[Neutral] Bodyguard farming 10,000+ XP an hour (Gorgrond)

This is a semi-developed profile for the Overlook Ruins area of Gorgrond. The area is perfect for leveling followers as it contains a surplus of low health group trash mobs on a great respawn timer. Running Singular I was able to get a complete bodyguard level (10,000 XP) in about 47 minutes. You could run this unattended, but I would recommend at least watching it on a second monitor since the area is quite popular on some realms. (completely dead on mine) The coordinates for Overlook Ruins are (51, 71), see the photo below.




I worked on this profile with a hunter so melee classes may have issues with HB pathing to some of the mobs. I used and recommend Singular to run this profile, the following changes to class config are necessary.

Singular Settings

Evade Attacks allowed: (1-3) Your choice but definitely no higher than 3, I ran it on 2. On my realm there are currently 3 trouble mobs in the area, they always cause an evade so this way HB keeps them blacklisted pretty much the entire time you are there.

Pull More Count: 3, Pull More Dist Ranged: 30 You will be constantly pulling this way, but nothing too ridiculous.

Class Specific: Since you will be pulling large groups of monsters, Singular's default defensive settings will want to use cooldowns like Deterrence for no reason. You need to make sure you turn these mob count triggers up so it won't happen. I just set Deterrence count to 99 since nothing in the area is remotely dangerous. I also removed my Glyph of Misdirection to look a little more human-like.

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Honorbuddy Settings

In order to get this profile to work set Honorbuddy to "Questing" mode, it will loop this profile until you run out of bag space, which should be long after your followers are level 3 Wingman status. For this reason I have assigned no vendors or mailboxes to the script.

For Honorbuddy Settings & Tools change mount distance to 200. The area being farmed is so small constantly mounting up looks suspicious. Also there are a few paths in this area that medium to large size mounts WILL get stuck on. No amount of blackspotting has been able to fix the issue. With this setting you should never mount.

Turn off Kill Between Checkpoints, this would occasionally cause the script to venture beyond black spots and not be able to find a way back to the area being farmed. (I think)

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Additional Information

The profile consists of 5 Hotspots and 22 Blackspots. For this reason Hotspot Randomization has been disabled, it would occasionally run back and forth in circles when the randomizer rolled 1, 2, 1, etc. The Blackspots were added to make the bot look a bit more human-like, with the intention of avoiding some of the ridiculously creative HB pathing. I also intended for it to avoid the evading mobs and areas that caused HB to occasionally do a small 360. I also set Roardan the Sky Terror to be avoided, as he would occasionally fly over the area and throw the bot off.

TuanHA Support
I also tested it with TuanHA Hunter, the process was 5-8 minutes faster but IMO more dangerous. Evade mob support for TuanHA is built into the combat rotation and cannot be edited through class config, so for this area it's better to just stick to singular.

Hunter Specific Information
I recommend running Marksman or Survival spec for this profile, issues can arise in the combat routines of Singular/TuanHA when a flying mob cannot be targeted with pet abilities like Kill Command, causing the bot to become temporarily stuck.

 

I see that you wrote that melee may have an issue since you tested with a hunter. I'm curious why you're running it in Gorgrond instead of the Burning Front in Talador.
I went from nothing to personal wingman in around 30-40mins. The spawn is on an interval of I think 10secs?

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I offered this profile as an alternative to the higher traffic popular areas. Personally I have a profile for the burning front, but on my sever there is always at least two other people there and I like to be safe. I agree though, this area is much faster.