Acutally it isn't at all!
You are able to bot, good.
You live in the US? My argument stands:
<You can bot, because you live in the US>
Now let's turn it around:
Proof that you can bot for more than two weeks using GatherBuddy on EU-Realms.
If you do that, then yes, my argument would be invalid.
But you can't, so actually you just confirmed my statement.
regards
Hi,
I have been successfully botting [PB] and [GB2] from 3 to 14hrs a day concurrently on 1-3 accounts, each on the same (high pop) EU Realm. At my busiest I would bot 18-20 hours a day but slowed down as I could see it was saturating the market and chose not to compete with 'others' flooding the AH. I use modified and custom profiles and rely solely on [PB] and [GB2] for gathering, though I use [Quest Bot] for my custom Skinning profiles -which are my biggest earners and that I run overnight. I have all professions maxed across many characters and sell to AH both raw materials, shuffled and crafted wares.
Current gold (10 months of botting, 3 personal Guild banks): 1,860,000 +change
I am suspicious of ever reaching Guild Bank cap, and take time to level the Guilds respectively using Kick's profiles: each quest now rewards 60,000 Guild XP making the process quite acceptable. I have a 24, 12 and 5 Level guilds and will create two more shortly.
On my mains I run LFR, do Daily Quests, tend to my Tillers farm -etc. My 'full time' bots faceroll loot pi?atas that are Sha, Galleon, Oondasta and Nalak every reset: a personal choice. I vary my gathering from Vanilla, BC, WotLK and MoP (I don't see much -if any -demand from Cata materials) as the AH market dictates.
Most of the above is personal choice, but I see it as a holistic solution that distracts from how the Gold was gathered. There is certainly a balance of art and science to botting; most people know the science, but more not practise the art -correct etiquette when playing the AH market, restraint when necessary, and actually taking the time to play the game (you know.. World of Warcraft). Ignoring the balance, I fear, paints an obvious picture that paints you as a botter.
On the subject of selling gold: again it comes down to best practise -sell by ***** or privately: it has to be the act of selling [to] and solicitation with professional resellers' accounts that puts botters at the most immediate risk. Silly nonsense such as spamming /trade with "CoD" requests will also garner unwanted attention from Lonely Billy No Gems trying to sell his 12 Green Tea Leaves at an honest price to AH Players to omnipresent Big Brother (if such an initiative exists!): either way, the downfall of many botters is there own actions rather than the detection of the bot itself.
Good luck.
