Hey guys, been using Honorbuddy for the last couple of days on a trial account to see how it behaves, etc. I was wondering how safe it would be to bot a couple of toons to 85 using kick's profiles? I won't be gathering or anything just questing. I've never botted before and really don't want to risk getting banned for a couple of 85's. I will be watching the bot 95% of the time, the other 5% will just be showers, eating, etc. Also if I get caught quest botting will it be a permaban or a suspension?
No one knows. It's botting. It's inherently unsafe. Some have never been banned. Some have had temp and perm bans. If you value your main account, don't bot on it. If you don't, bot away. No one can tell if it's safe or not. Just don't get greedy.
Okay, say for instance I get banned, what are the odds of them believing something such as Relative downloaded a bot and used it on my account without my knowledge, or maybe even say I got hacked?
HB is pretty safe using questing / arch bot / pvp bot instance - once dungeonbuddy comes out, it won't be very noticeable unless ur asked to CC or something gatherbuddy - use common sense and you won't get banned
As a new user to this program (4 weeks), I'd have to say it's quite safe for a few different modes. Personally, I find ArchBuddy, BGBuddy and LazyRaider great profiles with great results. Questing hasn't been so fruitful for me, The profiles that exist now are good, but nothing that suits my botting style (AFK for the most part), I've come back to a few different profiles just running and jumping into a wall or not waiting for a quest escort which has worried me if anyone saw me doing that for hours. GatherBuddy is a hotspot for bans, I've had a lot of close calls with players and GMs and I've been very lucky avoiding bans. I've been teleported a few times and I've had players whisper me things like "Fuk u botter" "R u a bot" "I'm going to report you". Stuff like that. My botting habit is around 8 hours a day, unsupervised for roughly 5 hours on two accounts running with Arelog on mixed mode Archeology/BG and I've never once received a whisper. (EDIT: To clarify; no whispers using this method) Being a new user though, I can only speculate what is safe and what isn't.
I'm playing ~6-10h per day, botting the rest of the day. So I'm almost on 24/7. No bans, warnings or anything. Barely a whisper while I'm botting. I've been botting since I made this account, 31/3 2012.
I see what you mean about the questing being buggy, i'm currently botting a Nelf Warrior (Now level 6) and i've had to intervene a couple of times due to getting stuck.
