Originally Posted by
kindar
Just as a heads up, I was banned today. My account had been suspended once in the past a few years ago for running a script that would make my character stand still and aoe constantly in order to grind Booty Bay reps. I've dabbled with fishbotting for the past year and a half and had found it a pretty safe way to make a decent amount of gold. With the addition of the water in the garrison, I had assumed I was untouchable now. Not the case.
I switched over from CoolFish to this app at the start of WoD. I want to make it clear that I don't think I was banned because this software was "detected" or whatever, but I just wanted to give people a little bit of insight as to why I got banned.
I play on a very high pop server, and basically since the start of WoD I've been fishbotting any time I was asleep, at work, or otherwise away from the house. First of all, that's a bad idea in itself. No person is going to manage to be online nearly 24/7 since the start of the expansion. Even if you're not doing anything illegal, it'll eventually get people looking at you. Granted, it never happened to me in MoP and I fishbotted all the time back then too, which leads me to my next point.
If you're selling your fish, be careful to not dump it all at once. With the addition of the different sizes of fish and whatnot, it obviously shows that you've been botting if you dump multiple stacks of 200 of every kind of enormous fish. I doubt Blizz has an automated system for that, but other players will definitely pick up on it and report you in a heartbeat for cutting into their profits.
I had this account for over seven years and had accomplished a ton of stuff (21k+ achievement points, all sorts of rare and old-school stuff in the bank, every legendary, etc etc) and lost it all because I got greedy. I still don't feel that what I did was that horrible, but I understand Blizz's outlook on it too. So be safe out there, and have fun!