Disclaimer: This is no Success Story, this is no complaint. This is merely a sharing of my experience, the goodbye to a way of gaming, and my way of closure with Honorbuddy. I know I haven't posted on these forums at all (I don't think) but I've lingered for a few years now. I started botting back in 200-somethingafter6, when Glider was released. My playing was 90% social, so I botted completely AFK during school and the wee hours of the night. Glider had a good run, but like most, I was hit with the hammer and lost my first main WoW account that I had from the launch of the game until whenever Glider was shut down. I lost a lot that day, but my love for the World of Warcraft was absolute. I kept on keeping on, leveled by hand to 70 for the first time on my Blood Elf Paladin in the Burning Crusade. Fast forward a few years, I enlisted in the US Marine Corps. Being so strapped for time, I turned to Honorbuddy to help me make progress in a game where I could only afford 2-3 hours a week to sit and enjoy. I ran this bot from the launch of Mists, when a RL friend introduced it to me, until January of 2016 without a single ban. 90% of my botting was afk. 90% of my CR usage was Singular. I used the botbases that came with the game. I think that's how they caught me for my first six month ban, from January until July. In July, I ended my active duty in the Marine Corps - Four years came and went too fast, and here I find myself on the greener grass. I came back to my banned account and up until yesterday was still using Honorbuddy. Finally, it came. The Banhammer hit me hard last night when I got off work at 2am and came home to sit and use Enyo/TuanHA's routines to run a Mythic+ on a class I decided to try out. I understand some of us here bot for different reasons, some love the botting process. I became entangled with it myself lately, finally delving in the versatility of programming my own profiles and using HB in ways that I hadn't anticipated it could be. But I guess it wasn't meant to be. However I realize now as I sit and contemplate whether to buy a new license or not, that if I do I'll go ahead and pick a class I enjoy and play it myself from now on. I'll put in the hard work and hours I need to if I want to farm gold or level a character, despite my 10 hour/5 day a week job and new family to take care of. So, from one of the thousand guest lurkers people are complaining about lately, I bid you all adieu, and good luck in your botting endeavors should you choose to keep on keepin' on.
good luck but from my experience you'll be back botting...the game is such a grind, especially after botting that you'll realize you cant do it (manually play(patience)) any more. My first 6 month ban (18 months or so ago) I didn't play for the whole 6 months. It was a great break and broke my wow addiction. Also realized it was all just pixels and I botted for the lot anyway. Now its just a social thing with my mates and accounts are easy to make and to bot. No big losses.
Good luck trying to grind the f*** out that game manually. LOL let's face it WoW sucks without botting. If you quit HB you quit WoW.
My story is similar - took longer for me to realise though - good bye WOW - good bye HB - and good bye Glider - you had a special place in my Heart - but my pockets are sadly not Deep enough for me to keep playing like this. I love WOW, but not without the extra hand HB gives - so over and out Hopefully for the last time! :'(
I dont know how many times i said bye and still came back but honestly im in my 30's now and cant see spending more money on a game thats become such a grind to play that you literally have to do it every day for 20 plus hours a week. I dont have time for that hence the reason for hb. It was a god send and now its over. Gl to yuo all im on to better things.
