General boting guide

[dtk]

This is a general boting guide that applies to 90% of boters.

1. Always try a bot with 10 day trial account first (not possible with fishing bots or BG bots, if anyone has any idea how to test those on trial accounts please let me know)
2. Follow bot author's best practices. If the instruction is to launch WOW with the bot, don't be a smart ass by laucnhing WOW yourself and think it works just fine.
3. If you can't follow instructions or can't make it work, don't use the bot. Just too much risk.
4. Avoid public profiles. Just not worth the risk.
5. Farm with casters. Casters usually has higher dps and smaller risk of getting stuck when pulling mob. Magi are the best because they can make water/food for faster recovery.
6. Avoid populated areas and quest items (no need to explain this)
7. don't afraid to travel. Travlers find the best spots.



General bot types:
1. non-injection bots. Examples are Glider, zoloFighter. Those bots reads WOW's memory and send key strokes to WOW by emulate your computer's normal input path. So when you are boting, you can't use your computer any more (constant key presses).

2. Injected bots. InnerSpace and Glider Elite are the examples. Those bots inject themselfs into WOW's memory space, and send key strokes by directly telling WOW "here is a key". You can bot several WOW instances and you can still use your computer for other things. Also there won't be key misses either like the non-injected bots. The main downside for this approach is security. The author has to patch all the holes of WOW detection. Examples will be, when you minimize WOW, the bot is still sending keys, and the author has to make sure Get WindowState function still shows window is not minimized. The author also must fool WOW by showing the hardware state of keyboard is insync with their version, just a lot of holes to patch. But because so many people are using them and no bans, I will say both above bots are very safe to use.


Bot cost:
Cost various, from $25 a shoot, monthly, donations to free. Usually the cheaper the bot, the harder to setup :-)

Post note:
Is glider a injected bot or not? background bot usually means injection, but I read other posts say glider is not injected.

[dtk]

sorry for the double post, the forum was not responding so I clicked again. Piggy can you remove one of those? Thanks

[Kartio]

sorry for the double post, the forum was not responding so I clicked again. Piggy can you remove one of those? Thanks

PIGGEH COEM TO RESCUE PL0X





Ontopic: This is nice for the beginners. I add this to my guide.

[Aggrovate]

Nice for newbiehs.

[Matador]

Really helpful, if you are new, indeed.

Though I am pretty shure Piggy or KuRIoS posted something like this already.

[serx]

cool...i will keep those in mind.

[dtk]

Thanks for the rep guys!

[ImTheEnd]

nice guide for beginners so +Rep dude...

[smaloney]

thnx for this ive been looking for a free bot n zolofighter is pretty decent

[deltadude2]

this will help ^ ^

[dtk]

it is not totally free, but the free version runs for a long time, so it is almost free.

[Condor]

I have problems with this glider program, i ghet the launchpad, managed to find myselfe a valid key and all si and la, settings are ok, and if i press launc, it opens wow. and when i log in i see my char, but it does nothing, and i dont ghet the yellow screen. And when i load up a config file it also doesnt do anything. All the bot does for me is keeping logfiles of the chat :s

[Garry__]

Good guide for starters, this would have helped me before. Either way +1 Rep!

[dtk]

I got 14 points now, tyvm!

[tttommeke]

Innerspace = 10$/3 months and openbot is free...