PSA: Buy herbs/ores NOW!

[Hardbunny]

As some may have noticed honorbuddy is now not safe to use. Blizzard has proven that they can detect honorbuddy by banning botters on NON-RAF accounts using private profiles botting as little as 5 hours a day.

Many thinks it has something to do with CTM (Click To Move) to midair locations. This is not possible for normal players as you can only click on environment/landscape. So a good candidate to why people get detected

So to the guide.

1. Buy all herbs/ores you can find relatively cheap on your server

2. Use herbs/ores to make glyphs gems flasks, anything that has a nice profit on your server

3. Wait as long as you dare before honorbuddy finds a way around this detection,

4. Post glyphs/gems/flasks

5. Profit.



The guide is very obvious, but the point of this post is: Buy materials that bots used to farm.

[Ravnie]

Pretty common knowledge, but thanks though :-)

[piehead]

Since when has honorbuddy been detected? As far as I remember it was only player reports.

[TommyT]

Just because blizzard did a mass ban wave on suspected and obvious botters does not mean the bot is detectable
ive been running 4 bots constantly for months and not of them have been touched

[piehead]

Just because blizzard did a mass ban wave on suspected and obvious botters does not mean the bot is detectable
ive been running 4 bots constantly for months and not of them have been touched

Yeah, that's what I thought.

[peterfried]

Prices of herbs/ore have already skyrocket-ed in many servers cause of the bans though. The bot seems to be as detectable as always, it's just blizz decided to end this and took action against the obvious bots. Mine are fine too for the moment.

[Hardbunny]

Well, if you read around on the ban-report forums at the buddy forum you will see that there is something out of the ordinary. People getting banned after 2 hours non-raf accounts. Lots of speculations.

Take this however you want, I'm very sure prices will go up myself

At least on my server the prices have already started to increase.

[TommyT]

Spikes in bans happen every so often
if the bot was detected how come my uldum bot on SoR acc thats been running for 13 weeks 24/7 on a high pop server hasnt been banned

[ilathane]

Since when has honorbuddy been detected? As far as I remember it was only player reports.

That's what I was hearing, but that is nice confirmation.

[JomGod]

Bot isn't detected, its just player reports. Basically bliss is just waiting to get a lot of reports then banning all in waves.

[Futile570]

Spikes in bans happen every so often
if the bot was detected how come my uldum bot on SoR acc thats been running for 13 weeks 24/7 on a high pop server hasnt been banned

Because you have not broken any mirrors or stepped on any cracks. That's ridiculous if what you're saying is true.

[Thele]

nice finding

[ArBar]

I wouldn't recommend this, infact I think the opposite is true. Wait to buy herbs till next week when 5.3 is live. They are making leveling mining/herbing demonstrably easier. You can mine high level herbs and ores from the get go now, so I expect there to be more miners undercutting each other come next week.

[piehead]

I wouldn't recommend this, infact I think the opposite is true. Wait to buy herbs till next week when 5.3 is live. They are making leveling mining/herbing demonstrably easier. You can mine high level herbs and ores from the get go now, so I expect there to be more miners undercutting each other come next week.

This sounds like it could be pretty accurate.

[moscato]

Spikes in bans happen every so often
if the bot was detected how come my uldum bot on SoR acc thats been running for 13 weeks 24/7 on a high pop server hasnt been banned

because they are mostly targetting just those who are botting in pandaria.

HB itself is not being detected, I'll give you that.
It's rather Gatherbuddy2's behaviour that is detectable. Not sure if it's the CTM or hitting the same exact hotspot more than once or twice a day. You can say all you want, but it's true. Bossland's developers are working to find a solution to this, so that it will be less likely to get banned as it is now.