Hello everyone, my nickname is Sterioss but I've always hide it for obvious reasons.. Long story short I've been arround for 5years now quited after last banwave, but was gonna stop soon anyway from how WoW is going these days (#Garrisons..) and now I feel like I want to share with this community for the first and probably last time (nothing mean here). This post won't be some kind of rant neither a "how to avoid bans" type of subject so if you're looking into those you can close the tab already. I started the game as a young teenage boy playing by myself until the day one of my online friends told me about that botting program called Honorbuddy, I didn't play very long by myself to be honnest until then so I really enjoyed using HB. I got banned really quick farming 24/7 Uldum with my main account, bans were 3days first back then so I learnt my lesson from it. I think that give me the first scare of loosing an account and I started to play it safe with plugins and planning farming time to look as human as possible, I wasn't going paranoid though but I really cared this time. I ended up meeting my first guild mates and started PvE/PvP. At this point I was still doing the content by myself (no Enyo or LazyBot) but very quick I heard of it and at first I was giving it a very perplexed look. But then I ended up using it with my Holy Paladin with the very first Ultimate Holy Paladin CC (Old ones will remember). The CR didn't come with a lot of features and was really buggy/slow (from both my computer and HB optimisation I suppose) but that was really enjoyable for me, I felt like I had to keep it as a secret to my friend though. So I kept going on for a long while until TuanHA popped as a community developper. I don't think the BuddyTeam was aknowledging this using for their software but a small part of the community was having fun with it. No one really knew about this using for the bot outside of the buddyforum and that meant blizzard had no interest to ban people using it (and they had no way other than getting reports to do it anyway or at least that's my guess about it). I started using CRs for PvP and got very close to one of my guild mates and we still are very close after all these years. And from then I kept following the wave until WoD doing PvE/PvP with many classes running HB CRs. That's when the first CR bans came. At this point I didn't know what to do because I felt like I was playing very safe, only CRs. I was kind of angry at the HB team at first but from my experience I know that they cannot do much when Blizzard is doing a move ; they are doing the most they can to protect us from methods they know about. But that's when it got personal to me : I had to explain to my friend how I got banned for 6months like half our guild with everyone saying "bot banwave" at the same moment. We talked a bit I told him I used to bot a long while ago and got IP flagged because I ran 5 bots 24/7 (which happened, don't know about IP flag though). He went cool with it, I was happy. We made new accounts went back 100 really quick and started doing arenas for the ratings this time. Oh, and I kept using CRs. We played for a while had a blastn, met a lot of new peoples.. That was one of the greatest time of my WoW experience ; until I got baneed again. When you already use the "I used to bot" joker there's not much you can do there. I said the same thing, we agreed that Blizzard is fucked up and made new accounts again.. And for another banwave.. And now here we are. Still playing together but we stopped the game because Blizzard is now more hungry for money than ever and their policy about botting changed from "ban only reports" to "banwave every bot cought in the last 6months", which is great if you start botting right after a banwave but really fucked up if you want to play PvE/PvP high level with it. Now that everything is done I can truly thanks everyone who made my WoW experience and 5years of my life, a really great experience. Including : - The whole BuddyStaff Team for their awesome work on making another aspect into the best MMO ever made ; - TuanHA because he was one of the first to launch the CR developing community with his very configurable CRs; - Cokx and Toizi for making really good CRs allowing botting in competitive arenas ; - Kickazz006 for developping the entire questing profiles and updating them for so long ; - bobby53 who made the first manual movement bot-base and the best Shaman CR for a really long time before using them in arena and raids was a thing ; - Everyone who contribued to this project and made it for the best.. TL;DR : Good times in arenas/raids with my best friend met in-game, played after all CR bans but stopped after this one. In conclusion, I would want to bring attention to the fact that I understand the point of people saying "usings bot to automate what other players are doing is stupid" but I want those people to understand that everyone is enjoying things differently, I'm sure some others will get it my way. If I had not access to all these tools I would probably have played the game completely differently and never have met my best friend.. BTW : english is not my native language so quote me if I'm saying stup'd.
gold sellers can say casual pvpers ruined it for everyone because 90% of the qq on wow official forums are due to pvp battleground/arenas making blizzard finally cave in to do something... cannot just blame gold farmers... sorry that's b.s it's everyone using the bot that has drawn attention to hb for using it as it is intended. if you think im wrong then let me use this as an example i run 11 bots farming instances, i have no affect on people playing infact only people i piss off is other botters who are jealous or just total dicks casual players are noticable in the world and especially in pvp botting and piss fellow players off to moan and report report report on qq causing blizzard to ***** down... so who is the worse of the two? me with 11 farming bots doing instances for personal small time profit for ingame or to sell for a little bit of money or say person b who is using hb in arena/battleground and pissing off people qq about bots.... not rocket science to figure out which is worse... so let not start the blame game since no one is innocent lets be honest we are all to blame by botting.
I agree with you. People enjoy the game differently. I love having the bots do most of the work during raiding, so i can enjoy it without much stress.
