Up this topic I would like to know is how many of you have not been banned by Blizzard and hope that you can share a little experience that you think that is why Blizzard can not you be banned. Thank you!
I've certainly been banned on some accounts of mine for heavy botting, but that's because I was in it for the money. If you're casually botting for the purpose of automation, then it's much easier not to get banned if you're smart about it. Quest-botting rarely gets you banned these days, statistically (unless you quest for days on end) there's nothing you can really get flagged for while questing as plenty of losers quest till their eyes explode. Grinding will certainly get yourself flagged if you aren't careful about it. If not done in moderation you will get some heavy suspicion at minimum. BG botting is normally fine unless the bot isn't working well or the CC you're using also isn't working well. Player reports cause GM's to actually pay attention to your character, which is then you basically asking to get banned. Fishbotting, Questing, and Archaeology are generally the ones that won't get you banned as easily. Grinding, Pvping, Gathering, and various Dungeon-ing require some very healthy numbers or bot-readiness to not get yourself reported or something. If you want to multibot, look into a VP-N/VMware. Don't bot for unhuman amounts of time, get appropriate CC's and profiles that are trusted or make sure they work properly. That's about it. You can get very unlucky or really lucky, however being smart about it while trying to keep in mind the limits of a human being will keep you in the green.
I have been been botting since vanilla using MMOGlider (WoWGlider), open-bot (Innerspace), Pyrox-bot (very briefly, didn't really like it),... The things I always do and don't are very easy. I don't become greedy. - When I farm ores it is maybe 3-4 hours a day and I never sell them on the AH, I got a friendlist full of people waiting for me to tell me they can buy ores again. - Never sell more than 12 stacks to one guy. - I do not farm every day nor do I farm at the exact same time period - I do not bot PVP, have you seen this bot's BG logic? Once I botted BG and I was grouped with another warrior. That other warrior was even doing the exact same spells as I was. If Blizzard would tell their GM's to overwatch 10 BG's a day I wouldn't be surprised that their would be a sudden burst of bans because you can easily see who bots and who doesn't (yes, even with custom CC, pathing,...) - I keep chatting while botting, saying mundane things like one quest is a real bugger. - I am a human being, so when I hit a level I should be "excited". I do not wait until level 76 to get my fast mount, as soon as you ding at a specific level that will give you something special you go train that immediatly. - Once a guy whispered me that he would report me (WoWGlider). I just kept on chatting with him that I wasn't a bot but just had a shitty PC. Worked wonders. - I do play PVP while botting and when I am in a BG I play myself (not even lazyraider). - I go out ganking and laughing with my friends. - I am leveling a new character, and during leveling I still go do instances with my friends (boosts) but even just for achievements like heroics I do not receive any XP for. - I finish quests that HB wouldn't. Sometimes I just turn down HB to quest myself a bit. Why? If Blizzard just looks at a quest-profile and creates a logic that if a player only completes those quests he will be flagged for further inspection you are almost certain to be banned. Just always try to look human during botting. Not a lot of players like playing 1-85 in one hit. They go out and do instances they are too powerful for, they go gank the shit out of lower levels,... I believe that Blizzard doesn't care that you bot until you are doing it painfully obvious or are starting to annoy people (everyday putting 30 stacks of ore/herbs/... on the AH with an undercut of 20% while your character name is "B?nking" will red flag you in my book). Also, I'm a "casual" botter, I do not sell gold or anything. I just do not want to work for gold or level my self.
So, simply put, the way to not being banned, is nearly not botting at all, because for me its a marginal difference between gathering 3-4 hours several days per week by hand, and watching how your bot is doing it, then bothering with finding multiple buyers who will not report me, while i could just put it on AH if i was legit farmer...
No! But... You are botting and and you should know the risks involved in doing this if you aren't smart about what you are doing then you will probably be banned... So sure you could say 'the less time you bot could probably lessen the chance of a ban' but if you bot safe you are better off than botting stupid even for a small amount of time! I hope this makes sense and again the point is Be smart
I guess the moral is to act less bot like. Normal people need to take breaks and they get bored. I usually bot on one monitor and watch NETFLIX on the other.
Never been banned in my botting life; and the only reasons i can think of is not using the same profiles for long periods, not botting more than maximum 8 hours and not doing it daily
ive been botting of and on since tbc and never been banned (the account is from vanilla). Ive used: mmoglider, a similar private bot, fishing bot (pixel) and now honorbuddy. I've not done bg or instance botting. Exposing the bot to players seems like asking for a ban to me. I've always used some form of "avoid players" functionality. A bot will look like a bot, don't fool yourself into thinking otherwise. I've never left it on for longer hours than a human would play (note: would, not could). I would never in my life spend 6 hours straight just mining so i dont let my bot do that either. I've used some form of whisper monitoring. Either some alert if im nearby or just a straight log off if a whisper was detected. note: i dont believe in aiml solutions. Done a lot of monitoring, learning the quirks of the bot before Ive left it for longer afk runs. All in all ive just been careful in general and tried to avoid human interaction as much as possible. Its all about risk. I could risk more and get more rewards but i prefer to play it safe and fly under the radar.
raises hand. been at it for 4 years (2 with HB/GB). dozens of accounts and ~2x that number of max level toons (i sell some accounts) no bans, warnings, player threats - only 1 other player ever spoke of being suspicious of my toons. i don't go 'balls out' therefore i end up spending more time to level (or enhance a max level toon) than most but i don't lose accounts. i simply follow much of the advice of others that have preceeded me and use common sense to stay under the radar of other players and blizz.
I've never been banned, in any blizzard game. I bot easily 20 hours a day, everyday, hardly ever watch it. The only time it stops is if I DC over night. I have two accounts, and do all sorts of botting. PvP, questing, farming, etc. But I NEVER grind, that seems like a bad idea. I've botted runescape and Rift aswell, never gotten banned. I think I'm just lucky.
Me - Never banned insane account, 13,5k achiv points, lots of TGC mounts'n pets Botting is better then real playing !
Ive never been banned, I have even RAF my accounts, Its all about watching your bot here and there to make sure its doing the right thing. I go in dungeons and bot and say hey to everyone and start the bot up and they think im really playing I love it , I have never used gatherbuddy or done BG's. Act human and you will be safe, A average human sleeps for 6-7 hours a day, So I go on and off 2 hours and then 3 ect. I remember glider back in the day now you could really tell that was a bot but if you played it right, You could dodge alot of trouble, Ive even talked to a GM while botting
cool story Gold: 160,000 (-100,000. And I don't know where it went.) made me reply how can you not know.
Its weird. I stopped botting for a couple months once, and when I came back, I was missing a lot of gold. No characters, or items missing. Just gold.
