going to be down anywhere from 1 day to 10 days. There's no way that BossLand can provide estimates on this downtime. This downtime is totally dependant on what Blizzard has done to the WoW client. It's a "will release when ready" scenario. The developers do a great job keeping us in the loop.
- Always search the forums first before asking a question. If it's breaking for you, it might be breaking for other people.
- If you ask a question like "my bot does xyz and I don't know why" attach a log to your question. A full log, not just the part that you think caused the problem. (I have made this mistake in the past)
How to get set up with Honorbuddy: There's some stuff you need to do on a fresh installation / unzip of honorbuddy. I explain in terms of the zip file, as I find it easier to manage but that's because I am a bit of a power user and control freak.
First, some housekeeping rules:
- By principle, you want to have a clean install each time. You can back up your old CR's, Profiles and plugins if you like first.
- Delete honorbuddy completely.
- If your meshes are outside of the honorbuddy folder, then delete that too.
My guide for a botting setup is this:
I create a folder "WowStuff" on C:\
I create a folder "hb" in C:\WowStuff\
I create a folder "meshes" in C:\WowStuff
I keep my World of Warcraft folder in C:\WowStuff\WoW
Then I have:
C:\WowStuff\WoW
C:\WowStuff\hb
C:\WowStuff\meshes
I download WowMatrix to that folder (C:\WowStuff) so I can easily keep my WoW addons updated.
I have a .BAT (Windows Batch File) that cleans all my caches, called CleanCaches.bat and in the file I have:
DEL /F /S /Q C:\WowStuff\WoW\Cache
DEL /F /S /Q C:\WowStuff\WoW\Data\Cache
DEL /F /S /Q C:\WowStuff\hb\Cache
DEL /F /S /Q "C:/ProgramData/Blizzard Entertainment/"
(if you use Windows XP, the last one must be "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Blizzard Entertainment")
Now, when your honorbuddy starts to fuck out, kill your honorbuddy, close WoW, and run the batch file.
"Fucking out" may be described as:
- Bot moves around but doesn't seem to be able to make up its mind; it attacks random mobs, pulls a lot of agro, etc.
- Bot clicks on quest givers but doesn't accept quests or turn them in.
- Bot clicks on flight masters, but never flies anywhere.
- Bot walks between hotspots and doesn't actually complete objectives.
- Bot doesn't attack yellow mobs it needs for quests.
- Bot doesn't click / use quest items
- Bot doesn't loot what it should loot.
Here's some tips on how to set up honor buddy
- NEVER, NEVER NEVER EVER EVER quit WoW while honorbuddy is running. It will screw up your caches and you'll need to clear it again. Close HB first!
- Never change bot settings / configure plugins etc while honorbuddy is running. STOP the bot, change the settings, then run the bot, or weird things will happen.
In Settings:
- Set up an ALT toon, and set that toon as a mail recipient
- Use "random mount". It will make you look less bot-like.
- Use the Food and Drink. Don't bother typing in an ID or name in the boxes. Set it to 60 for food and water. This will allow you to rest and quest faster.
- Pick up Herb and Mining, (or herb / skinning) and level those as you level, making good money on the side.
- Make sure that you enable skinning/harvest minerals/harvest herbs if you have a gathering prof.
- DO NOT EVER use ninja-skinning. BAD idea. This pisses other players off. Then they whisper you, you don't answer, get reported for botting, banned.
- Drop one gathering prof when you're 90, and take enchanting / jewelling or something. looks less bot-like.
- Use RandomBuddy when gathering. Saves you a couple easy bans. Google the plugin if you must.
- Configure Talented (the plugin) and choose your spec in the list; it will help AutoEquip equip the right items.
- Configure AutoEquip (the plugin) and choose your weapon type appropriate to your class.
Random thoughts:
- I recommend watching your bot 100% of the time (supervising) over using auto login/logout tools.
- Even if you never quest yourself, raid yourself etc, set up your action bars with spells the bot uses. An empty action bar is a giveaway that you're botting (even though you can legit be using addons, the less in the radar you are the better)
- Keep the amount of auctions down. 100 at once is fine, even 150. But don't do that every day. Look legit!
- Stay away from Kick's Gathering profiles (nothing wrong with them, but they seem to cause bans). Use RandomBuddy.
- Kick's Questing Profiles are awesome.
- ClickToGo is a great botbase for clicking on the automap, to walk your bot to a certain location.
- Use a custom Combat Routine. Singular is fine, but it's always good to add more to the mix.
Happy botting.
