I'm a kid going to college, instead of having a shitty part time job making minimum wage, id rather bot. I was wondering if any of you guys have made this into a career, making at least $1000 a month? Ive gotten close with 10 bots running before they got banned, but ever since the Chinese wave, my bots don't last very long. If anyone has made gold farming their main amount of income, i would like to know how many of you there are!
Worst possible time to start, insanely low income when competing against the pros. You're better off learning how to use the auction house with addons like tsm/tycoon and then if all goes well you can sell your gold for a stupid cheep price to one of the hundreds of gold selling websites who rip you off. Even this way has the risk of getting banned for "Abuse of the economy"
Botting will give you way more gold than the AH will. I promise you that. Just leveling a character 1-100 is around 15k gold ez. But most people who are making gold to sell don't upgrade to wod. And I would recommend not doing that if you are planning to bot full time. The price of gold will for sure change with the next patch, that would be a good indicator of how much profit you could make. You need to look at how much gold you are making per month now, and the price of gold. Do the math on cost vs profit and you will see if its worth it. For me right now, it's worth it. The price of gold is low but if I sold I'd still make profit.
I remember my first girlfriend didn't want to work for a living either, she wanted to be a model and I even had to take her along to modelling agencies. But when we would go in there the other girls there would each be like the most beautiful human being you had seen that year, while umm... wow I cant remember her name. Anyway she was just a dreamer and too lazy to work. Are you seeing the relevance of this little story to your own life? P.S. Amber!
sure it can, requires long term thinking tho. Biggest thing i can give u is watch what beliefs you take it, forums are riddled with poisonous beliefs "no gold not, its over" "should have started years ago" "botting is dead", those beliefs will cause you to stop taking action. Believe me, you take each month and theres those same sentences rehashed from "casual botters". You want a professional botters mentality, which requires positives beliefs. Other guy is right, career? maybe not, but a part time business? definitively so
I used to bot Runescape, then moved on to WoW. I managed to get my main that I had since Vanilla banned.. it crushed me. I added a new license to my account but couldn't bring myself to play for the longest time. Then I decided to do it as a business with accounts I didn't care about. Accounts would take a week to level up, and only last two days, but those two days paid for the account and then some. I took it as business expenses and charted my profits. People say all the time "don't bot on accounts you aren't afraid to lose".. that's hard. I always started an account thinking I didn't care - but I really did. I'd get attached and hopeful then crushed when they got banned. I've woken up countless times to having everything banned, but eventually the feeling of horror when they all disconnect at the same time wore off. In school we were learning C++, but in my free time I was learning C# just so I could code my own profiles, plugins, and botbases to maximize those profits as best as I could and automate my processes. Botting helped pay for my school and actually led to me starting a career as a software developer when I only had a few very basic programming classes at the time (https://www.thebuddyforum.com/honorbuddy-forum/success-stories/150016-owe-programming-job-hb.html). Yes you can make some money botting. Don't make a career out of it. Automate absolutely everything you can so you don't end up spending more time botting than on school. Don't get attached to accounts - treat them as business expenses and consider them banned the second you click start. Save for backups! One of the worst mistakes I ever did was blow the money I made botting, then got banned earlier than I had planned. I couldn't afford to start up again for a while. Stay on top of updates. The game changes all the time and old methods might get nerfed with new ones created. Especially pay attention to how the upcoming game time tokens affects the markets. Don't worry about people trying to insult you for not having a "real" job. There is absolutely nothing wrong with making money online. Just be sure you actually are making money, and that how much you make is acceptable for the hours you put in. Keep track of everything.. how much you're making and spending for taxes and your own personal use. Don't be shy about botting - own it. Being self-employed actually making yourself money looks a lot better on a resume than unemployed for the same period of time. Just come up with some creative words to describe it instead of "Botted WoW 2010-2013"... and know how to respond when they ask you about it.
Thanks you very much for the inspiring words! I am too going for a computer science degree, ill be finishing my second year this semester. I am specializing in computer programming, my favorite language so far is Java. Which isn't too far different from C#. I always wondered how these HB programs and plugins are made but i'm not sure where to learn it all. The fact that this little program was such a success to you blows my mind! You're definitely someone i look up to. People insulting me and posting negative comments on these forums doesn't effect me at all. Ive learned a long time ago that you can only trust yourself. I'm still milking dungeons until i can pick out something that brings in higher profits. Thank you again for the encouraging post! I feel better now that someone has had made some real success out of it all.
So guys when you got like loads of gold and you are probably getting banned really soon, what do you do with that gold? Do you sell it right away? Like when you hit 100k? Or do you send it to another account to store the gold while the bots keep doing it's thing and repeat?
Heavy gold farmer/seller always keep one Mule account which is the guild leader where the bots depositing, they do not bot on that mule not to risk it. Personally I sell in 100k bulks of no demand I still continue farming and sell in 150/200k bulks but even with 2 farming bots I have 1 mule
This is the way to go, but not botting on the mule will only save you from an automated ban, the mule will get banned as well when it is a manual investigation.
1. Botting for money is work 2. You can earn better money and work experience getting an actual job ^^
There are still ways to make money from many video games but the golden glory days of making good money from warcraft are long long gone.
I do remember the beginnings of Diablo3 where 1.000.000 gold sold for 20€ and thats not too long ago ^^
I fill guildbanks to gold cap and sell them to guildies via teamspeak. Has worked very well. Plus as its gold cap, guildies can club together to make it cheaper. Less likely to get ripped off aswell (I did say LESS ;p)
So creating a guild on another bnet account or another wow account? Can you also send the gold to your main via mailbox? Does that work too?
