I've never botted before and just wanted to level one alt exactly how I described in the title. I've used it about 16 hours on and off in a 30 hour period, but I usually play that much or more anyway. Is this extremely risky or will I likely be okay?
I have done it multiple times on my main account. I just do random times and ALWAYS babysit it. I can be alt-tabbed and looking at something, or I can be waiting for a dungeon queue and do that by hand. You should be fine if you babysit it and don't do more than 6-8 hours at a time just to be safe.
levelled 8 toons with it, to add to the 3 i did by hand b4 botting , have 11/11 at 100 and full i620 pvp gear ty botting
I just started botting the 90-100 quests this week (after doing 4 100s manually ughhhh). I must say it's really, really good but you do need to be careful. There's a quest in Frostfire or Gorgrond, (I forget which) that require the bot to click on a wooden gate. So far each one of my toons that has gotten to that point just runs back and forth at the spot. I had a missed whisper on one and couldn't read what it said so I may have been reported. I just make sure I don't let it run overnight anymore if I'm not past that quest. Unfortunately I don't remember which quest it is though. It's in a cave with ogres that requires you to click on the wooden gate. Also if you have any repair mount, I've had an issue with it trying to mount up and repair / sell only to dismount and re-mount over and over. I have to manually repair and sell every couple hours to avoid it. I read a bit of people having that same issue on here. I even bought the Yak mount since it was thought to be an issue with the mammoth mount. It did not fix it. If you don't have a repair mount at all, I don't think it's an issue.
Go for it. I did decide that I'd at least level my main manually this expansion but I didn't bother. Levelled a few toons now using the profiles, much easier than by hand. Others have mentioned the bits where you'll need to interact. I tend to do mine when I'm in the same building at least and look in every now and then.
I'm for the moment of maxing 2 accounts (22 chars to 100), halfway there so far. My only recommendation is that always monitor what your bot does just incase it derps out. So that means, never let your bot running while sleeping/working or going out with friends etc. If you could do that, then bot away! ^_^