Avoid Detection with Gatherbuddy

With any bot there is always the chance of being banned. There are a variety of things that will factor into this. Not only running the bot on your PC, but how it acts in the game, and how you use it. I'll use this post to share some tips for safe botting with Gatherbuddy. If you follow these suggestions, it will greatly reduce the risk of botting.

Firstly, there is always the danger of warden detecting your botting program. With mainstream bots this becomes more of a problem as they are bigger targets for blizzard. Gatherbuddy has it's own anti-warden code to lower this risk. Generally, many bans occur not from software detection but from a GM or player observing you in game.

Gatherbuddy makes an attempt to minimize the risk of player detection while botting by avoiding players at nodes it would normally gather. It also has the big advantage that most players do not suspect players on flying mounts to be botters. Gatherbuddy is a new kind of bot on the market, and most people do not know of it.

The main risk as a Gatherbuddy user comes from your selling of farmed materials. Blizzard tracks a certain quantity of gold and material movement, and if you transfer all your materials off to another account without selling any, or flood the AH daily with thousands of ore, gems, herbs and eternals, they'll catch on at some point. For that reason I've created some guidelines to keep your accounts safe.

Gatherbuddy Tips:

* Bot for 5-8 hours per day - Don't leave your account farming all night. Also, if it convenient, log your character off for an hour halfway thru your farming.
* Don't sell off all your farmed materials at once - Sell 10-12 stacks of a type of ore, or herbs at a time. If you flood the auction house each day, somebody will catch on.
* On the gatherbuddy "Get" tab, uncheck "Ninja Nodes". This will prevent you from taking nodes from other players, which could appear suspicious
* make a "Whispers" chat tab in game. This way, if you're away from your PC you can see whether anybody murmured you when you get back.
* Take a secondary profession. If you are a herbalist, take Inscription or Alchemy. A miner? Take Jewelcrafting, for example. Turn some of your raw materials into other items and sell them.
* Make your own profiles. You never know if somebody on the same server as you could be using the default gatherbuddy farming profiles. If you would like to be additional safe, download a user made profile from the forums or make your own!

Overall, botting with gatherbuddy is sort of safe, it is the economy area where you are most certain to be caught. Check the official gatherbuddy forums for great tips, tricks, guides, and of course, profiles!.