Botting across different continents with Honorbuddy and Arelog for ALLIANCE

[Clueless_noob]

DISCLAIMER: this is for Alliance only, might take the time to make a horde version if there are enough requests

I'm quite sure that at some point you wished to be able to bot different herbs for stocking up your alchemist without having to switch the profile in Honorbuddy and manually moving to the area you want to farm or you'd have liked to log on your banker just to find stacks of smelted bars farmed overnight by your bot instead of mailing them back to your miner and wait for it to smelt 100 stacks... and it gets worse the more bots you have.

Arelog addresses some of those issues by adding scheduling, but you cannot simply schedule a shimmering expanse profile and a deepholm because Honorbuddy is not able at this time to navigate different zones.

Guess what? I've found a way to circumvent this technical limitation and I'm realeasing it to the public.

1) WHAT YOU WILL NEED
- Honorbuddy a working install
- Arelog a working install
- MoveTo profiles
- A bit of logical thinking

2) FARMING ACROSS CONTINENTS?
How did I manage to overcome HB limitations? It's rather easy, Bossland didn't code any easy shortcut or setting to change continents (I'm strongly convinced that they should have done) but the tools to do so are already there if you use a questing profile and a bunch of questing behaviors to perform macros, go through portals and so on; I just assembled them together to achieve my goal.

3) WHAT ZONES CAN YOU MOVE FROM AND WHAT ZONES YOU CAN MOVE TO
Move from:
- Dalaran if for some reason you have still your hs set there this will take the portal to Stormwind
- Uldum
- Shimmering Expanse
- Deepholm
- Twilight Highlands

Move to:
- Uldum
- Vashjir
- Deepholm
- Twilight Highlands

Not supported but planned for future releases:
- Taking a boat to Northrend
- Going through the Dark portal
- Tol Barad
- Hyjal

4) SETTING UP HONORBUDDY
For this guide I'll assume that you have a working HB install and farming profiles without stucks.
Nothing needs to be setup in Honorbuddy.

5) SETTING UP ARELOG AND TECHNICAL LIMITATIONS
For this guide I'll assume that you have a working ARelog install and you know how to use it, if you have trouble getting it to work as a simple relogger use the HB support forum.

-Create a new preset for your account or use an existing one then click on "Schedule Selected", this is where we'll be programming a sequence of tasks that Arelog will perform.

The sad truth is that there's no easy way to streamline and make it more user friendly; the Gatherbuddy botbase doesn't support any tag and quest behavior so we'll have to use the Questing botbase that on the other hand is incapable of gathering and flying at the same time, ARelog ability to switch botbases is what allows to use each botbase for what is good for and ditch it when is no longer of use.

6) PLANNING AHEAD
- You'll have to plan a zone rotation like this one:
Farm in Uldum for X hours--->MoveToDeepholm--->Farm in Deepholm for X hours--->MoveToTwilightHighlands--->Farm in Twilight Highlands for x hours

7) THE HUGE PNG OF DOOM (because I'm too lazy to upload 4 pictures so you'll get just one with the rest of the guide)


8 ) SMELTING? I DON'T LIKE THAT!
You can disable it by... deleting the right pieces of code in the move to profiles.
Delete this for each profile

		<CustomBehavior File="Misc\RunLua" Lua="CastSpellByID(2656)" />
<!--Smelting Obsidium-->
<While Condition="GetItemCount(53038) &gt; 1 &amp;&amp; MiningSkill.CurrentValue &gt; 424">			
		<CustomBehavior File="Misc\RunLua" Lua="for i=1,GetNumTradeSkills() do if GetTradeSkillInfo(i)=='Smelt Obsidium' then DoTradeSkill(i,GetItemCount('Obsidium Ore')/2) break end end " />
		<CustomBehavior File="WaitTimer" WaitTime="15000"/>
</While>
<!--Smelting Elementium-->
<While Condition="GetItemCount(52185) &gt; 1 &amp;&amp; MiningSkill.CurrentValue &gt; 474">			
		<CustomBehavior File="Misc\RunLua" Lua="for i=1,GetNumTradeSkills() do if GetTradeSkillInfo(i)=='Smelt Elementium' then DoTradeSkill(i,GetItemCount('Elementium Ore')/2) break end end " />
		<CustomBehavior File="WaitTimer" WaitTime="15000"/>
</While>
<!--Smelting Pyrite-->
<While Condition="GetItemCount(52183) &gt; 1 &amp;&amp; MiningSkill.CurrentValue &gt; 524">			
		<CustomBehavior File="Misc\RunLua" Lua="for i=1,GetNumTradeSkills() do if GetTradeSkillInfo(i)=='Smelt Pyrite' then DoTradeSkill(i,GetItemCount('Pyrite Ore')/2) break end end " />
		<CustomBehavior File="WaitTimer" WaitTime="15000"/>
</While>
		<CustomBehavior File="Misc\RunLua" Lua="CloseTradeSkill()" />

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[Synrithh]

Great guide!

I just have a question for a noob-botter like myself, is it possible to set up an own route in Uldum that the bot just flies around and not picking up any ores or such, just flying around.

I wish to do this with my route trying to find the Mysterious Camel Figurine because it's just awful boring to fly around and wait for NPCscan to pop off.

[Clueless_noob]

not only is possible but it's easy to do

1) select the gatherbuddy2 botbase
2) click on setting and tools--->bot config--->gather tab-->uncheck mining and herbalism boxes
3) load (or create a profile by yourself, I posted a guide for that) an uldum profile and fly around without gathering anything

there's a plugin called rarekiller that automates the grinding entirely, you might want to look for it on the honorbuddy forums

[Synrithh]

Okay! A further question, what is the risk of getting banned then if I only fly around in Uldum without mining and such?

[Clueless_noob]

Okay! A further question, what is the risk of getting banned then if I only fly around in Uldum without mining and such?

almost the same

you won't risk a player report, but using any bot is always a risk

[phantom325]

Very nice work, +Rep.

[MikeRussia]

LF the Horde version.