Brief Review of HonorBuddy

[KuRIoS]

HonorBuddy

A much more detailed review here http://onlinebotters.com/reviews/honorbuddy-review/

We always see many threads on "What is the best leveling bot" here on MMOwned, I am using HonorBuddy for leveling and farming for items that requires me to kill mobs to achieve.

I set it up 1 week ago so I could farm the Parrot from STV(http://www.wowhead.com/?item=8494), it sells on my server for 26.000 - 45.000 gold. I read the readme on how to setup the nav paths and was smiling, from the readme it looks like the navigation works like it did on OpenBot!!!

I set my profile to be walking up the planks to the boats and kill what was there then go to the shore and kill there. (I had WaterWalking hack enabled for more speed)

Within 2 nights I had my parot, my priest was cutting through the mobs like a knife through butter. Using the standard combat routine (the bot supports customclasses)

Features (Taken from HB website)


Leveling 1 - 80, mostly done by 1 click from 1-60, 60-70, 70-80

PVP in AV, AB and WG

Supports any Mount

Skinning 1 - 450

Custom Classes - Classes which support all of your abillities

Navigation Mesh & HotSpots, no Waypoints

Includes 1 - 80 Nav Meshes & Profiles

Download more Profiles from the Forums

Full Background mode

Vendor and Mail on full Inventory

Hearths and logs out on full Inventory


Video of HonorBuddy

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AXvUjAvV7s"]YouTube - Honorbuddy[/ame]


Positives


* The NavMesh is a BIG positive in my opinion, no more stupid waypoints.
Customclasses, the priest Standard class for priest is awesome, easy to configure and lots of customization, good job Nesox! The forum is full of CustomClasses.

* Vendoring worked like a charm, I had my bot setup to vendor deep within the houses of booty bay, no problems there.

* PVP Bot, working in all Battlegrounds.

* 1-60, 60-70, 70-80 click and go.


Negatives

* The profile/pathing creation can be a bitch, specially if you don't like reading readmes. However this is how it is for all bots, many claimed that OpenBot had terrible pathing or that it was difficult, yet it was because they didnt bother reading how to do it.

* If you know hot to create pathing in Pather then this is not a problem.

* Pricing to some it is alot to pay for a bot, I do not think so, but that is just me.

Pricing(may change)

* Setup Price with 1 year included €14.99 euro

* Annually €14.99 euro

Where to buy
You can buy it here using my referral link, it is not more expensive than the other link, but i do get a small bonus for referring you
HonorBuddy Lifetime 80 Euro

HonorBuddy 1 session key - 1 year
HonorBuddy 1 Year 24.99

HonorBuddy 30 days paid plugins
HonorBuddy Paid Plugin 3.99

Questions & answers
Q: Is there any trial
A: There is a trial for level 1-20 on the forums - login with
username: test
pass: t3st
In the bot


From Members

Mixed BG explained:

In mixed BG you load a profile, like I loaded a 58-80 profile on my level 62 mage and it started grinding in Nagrand.
Using Mixed AV it automatically queue'd me for Alterac Valley which had a <1 minute timer. After about two minutes (because that's how great blizzard can be) I got the "Enter Battle" screen.
Honorbuddy automatically joined the battle and entered Alterac Valley. After three seconds the bot found that my character was in Alterac Valley and loaded the profile and the mesh.
In entire AV it's doing great, killing people, walking with the group and helping people kill enemies. My XP/H went from 80K (Just grinding) to 114K (Mixed AV) using this.
Now you might say "Oh great, you level 4 levels and then you find out you haven't been putting in your talents and therefor you've been leveling slower but I have a solution.
On the forums there is a plugin called eTalent (I think) which automatically fills in your talent points.

Positives

* Increased experience/hour
* Honor + marks

Negatives

* ehhmm......

Waypoint system vs Mesh system
HonorBuddy is the only public bot at the moment that uses a navigation mesh instead of a waypoints as we know them - IIRC.
Since many are in doubt what this actually means I have been trying to figure out how to describe it and i fell over a blog that describes it well.
Since there is no reason to invent the wheel twice I will just copy most from that blog.

This is taken from the AI blog and ALL credit goes to that Game/AI: Fixing Pathfinding Once and For All

The example he uses is for NPC's that wanders around, the waypoint system is a bit different than what we are used to see in most bots, but I think you will be able to get the point.
At least it made me understand it.


With a waypoint-based system, we need to place a waypoints to get full coverage. Our NPCs will end up doing a lot of zigzags during movement unless we specify a the waypoints in a direct line, this is not an option most of the time.



With a navigation mesh, on the other hand, we can describe the same area with a handful of convex polygons:



Honorbuddy use a pointbased navigation mesh, as explained by Apoc:



Using a waypoints, the NPC will have no other option than to follow the waypoints we have set. Hence we will have a nonhuman looking movement.



Since we know where a character can safely walk, we can smooth out the path in any way we like, so long as the smoothing keeps the path on the navigation mesh.


Taking a look at how HonorBuddy would take its way from A-B:


Another article for more info on navigation, thank you namreeb
Map representations

Apoc also posted about the current navmesh system in HB
http://www.mmowned.com/forums/bots-p...ml#post1772018

[KuRIoS]

I will look to answer any questions you may have, but technical stuff i will leave for the ones that know about it.

[grak]

Thanks for the review, it looks good.. I bought it a few days ago, but getting gametime tomorrow.. So looking forward to firing it up .

[KuRIoS]

Thanks for the review, it looks good.. I bought it a few days ago, but getting gametime tomorrow.. So looking forward to firing it up .

From what i hear, Mixed AV/farming should be awesome. I will try it out soon and add it to the review

[Krillere]

You.. Hate.. Cats?!

[Danne206]

Good review! I agree with you - it's simply quite awsome.

[JD]

The Mixed AV farming is the best thing I've ever seen in a bot, I'm leveling fast without it looking like I'm botting.

[deathmatron]

Do you happen to know if there is some sort of trial account that i can use?

[Willy]

Do you happen to know if there is some sort of trial account that i can use?

There is a trial for level 1-20 on the forums, go check it out awesome bot

[JD]

Mixed BG explained:

In mixed BG you load a profile, like I loaded a 58-80 profile on my level 62 mage and it started grinding in Nagrand.
Using Mixed AV it automatically queue'd me for Alterac Valley which had a <1 minute timer. After about two minutes (because that's how great blizzard can be) I got the "Enter Battle" screen.
Honorbuddy automatically joined the battle and entered Alterac Valley. After three seconds the bot found that my character was in Alterac Valley and loaded the profile and the mesh.
In entire AV it's doing great, killing people, walking with the group and helping people kill enemies. My XP/H went from 80K (Just grinding) to 114K (Mixed AV) using this.
Now you might say "Oh great, you level 4 levels and then you find out you haven't been putting in your talents and therefor you've been leveling slower but I have a solution.
On the forums there is a plugin called eTalent (I think) which automatically fills in your talent points.

Positives

* Increased experience/hour
* Honor + marks

Negatives

* ehhmm......


JD

[Nesox]

We are also working on adding questing, well MaiN is im just doing the RaF and some other stuff atm

[GordonGekko]

We are also working on adding questing, well MaiN is im just doing the RaF and some other stuff atm

A perfect and customizable RAF mode is the most important thing in my eyes. That is really an argument to go for HB instead of other bots.

Keep up your great wor, Nesox!!!

Thx
Gordon

[[Sadistic]]

the links are not working can i get some help here its hasnt been workin for past 3 weeks

[l1nk3]

Another positive is that there are already 1-60, 60-70, and 70-80 profiles made for everyone.

Also, i wish i knew about your referral link so i could have bought it with it, instead of buying it without it

[Mrmakje]

Hello, ehm, i downloaded the trial but nothing seems to tell me where i can get an account so i can log in.