manually playing main meanwhile botting other acc?

I've had 1 of my Bnet accounts get permanent banned while 2 others in same bnet remained untouched.

 

interesting, i guess my pals were just unlucky haha. good to know though that it doesnt screw with every account that is linked

 

Basically Blizzard will decide to do whatever they want. Just because some people are able to get away with playing under certain conditions doesn't mean that everyone will be so lucky.

 

I was talking to a person from billing and accounts last night at blizzard in regards to getting an account back that wasn't in my name, So i asked can you please just check the IP address's so you can see who was on the account. Turns out, they cannot take action against anything IP related due to many people having the same IP address. but, I still got my account back cause im good as sweet talking them lol! But you should be fine mate, I've never had a problem

 

They might not ban by IP but they probably use it as a means to investigate other accounts. Especially if they are running at the same time.

 

I use GB and HB on 2 other accounts while I play on main. Usually doing heroics or wintergrasp .

 

I have seen a botter in a netcafe before.

 

farming computer

- internet connection via proxy server
- modified mac address
- 3 accounts farming

main char computer

- standard internet connection
- playing with main char

every char is on his own battlenet account, registered with different names, paid with game cards. Botting since several years now and never got any problems with my main account. Several farm accounts/chars got banned some time ago (good old glider and openbot times XD)

 

i voted hell yeh you main account isnt at risk at all because you play legit on it

 

I cant see how this can be true as any PC within the same private LAN will externally appear as the same IP address of the Default Gateway which is your router. Also it is possible to use internet sharing so that two different computers will appear to use the same MAC address as they are both using the same NIC (Network Interface Card).

 

I usually do most of my botting while hand playing my main account but i use a seperate computer for my bot any way

 

the bot that runs with account A will get banned, but if account B is being played with the hand on the same pc. it will get banned, if not chances are low you will get caught on account B

 

Read in a blue somewhere a while ago that only the WoW account that violates the terms of usage will get actioned.
Even if the're on the same Battle.net account.
That means your "main account" will be safe as you long as you don't bot, cheat etc on it, no matter how much you abuse your bot account.
But, that policy could be changed now more for all I know.

 

That's the official stance, yes, but they can (and have in the past) closed associated accounts too.

 

Yup, thats what i thought too.

 

Blizzard cant trace your MAC. Only IPs, That being sad if you trully want to be safe, get second computer and different IP on it, and you are fine, no one here really knows exactly how blizzard works, they often do different things, there is many posts about how blizard banned multiple bots on the same PC and how from several bots banned only 1 or few more..

 

Yes they can. Just the same way they can check out your hardware id's, etc. The only question is if they actually send that data over to bnet and do something with it

 

is it me or does hb get very buggy when i am playing my main in full screen mode even though it is attached to a windowed copy . I would love to bot and play my main at the same time but when i am on my main the bot just dies.......alot

 

At the moment, the majority of account bans are due to non-human behaviour in the game. If blizzard were to actually detect the bot running, you would probably find your main account would be banned, your botting accounts would be banned, and everyone else in the community would be banned because when blizzard find a method for proper bot detection, they collect data ready for a mass ban. Non-human behaviour on one account doesn't really allow them to justify banning your main unless they're clearly linked with gold selling or whatever.