Taking my next step in game hacking with wow rotation bot! Need some guidance!

[baseballdude02]

Hey All,

Last year, I put together a rotation bot using WeakAuras and PyAutoGui, written in Python.

Since then, I've been learning how to really hack. I've learned the basics of general game hacking (C++, debuggers, reversing/Ida, etc) and have been practicing with games like assault cube, csgo, and cube 2 again and again and again and again...Recently, I made my first kernel driver and successfully mapped it with KDMapper in a VM. I'm REALLY trying to learn...not just copy/paste or ask ChatGPT. Really enjoying the process and excited to grow my skills over the years.

Most of the exercises I've been doing have been on FPS games with no anti-cheat or AC disabled. While I've read a ton about various ACs, and am still learning, I've never tried to ACTUALLY bypass one and use a hack.

But, as a passion project and something to work towards, I would like to take my Python bot and recreate it as an Internal Hack with C++ without Weakaura. It's a stretch goal for me and am hoping to get some guidance and questions answered.

Some of my initial questions are:

1) Where can I find info about Warden, what it checks for, etc? - A lot of my searches lead to Overwatch, but I am not sure if Warden has different checks for WoW. Ideally, I'd love to be able to reverse it myself to learn, but that's probably at least a year or more away for me to learn...For now, I'm hoping I can just read up on it to understand more. For example, I'd love to know if I'm at risk for HWID ban or IP Ban while trying out my hacks. I plan to use a trial account, but don't want something to happen to my main account.

2) Is there any source codes available of something similar that I am looking to do? - It doesn't have to be actively working, but it would be helpful to read an example of how someone implemented something like this.

3) Is an internal hack the way to go? - I always hear internal hacks are safer than external. Most of my current hacks I practice with are internal.

Anything else to consider or other advice? This project is out of my comfort zone right now and probably something I have to stop and start as I clearly don't have the skillset yet...But it's motivating for me to have a project like this for me to shoot for.

Thanks

[joshi205]

I would advise to not care about warden for now, and probably would stay away from retail until you get comfortable in the overall wow client. Current Retail is obfuscated and needs a dumper to be statically analyzed and hard to live debug because of anti debug tech.
But thats not a problem, there are so many versions to choose from that you can either emulate at home or play on private servers with either no or much less ac than current retail.

Obviously over the years things changed here and there in the client, but the overall architecture, how lua works, the objmgr, cgunit etc havent really had a complete rework, so theres lots to learn from these older versions.
Every now and then a dbg build gets released by accident, if you can find a old version of one (should find one here in the forums, but you need to go the memory editing section) thats a gold mine even for current retail because you can infer so much from just looking at call graphs.

Look up old projects, theres repos everywhere that have bots for old versions that can teach you a lot for wow.
https://drewkestell.us/Article/6/Chapter/1 is a bit dated, and using c#, but that is a pretty good read about a few topics regarding wow too.

General Advice: searching this forum will give you plenty of ressources, dont be afraid to ask if something isn't clear, but be prepared to put the work in yourself. if you do, most people are happy to help

Good Luck, its a big undertaking for sure, but as you said, its very satisfying and enjoyable.

[baseballdude02]

Much appreciated! Thanks for the response and guidance. I definitely want to be able to play around and debug as I go on a private server, so I'm going to set one up to do some testing. I know I'll be spending days probably trying to get stuff to work as a learn so probably easiest for me to have my own server to do all my testing....which is also nice because I dont want to worry about AC as i'm learning the game.

Thanks for sharing the article, i started reading some of the posts and think it's going to help trying to wrap my head around writing codes for an MMO vs the FPS games I'm used to working on. Thanks for the help!

[HaileyWatson]

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