Others too afraid to use bots?

[phorentez]

Hello team,

There is absolutly no meaning to this thread other than sharing oppinions on using bots on our beloved accounts we don't wanna lose.

I have been playing since mid vanilla only with a couple of breaks but more or less played every expansion. My account is very Is very valuable to me and i do not want to lose it. I have a bit more than +550 days played across all chars.

I am achievement grinder and i find myself at 22k at the moment, however some very very timeconsuming achievements like fishing and petbattles are tearing me apart (So FUCKING boring) and i cba to do them.

For a long time i've been thinking about botting again, i used to do it back in vanilla with Glider and i used another bot during TBC. However i am waaaay to scared to use it now since the account is so valuable to me and i do not wanna loose it.

Does any of you share this feeling? And do you say 'fuck it' and bot anyway?

- Phorentez

[KuRIoS]

Can't do the time, don't do the crime

[Razzue]

Dont use an account you can't afford to lose x'D

Plus, with the changes you only need gametime to access 1-110 so *shrug*
Cheaper bots yo

[HunterHero]

It ain't worth botting unless it's suicide botting. Some people have made their own bots recently for fishing etc such as Sychotix. Maybe you could learn it yourself. But yeah if you can't afford losing your account then don't do it.

[egg1337lol]

No its very unsafe to bot these days. Ive botted since vanilla and ive been banned twice and its been in late legion.

[Scumstation]

Yep - there was always a risk but now it's borderline guaranteed you'll get banned.

[Razzue]

Yep - there was always a risk but now it's borderline guaranteed you'll get banned.

Yes and no.
Depends on if you get into a private bot community, and how good that community is. (Will NOT be naming the one I use, through DM nor on here)
I made it the last 2.5 months of legion+3 weeks of BfA before I got a ban :P

[phorentez]

Personally i got banned 3 times, once during vanilla and twice in TBC, haven't really been botting since. I am too afraid to do it now

[Jaladhjin]

My account is very Is very valuable to me and i do not want to lose it.

However i am waaaay to scared to use it now since the account is so valuable to me and i do not wanna loose it.

I think you have your answer :-D

It's definitely not worth the risk now on any account of value.

[Volacovic]

I havent botted since wotlk so im abit outdated on recent events. What has changed in blizzard's bot detection to make bans from botting so much more frequent theese days?

[Scumstation]

I made it the last 2.5 months of legion+3 weeks of BfA before I got a ban :P

you still got banned doe

[Razzue]

you still got banned doe

Truth. But that's because the bot I used had a detection vector, which of course "may" happen over time, tis but part of being a botter
But to the point, is that not all bots are an "instaban" ,nor a gaurentee that you will be smacked down, depends on the abilities of the dev, and ofc blizzards own devs

I havent botted since wotlk so im abit outdated on recent events. What has changed in blizzard's bot detection to make bans from botting so much more frequent theese days?

Blizz has updated warden Immensely since then :P
It's pretty much wiped out all the "big name" public bots from last Xpac (Wrobot, NoobBot, HonorBuddy)

But who knows what'll surface this expac

[Scumstation]

In todays world, there is absolutely no reason to bot - if you're really that desperate for gold, buy a WoW Token, if you want a 110 character, buy BFA and get the instant boost. Blizzard has effectively ruled out any reason to do it a non-legitimate way. If you do go that route then expect to get the ban hammer and pay for your concequences.

[Razzue]

In todays world, there is absolutely no reason to bot - if you're really that desperate for gold, buy a WoW Token, if you want a 110 character, buy BFA and get the instant boost. Blizzard has effectively ruled out any reason to do it a non-legitimate way. If you do go that route then expect to get the ban hammer and pay for your concequences.

You sure about that? People spend stupid amounts of irl money on 3rd party gold sites still. The profit a 20-40 bot rig can pull in a month (assuming of course that the bot you use remains undetected for that month) is still good enough for me to keep Botting

[phorentez]

In todays world, there is absolutely no reason to bot - if you're really that desperate for gold, buy a WoW Token, if you want a 110 character, buy BFA and get the instant boost. Blizzard has effectively ruled out any reason to do it a non-legitimate way. If you do go that route then expect to get the ban hammer and pay for your concequences.

It was not ment on gold, it was ment on Achievements. Some of the very very grindy achievements are the most boring ones. Winning 1000 pet battles... ResidentSleeper. Acheology, fishing. There is maybe 500+ achievement points to gather in either of these professions. As you say, gold is not an issue, neither is leveling, thats not considered a grind in my book. Only the achievements, like +500 hours commited.