Thinking of five boxing with 4 bots, worth it?

[brocher]

Hey all, I've been logged out of WoW since before Cata but came back and enjoying myself. Used to five box before (non bot) but got tired of setting up macros, etc. and the game basically reduced to spamming one key all the time with the odd hit another key to heal. Have two accounts at Cata at the moment but was thinking of upgrading another three but before I do so I wondered if I do so how well will bots handle instances for me on the other 4 characters?

Was thinking I'd play a tank manually, then have four bots, three dps and a healer. Will the bot be able to do dungeons equal to my level on adequately equipped toons? I know the easy answer is suck it and see but before I do so I'll need to upgrade 3 accounts to Cata plus buy another lifetime Honorbot subscription so it's a few quid to lose only to find that the bots can't handle the dungeons.

Any words of advice welcome with thanks

 

[btaddict]

you can have an army of pallys

dps is easy to bot. healing has some really nice ccs out there for druid, shammy and pally (i'm sure there's a priest version as well..i've just never looked)
the toughest part to bot is tanking..and it seems that you've got it covered.
I'm not sure IB would know how to do cata instances yet, but since they're all following you..it might be ok.

I'd say with a little set up, you should do relatively well as long as they're all set to IB or RAF mode.

I've had issues with IB as my bot wouldn not stick around in the group regardless of what options I selected...but it stays with Combat/Heal bot

 

[brocher]

I'd level up a group from 1 so Cata instances would be a long way in the future. I used RAF around 6 months ago and it was an exercise in frustration for me but the last couple of days I've been dual logged with one bot as 'do nothing' and one as 'party bot' and it's way better than before which got me thinking about making a group of five. My worry was that in a dungeon the healer wouldn't heal the tank and would stand around uselessly or that the dps would wander off on their own and start pulling the whole instance at one time, falling down ledges and wandering back to me with a train, etc.

 

[btaddict]

some instances are better than others...in some instances, like say WC..even though IB says they'll follow he tank/group when the group jumps..it really doesn't...
they will pull extra mobs (since they path directly from their position to yours, who cares who's in the way), but as long as you don't try the sneaky approach past mobs you should be OK.

i don't know how many accounts you're currently paid up for (both in terms of wow and hb)..

my suggestion would be
make x number of trials (to equal 5 accts total), use 20 lvl HB trial (or y paid HBs and x trials) to test it out
you should get some of the earlier instances (though they're the least buggy ..as rfc is damn near perfect...but it's also pretty simple.)
you can maybe even get some wc runs at 18-19..and i think sfk as well.

let us know how it goes