What are the odds of me being banned?

[hockey85]

While I fully understand that one should never bot on an account they dont want to loose, I casually bot on my main account. I have a bunch of well geared 85's which I dont want to loose, however it wouldnt be the end of the world if I did. So I risk it, meh its just a game.

So I bot every few days, occasionally bot bg's to gear for pvp, and every other day or so Ill run a Twilight Highlands mining bot for about 3-4 hours. I never really exceed 25 auctions, (been making a fortune off inferno rubies from prospecting the ore, and usually sell them face to face rather than on the ah).

So what exactly determines a suspension, as opposed to a perma ban?

Say I get caught mining (first time offense)..... would I be likely to loose my account forever or just get a suspension?

I usually run my bot while I sleep, and set the profile to log out after a couple hours. I personally dont understand all the talk on these forums about monitoring a bot. The way I see it if Im gonna sit there and monitor it then I may as well just do the farming myself.....

 

[Inrego]

Seems you're aware of the risks, so I'm not gonna go and tell you about it.

Personally I've been botting more or less like you for 4-5 years and I've never been banned. I've got a suspension once but that was because of reports in BG.
I'm not saying you're safe botting like you do, because you never are. The only reason I survived the Glider banwave was because I was slacking and had a week or 2 off botting - which was luckily the detection weeks. That's the only banwave I've been around for. Everything else seems to be from overuse/player reports etc.

 

[Swizzie]

So what exactly determines a suspension, as opposed to a perma ban?

Gm in charge of your case is who determines what you get for a ban. Some Gm's will message you and warn you to stop botting.
Some will give you a few hours off to think about if its really worth botting. Some will 3 day ban you and well the rest of very pissed off Gm's that most likely make $5.25 a hour will perm ban you