Recently started botting again, and it's great! Starting up at the beginning of this expansion has made me so much more money than when I started botting near the end of WotLK. I have some questions for you guys regarding item transfer, and a couple of precautions that I'm thinking of taking starting today; one of which includes lowerping. First off. How do you guys transfer items in between accounts? I have my botting toon in my Mains guild. (Level 23 gives increased harvest yield) and I'm pretty much forced to mail all of my mats to a botting "auctioneer" (same account). The auction toon then uses a guild bank to transfer the mats to a bank alt on my mains account; which gets sent to my main for prospecting/alchemy/insc/etc. (different account) Lots of mail in the end... But all within the same accounts. Is this safe in your opinion? Does blizzard track massive mat mails to toons on the same account? Should I just take my bot out of my mains guild (which hits xp cap every day) and put it in my AH toons guild bank to stop the massive mails? Second. Since I'm using the same computer to bot on that I'm playing my main on, I was thinking of installing VMware in order to circumvent any MAC Address "problems" if my bot gets banned down the line. Do you guys think this is worth the effort? I've read some of bossland's posts on MACs being used to sting multiple accounts involved with botting, but I'd like some clarification. I was also thinking of using Lowerping along with VMware to mask my IP address. I'd use a lowerping server situated on the West Coast. (I live on the East Coast) Is lowerping capable of being used this way? From what I understand, it just routes your connection, and it doesn't change your IP, but I've seen some posts that state different. I pretty much have lowerping for life, and it would suck if I had to buy a VPN if lowerping could manage the same thing. Opinions and Protips are appreciated. Would you guys do anything different/better than what I am doing currently? TL;DR Botting is awesome! Is mailing items in bulk from character to character, on the same account, safe? Afterward, Guildbank transfers in between accounts... Safe? VMware. Should I worry about the safety of my main account via MAC address affiliation? Lowerping. Does it change the IP address blizzard sees, therefore replacing a VPN? Thanks in advance! Definitely going to get a lifetime account when I have the money.
I'd say yes. I do it and haven't been banned yet I'd say yes. I do it and haven't been banned yet As far as I know (!) if you don't play your main account while botting your main acc wont get banned via Mac addres
I wouldn't be playing both at the same time. I figured blizzard kept tabs on hardware profiles. If not, that will save me alot of trouble, lol.
Anyone else have some input? Really curious if I should go about doing these things... or am I just paranoid?
I'm curious if we should do something to protect us doing multiboxing? That way 2 or more accounts would be played at the same time. IP/MAC protectoin possible and needed? I'm with a provider where DHCP is needed...
