IAMABOT
Posted April 16th, 2008 by w0wb0t001
Hi there. I am a bot. Last night, as I slept in my bed, an alt of mine was
busily queuing up and running
There were “casual exploits” that I would engage in. Things that were obvious loopholes in the game, but didn’t really feel like exploits, the same way downloading ripped music doesn’t really feel the same as walking into a store in the mall and stuffing a CD down your pants. It doesn’t feel like much of anything, actually. It feels kinda like how breathing does at this point; you just do it.
lul
I did Molten Core. It was fun then.
But when Raiding stopped its thrill, PvP was the chick that always put out. Alway there for a goodtime.
Then that chick had friends that would taunt you for trying. Taunt your pve gear with their craptastic "icanq" that worked just as well in pve.
It's now I realize just how damn badly I screwed up thinking "pve" was gonna be fun.
Lawl....does Glider still work? My old fishbot caught me a 3-day ban, but I totally feel your pain with where it's gone. Lemme know if Glider still works witht he autoscan catching it....might need to try it
They popped a bunch for gliding way back when, fortunately I wasnt one of them. If it still works id gamble with it again.
130k for my new warrior before season 4 and the usual 90kish for my pally, wouldnt bother me to glide that out.
Why would you buy previous tier gear? Just grind honor for the off pieces and get some friends to toss you into an 1900+ 3v3 squad. Youd have your 5k banked by s4, 2 pieces of pve gear wont burn you.
Main problem with honour gear is, you spend days and days grinding a bit, and then its just meh when you get it, with drops and such you have no control over it, so it feels that much nicer.
Its a pity blizzard decided to base the first step in pvp on an old system that is about as much fun as banging your cock in a car door.
I wrote my own auto-it script for fishing way back in the day. Used to sit in the barrens cranking out mad deviate fish. I did my first reroll about 6 months after launch, and by level 30 the character already had about 800g from deviate selling. I'd probably only bot twice a week too. Didn't want too many reports going into the GMs about me.
Had one stop in and chat with me once... Luckily I was just getting going and had stopped by the comp to spread my first stack around -- 20x1deep stacks of deviates = 20x20deep stacks in the morning :) -- right when the GM dropped me a tell to see if I was AFK.
Finally caught a 3 day ban though for leaving it up on the 4th of July in 05, when I went drinking and tubing on the river... Poor GM having to work the summer holiday. And then I stopped using it altogether and never wrote another one for anything else either. No point to lose an account just for a lil easy gold. Then Warden came out after that, and I don't think there's any way I'd risk a lvl 70 account with both boxes purchased to run a bot. Even a shittily geared 70 is worth like 200 bucks to an account buy/sell company. If the game is so boring that I can't play it... I just don't play it, and then sell my account to some chump so I can use it to buy my next game :)
the point being though, that you CAN'T play arena without a full starter set of gear.
you'll get shit on over and over by people in full s3, and there will. never. be. anything. you. can. do. about. it.
after 3-5 months of losing every game and rebuying 1500 ranked 5v5 rosters over and over, you might have enough gear to actually stand a chance to live long enough to kill someone. This is even assuming you find 4 other jackasses that hate themselves enough to join you on your journey. Stuff like the vindicators set requires AVing over and over as well, which (as described above) is about as fun as slamming your dick in a car door repeatedly.
so the tournament realm gets free geared level 70s, but we can't have them on live? i can't run arena with my friends unless we ALL shell out 20 bucks to play on some random server located on the moon? wtf is that?
Fortunately, Glider is awesome. Warden doesn't really even come close to busting you, and 100% of bans are due to User-error. You know the ones. Elemental Plateau, smacking down the mobs that you have banished cos they shit you up the wall stealing ur kills before a dot ticks and then ignoring your abusive whispers. As if it isn't obvious. The majority of even marginally smart gliders out there are pretty much impervious to anything but a trained eye. Also, IAMABOT get some better BG profiles. Decent ones provide a contingency if you fall of the bridge on D in AV, or into the water on WSG etc. AND if you set it to actually attack you don't look like a tard. My lock, who isn't exactly that well geared gets around 10-15 kills per AV. and even won a EOTS once. Anyway, for those who want something that will automate all the bullshit slavery blizz expect. Glider is far worth your money. Oh btw, just sold a S1 warrior with a couple of crafted tanking epics for $500.
In short, glider is better than ever.
WSG has water?
Ain't thar a moonwell or fountain up on the Ally side by the GY? Lul Iso, I lol'd
Thanks for the info on Glider....may have to activate this here free play card and test it out; don't want to risk my 70's just yet. I still find some enjoyment in the WoW, but let's face it, the Grindfest can suck a goat's cock
Since the last patch there are welfare PVP blues available from the Sha'tar, Lower city, Caverns of time, Cenarion Expedition and Thrallmaar/Honor Hold. They're geared towards PVP and probably meant for people with your specific problem. I'm glad that you now have time to be with your wife (Much more important than WoW. [Unless she's ugly]) but by the time a game gets so boring and repetetive that you need to pay for it to play itself. You think maybe it's time for a new game?
"My lock, who isn't exactly that well geared gets around 10-15 kills per AV. and even won a EOTS once"
I don't know if there's better proof out there that locks are EZ mode bullshit than someone just saying their bot is winning BGs with one.
a theme of the comments, here and where this article was linked on tobold's blog, seems to be "if you need bots to play the game for you, play a new game".
the point i think our botting friend is trying to make is that there IS a fun aspect of WoW, unfortunately it's buried under 800 pounds of crap. obviously, this makes sense from blizzard's perspective. why sell bottled milk, when you can just rent out a cow, and make people line up for the hassle of milking it themselves? it doesn't make any sense, but there's a line wrapped around the block.
in order to enjoy the fun parts of the game (be they competing in arena or running a raid), you need to either already have farmed up good enough pvp gear to last 30 seconds, or farm pot mats and repair gold during "off time". I think it's pretty well summed up above:
Eventually I’ll have the honor needed to purchase enough resilience gear to
actually stand a chance in the 1500s bracket of arena, and then I’ll need to
actually play this toon again. That’s fine! That’s all I wanted in the first
place!
Imagine a game like Super Mario Galaxy. It's fun! You run and jump and swim! Whee!
Now imagine that for every hour of the fun part, you needed to spend 4 hours just sitting on the couch swirling the wiimote around in a circle. No challenge involved, no skill required.. just big sweeping circles until your arm fell off. Would people who tied the wiimote to the ceiling fan be botting? why, yes, they would. but would you judge them harshly for it? you wouldn't need to, actually, because no one would buy the game in the first place. it would recieve dismal scores across the board for trash gamelay concepts, but that's eventually what happens in wow after you finish leveling.
there is fun to be found in running dungeons. there is fun to be found (sometimes) in close BG matches. but the LEVEL OF REPETITION required for progression borders on ridiculous. not even progression, just maintaining equilibrium. If i only logged in to run 25 mans, i would be very broke, very fast. flasks don't spawn in my bags magically.
to have a 'bot' take care of the "kill 800 spiders for 45 netherweb" doesn't sound too bad after all...
Speaking of repetition, I can't believe Blizzard hasn't updated any of the BG maps.
Switch Gulch CTF to some new map with CTF. Switch capture and hold in AB to some new map with the same game mechanic. Fuck. What would it take their level designers... all of 2 weeks to design and code a new map with the exact same mechanics for the game laid over the top? Why can't they just create a LITTLE diversity in the end game of WoW? It wouldn't be that fucking hard. Especially on a 6mil subs x $15 budget EVERY FUCKING MONTH. Ever since TBC, it's not like the factions associated with those BGs matter anymore, and even then, you can still use the exact same factions, just put them in a new map so it's not so fricken stale.
you disgust me, sir.
MMOGlider is even more sophisticated now than ever before. Spend the extra few bucks and get elite. There is a new pathing system that reads the environment and stops you from doing the bumping into things and backing up 5 feet and turning thing, although if you create you profiles correctly that shouldn't happen. The paths it takes are random but contained in the area you choose. For example ogres in Duskwood. I watched my toon take down all the mobs outside the cave and then wander inside down each tunnel and navigate the whole thing on its own - not one hiccup. You can program it to pick up quests, vendor, repair, turn in quests, stock up on food / drink, and even post loot to an alt.
The new custom classes you can use with elite also instigate pvp and use mounts.
Whilst in the OP the users toon just dies, these more sophisticated extras make the whole experience more natural. It still has limitations of course it cant adapt totally to every situation completely but it does contribute to the effort. My bot often comes close to the top of the BG boards on its own, but then its SS rogue.
I believe that the OP is exactly where i was when i started BG botting. Blizzard have systematically nerfed the fun out of its own game. They have made it easier for the casual gamer and missed opportunities to make the game more dynamic. The instances are boring, the mobs do the same thing at the same time every encounter. As long as you can read how to take down Illidan, you can take him down, the battle is not dynamic nor is it require you to adapt, its 5 phases, in the same order, every time. It only requires the gear your toon wears to be up to the job and know how the battle goes.
As for the general grind to 70, if Blizzard didn't base its game so much on "grind 20 of these mobs, then 20 of those mobs" it would be better or at least make the mobs do different things or make it more of an adventure.
Battle grounds are also boringly repetitive and I'm only botting them to get the res gear so I can arena, as arena is the one last thing any worth playing in the game, at least those battles are dynamic and you need to adapt.
So for all you antibotters, whilst there is the commercial aspect of gold sellers to contend with, if blizz gave half a toss about their game, it would be more fluid, but because they've made it so mind numbingly easy that even a bot can do it, bots do do it.
~GKA
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