Hello everyone, 1)Were you using Honorbuddy, Gatherbuddy or both on the account? HonorBuddy with Gatherbuddy2 + randomBuddy 2)Which version (and Beta or Release)?: version up to date 3)If so, when was the last time?: this morning 4)What profile were you using?: randomBuddy (automatic random profile for gathering ore and herbs) 5)What combat class were you using? if None Just put Default then the Classname: Blood DK 6)What plugins are you using?: randomBuddy only 7)How many hours per day did you bot for?: Less than 17h with always a pause of 7 hour straight (to simulate a human going to sleep). 8)What honest percentage of time did you supervise your bot? 10% 9)How many auctions per day did you have?: 100-200 on a normal day but yesterday I decided to empty my bank and I raised to 400-500 auctions 10)Did you Use Any Other Bots, Hacks, or Mods? No. 11)Was your account involved in gold selling? No, I do not bot for money 12)EU or US realm? EU 13)Is the banned account a Scroll of Resurrection or an actual paid account? Very old account, bought before BC then I bought every extension when it was released. I was very carefull with my bot, I didn't bot in the might to avoi any weird connection time, always stopped the bot for 7 hours in a row to simulate someone going to sleep. I refused to use public profiles because a friend is using them and there is A LOT of people using them so I thought it would be better to make my own profiles for grinding (profiles made with the zaprecorder2 plugin) and to gather ores & plants I used randomBuddy to avoid other bots. Be careful people !
Today get many person bans on eu? I better stop for today and morning ) But i think 17 hour isnt very carefull I bot just for 4 hour in a row with the same char and bot.. Now for 4 Months and never got a gm whisper or something )
When I say "less than 17 hours" it is to say I never break this limit, yesterday the bot ran 7 hours, the day before 4-6 hours, I played by myself (after restartingt he computer and without honorbuddy started) 2-4 hours more these days.
you've learned a valuable lesson, there is no "reasonably" with GB2. use it more than a couple hours per day TOTAL, get banned guaranteed
Good news ! I sent an email to appeal my permaban, I said something like "I would like to know why and for how long I'll be banned and if the ban is long I would like to be refunded of the pre order of WoD", 5 hours after ... "After looking your case we decided to not ban you forever and changed to a 72h ban" I am already back in the game, thanks Blizz !
What Blizzard hates more than anything is when people affect the Auction house and currency, you can bot 24/7 leveling with a lower risk then posting 1-200 auctions a day. Even farming the herbs is probably less risk if your keeping most of it to yourself.
Can confirm, was perma banned 18th, appealed with exact text that u wrote , now 72h ban. Big rep to you kind sir!
Randombuddy will not save you from any type of ban, it still hit enough nodes per minute for x amount of time to be flagged and auto-banned (no report necessary).