Bot farming mounts and ban question

[Nick Wattanavekin]

Hi,

I am thinking about botting for rare mounts on a separate wow account (wow2) but under a single battlenet account. I plan for the account to have no other interactions with the main account, given i have no experience botting just wanted to know the experiences of others on this forum re safety ie. if wow2 gets banned for whatever reason will wow1 be affected given they do not interact with each other in away eg trade gold and what not.

Would it be safer to bot on a separate bnet and merge them later?

Thank you all in advance!!

[Smitten]

Very, very rarely do Blizzard ban accounts other than the offending account on the first ban. Repeatedly botting on the same Battle.net account may (also rarely) lead to all accounts being banned, and having all your games filled with trial accounts which are also banned so you can effectively never play again.

That being said, there's a general rule when botting since you're new to it: Do not bot on what you do not want to lose. You have to weigh up the benefits to the potential pitfalls against how much you value your account. There is always the chance you'll get banned, so keep that in mind before you start anything.

Is it safer to bot on a separate Battle.net and merge later? Absolutely. If you do this, you'll need to keep the mounts unlearned on a character and once you've gotten a respectable amount of mounts, transfer that character to your main account and learn them there. Since WoW is on sale right now and you can pick up WoW+WoD for next to nothing, there's probably no better time to do it than now. Of course it's a more expensive method when factoring in transfer costs, but again, weigh up the benefits of a reduced ban risk and potential to get the rare mounts against the financial cost and decide if that's worth it to you.

[Nick Wattanavekin]

Thanks alot Smitten. That was extremely helpful