2016 Honorbuddy Banwave Number 3

[fightcancer]

Bossland, creaters of the popular WoW bot Honorbuddy, has just confirmed yet another banwave, making this ban wave the second one this month, the third in 2016 and at least the fifth one in two years.
[Official] Banwave 22-11-2016 Discussion

The previous 4 banwaves were May 13, 2015, Dec. 16, 2015, May 19, 2016, and Nov. 9, 2016.

As usual, the first punishment from a Blizzard banwave usually results in a 6-month suspension, while the second results in a suspension for 18 months. I've read that the third punishment is a permanent ban, but since it hasn't even been 24 months since the first banwave above, few people can speak to this policy from experience. Further, and AFAIK, the suspension only takes into account the previous suspension on a specific account, and not on the entire Battle.net account which can have up to 8 separate accounts.

It is unknown whether this banwave affects multiple third-party software users, or just Honorbuddy. (The Nov. 9, 2016 banwave affected users of other prohibited software, and not just Honorbuddy users.)

[Hapiguy]

Actually, it's entirely possible to get a permaban on the first offense...
It's happened to me on no less than 4-5 accounts now.

[TommyT]

Pretty much simple answer is stop using honorbuddy lol

[JoeThePlumber]

LOL wow that didn't take long at all the Banwaves are now closer together! Blizzard hitting them hard, well lucky there is a black friday sale ,)

[fightcancer]

Actually, it's entirely possible to get a permaban on the first offense...
It's happened to me on no less than 4-5 accounts now.

Definitely possible. OP says "usually."

Were you selling gold, or might a reasonable and prudent person believe that you were selling gold? I've read that scenarios like that are often the ones awarded a first-time permaban. Idk though...

[xio8up]

i hope they have banwaves every week. I love making gold off the auction house.