1)Were you using Honorbuddy, Gatherbuddy or both on the account? Honorbuddy 2)Which version (and Beta or Release)?: Release 3)If so, when was the last time?: 12/10/2014 9:00 P.M. 4)What profile were you using?: Gundrak Dungeon Farm 5)What combat class were you using? if None Just put Default then the Classname: Default 6)What plugins are you using?: None 7)How many hours per day did you bot for?: 12 hours each account 8)What honest percentage of time did you supervise your bot? 40% 9)How many auctions per day did you have?: 0 10)Did you Use Any Other Bots, Hacks, or Mods? No 11)Was your account involved in gold selling? Yes 12)EU or US realm? US 13)Is the banned account a Scroll of Resurrection or an actual paid account? Paid ***NOTICE OF LICENSE TERMINATION*** Account: WOW1 Offense: Use of Bots or Third-Party Automation Software Blizzard has terminated this World of Warcraft license after identifying the usage of bots or other cheat software. These programs (commonly called cheats, bots, and hacks) automate certain aspects of gameplay, or provide unintended advantages and abilities to the player. This type of cheating undermines other players' experience and severely upsets the balance of the game environment. Blizzard reserves the right to terminate access for conduct of this nature, with or without warning, as noted in the World of Warcraft Terms of Use: Blizzard Entertainment: World of Warcraft Terms of Use This page contains details on how suspensions are appealed and reviewed: How to Appeal Suspensions and Closures - Battle.net Support Regards, Blizzard Entertainment Okay so i just got my first batch of 12 accounts banned, they all used the same IP/Computer. They all lasted me the full free month of game time and i expected it sooner or later. Before creating my second batch of accounts, i want to ask the community a question. I am going to call my ISP and change my IP address, change my RAM to different slots, replace my HDD, replace windows 8 with windows 7, AND reinstall WoW. Is there anything else i can do to properly "clean" my PC so i dont get banned the first day on the new accounts? I will be looking forwards to the responses, thanks for the help in advance!
It should be more than enough, as far as I know only Abuse of Economy bans tend to get that kind of attention from Blizzard.
A month ago I lost 15 accounts due to DB farming. Started back up like nothing happened and still running. I never do all the above and have been doing this for over 5 years now. If I feel the heat and think Im being watched I change regions for a while.
Lots of useless stuff to do? Why when its decent enough if you reinstall windows+wow. Blizzard do never care for your IP, unless its within some blacklisted range of popular proxy/vpn services, used for hacking/spamming behaviors.
ram/HDD moving and replacing is waaaaay overkill, the other stuff prob too but that is just nuts, those are absolutely not needed
Oh, well ive been reading around the forums and thats what people were suggesting so i thought i would try it out. Im new to the multiple account botting scene which is why im asking for suggestions. Thank you for the replies!
You are welcome. Indeed since Blizzard do not leak their ban-patterns for obvious reason, we as community start to assume this and that, but since the time pass, and the both ban-reports, and people direct experience with ban-less botting, we do draw the picture on our end. I must write the leading of the Top 3 fake assumption about the blizzards ban-style: LCP Detection Its myth! Or more than myth, its legend, but fake one. Do not exist for tons of reasons, but mine reason is strong enough: Used 8x of my MoP GB2 Bots with only ONE single and public multizone gathering profile made by Gatherit 2 years ago! Without random hotspots The only rule was - to not use it on 2 bots are a time on the same server, so they do not form a bot-train So 5x of them are still intact after: 2 years of botting. 2-4 hours spent farming daily, on 1 or 2 hour brakes 6 days/week. Single profile, not changed for 2 years! Most of them got once or two times 72hrs for these 2 years. Yes, got 3 shutted down in different months in the 2014 (2nd year of them) 1 for goldselling 500k to a private buyers - Auto-banned for AoE 1 taken away after got targeted by other botter on its server, so prolly got reported multiple times. 1 got 2nd 72h just a week after its first, so bad luck. If LCP was existent, all should be shutted down year ago at least!
LCP allegedly started somewhere last year i think, where accs started to get banned a lot faster when using public profiles and the buddy team took measures shortly after implementing a slight randomization to each coordinate in gatherbuddy, thats why you never got banned. Plus you barely use the bot.. 2-4 hours a day with breaks, that could have helped you to avoid it. I know someone that in that era made a profile where the toon flew non stop on 3 spots over the sea where no one could report him. got banned after a few days.
The gatherbuddy randomization is just an option, you can have it, or have it not. Then the whole LCP paranoya still had no single solid proof for existence. The following example shows it: Try using GB2 in pandaria on 2 characters, one using static profile, other using rndbuddy, they will be banned nearly in the same time. The reports in this section proved it - there was not less GB2 reports using static profiles, than the Rndbuddy ones, so its more than common sence, that the major issue with handling gathering accounts is not related to the path. That proves are the few reports from hand-farmed persons, which do still wrote reports here about banned after 5-6hours straight farming by hand (because the guys had no $ to obtain Honorbuddy, so attempted to farm some resources by hand to be able to afford it)
But the option is on by default and i bet no one turns it off, if they even know it exists. Reports been a major player doesn't mean there aren't other ways to catch you. Reports in this section only prove that people get banned, nothing else, you can theorize whatever you want, but thats the real extent of it. BTW, on the LCP frenzy era, there weren't any random buddy threads for monthes in this section, just to add to your so called proof. Stop taking things as facts or proofs when they are not, and i repeat myself, it alledgedly started around that time, not something we really know.
