Thursday, April 24, 2008

World of Warcraft | Cheats and Exploits

I've made several posts on this blog of various cheats and exploits for World of Warcraft and Lotro. Although I can admit that doing these kinds of cheats takes away from the fun of the game initially, I see no problem with doing them after you have gone over the content a dozen times. The most logical solution to being bored in a game would be to just quit. But what if you still want to hack away at the game and push it's limits? Well that's where cheating and exploiting come into play.
Sure its not for everybody, but for some people it's what they do. I want to post some links to any World of Warcraft cheaters out there for the best information sources when you're trying to game the system.

  • Wowhead - This is the best item database out for World of War Craft right now (The Armory would be better, but it's slow and is down half the time). If you need to find quest, item, or mob information, this is the place to go.
  • mmoglider.com - If you've been reading this blog then you know about this site. While they are currently in a legal battle with Blizzard I don't know what there long term future looks like, but they have the best bot on the planet.
  • mmowned - this site has a good forum for checking out any cheats or exploits that you come across. Definitely worth taking a look at.
There you go, check them out, and don't forget to read my World of Warcraft Honor Bot guide posted on this blog for detailed information.

World of Warcraft Honor Bot | lotro bot?

After having such success with the world of warcraft bot, I began to look around to see if there was a Lord of the Rings Online bot. The first thing I came across was this lotro bot but you had to sign up for the site first to get any more information. I then made my way over to a site called MMOViper which had a nice video up for a lotro bot. It looks promising but I dont have any firsthand experience with it.
If someone has used the program or has any reviews of the product they should drop a comment.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

World of Warcraft Honor Bot | MMOglider goes open source

Mercury posted over on the mmoglider forums that there World of Warcraft honor bot is now open source! You will still have to pay to use mmoglider (to connect to there database and whatnot) but you can now edit and compile the bot to see if you can make it any better.
This is good news if you want to make your 'own' World of War Craft bot, or you can monkey with it to see if you can get something to work for the upcoming Age of Conan. Who knows, but check it out.

World of Warcraft Honor Bot Guide

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

World of Warcraft Honor Bot | Using Wowhead for faster botting

If you decide to use the World of Warcraft Honor Bot and it's guide, you will find yourself being at an advantage if you use Wowhead, or some other similar item database, to decrease the amount of time it takes you to bot while leveling.
For those not familiar with Wowhead I'll give a quick primer. Wowhead is the premier World of War craft database for finding zone, item and character information. Wowhead is very fast, much faster then it's main competitor which is Blizzards
Amory. It is also a very popular database. It is rumored that Affinity Media, the previous parent company of gold selling giant IGE bought Wowhead for 1 million dollars.
The Wowhead database gets information from a plugin that World of Warcraft players install as a UI mod in there World of War craft directory. This mod uploads item, quest, zone and mob information back to Wowhead's database, which then categorizes the information. How this helps your botting is that you can use the database to determine the best zone you can utilize in order to get the most efficient botting level order you can find. If you're a tailor you will want to utilize the wowhead database in order to find the best tailoring path you can use so you will be a level 365 tailor when you turn 70.
All in all, the wowhead database is a must-use companion for any World of Warcraft player.


World of Warcraft Honor Bot Guide

Sunday, April 20, 2008

World of Warcraft Honor Bot | Custom Classes

As I stated in my World of Warcraft Honor Bot guide, you will need to use customer classes in MMOglider in order to fight back, or initiate combat, with other players in PvP. An in order to use custom classes you need to subscribe to Glider Elite to be able to add custom classes.
To subscribe to Glider Elite is only $5 per month so it is well worth the cost. You use PayPal to pay for the service and you cancel the service through them as well.
As I also stated in the World of Warcraft Honor Bot guide, you can find a list of custom classes to use in the MMOglider forums. What I'd like to do is present a few of my recommendations.
  • Warlocks - I recommend using Picklock. It is the most stable custom class for Warlocks out there and is very modifiable.
  • Shamans - oobershaman. The guy that makes oobershaman makes a list of 'oober'-type custom classes for all of the World of Warcraft classes. Highly recommended
  • Warriors - Parrior. This is a good custom class but, like all custom classes, it has its bugs. Just set it up for basic combat and it works like a champ
Once you purchase MMOglider you will have access to there forums which has many guides on setting up the bot for custom classes. You will find lists and input of all the class templates available. As far as cheats and exploits go, mmoglider is he best bang for the buck in automating World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft Honor Bot Guide

Thursday, April 17, 2008

World of Warcraft Honor Bot | Confessions of a Botter

*September Update*
Since mmoglider has been offline for a few months now (with little chance of its return), I have been getting asked if there are any bot alternatives out there. The answer is not really. The other bots I have tested have maybe a fraction of the abilities of mmo glider, and none are nearly as user friendly. My advice if you want to start a new character is to create a second account using Blizzards 'Recruit-a-Friend' (RAF) system, grab Joana's guide and level 2 new characters at a time with RAF's triple experience. You'll get to 60 much faster then if you used a bot. After that, well, we're all still working on it.
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I have been playing World of Warcraft since it was in late beta and I have played 3 characters to the level 60 level cap and a couple to the level 70 cap. I have played most of my characters to at least level 40 before I got burnt out on leveling them. I started to
World of Warcraft honor bot in June 2006 using WoWGlider (which has since been renamed mmoglider) to see if I could l get my 36 Shaman to the end cap any quicker. The bot didn’t level any quicker then I could play it, but since I could bot while I was at work it made a big difference. I had a bit of a learning curve to overcome at the start, especially with creating my own profiles for each class, but wow was it worth it. But is it worth it for everyone? No. If you just started playing the game, or are still leveling your first characters, it would be pointless to bot since you’re missing out on playing one of the best games ever made. Actually leveling your character, learning its traits, gaining levels and items gives you a great sense of personal satisfaction while playing the game; at least for the first five times you do it.
After you’ve made quite a few toons, or at least got one or two to max level, leveling another can start to feel like a job. Well, that’s were the bot comes in. I am far from the fastest botter in the world as there are professional botters out there that do it for a living at a breakneck pace, but by the time The Burning Crusade came out I was able to level a character from 1 to 60 in two weeks. Post TBC I can bot from 1 to 70 in about 3.5 weeks so as you can see the bot is a great power leveling technique. Sure, you could do it a lot quicker by actually playing, but that’s not the point of the bot. The point is to let the program do the leveling for you.
So is it safe? I’ve been banned three times, so no one can say it’s completely safe at all. That statement right there will scare away most people from ever trying to use the World of Warcraft bot. I’m not concerned with that because it doesn’t tell the whole story. I have had thirteen accounts since the game went live and I have made over $2000 botting casually. I know that’s not a huge amount of cash but botting for money was not my main goal; botting for the fun of it was. Incidentally, professional botters can make thousands of dollars per month if they know what they’re doing. Is it cheating? Yes. Is it against the spirit of the game? Probably. Am I hurting others by doing it? No. I don’t bot in quest areas and I don’t block content from live players. I also don’t bot with the intention of gold farming. I am well aware that not every botter approaches the game the same way I do, and I can understand why people like to turn in botters, but I don’t have any regrets in the past 2 years I have been doing it.
So the question is, would you use the World of Warcraft Honor bot? That’s your decision. To me it’s just a game, so I don’t worry about the endless ethical questions brought up by people concerned over the issue. Yes, it’s against Blizzards EULA and I know full well the consequences if I get caught. But it’s what I do for a hobby. I like to see what the bot can accomplish and how fast I can power level characters. If you don’t mind taking the risk, the bot can be well worth the rewards.


World of Warcraft Honor Bot Guide

World of Warcraft Honor Bot - Alterac Valley

When you decide you are going to honor bot in World of Warcraft, I think it's best to start with a road map of exactly what you want to accomplish. For example, do you have really sub-par gear and wish to get yourself completely set in PvP purples? If so, plan on spending about 2 weeks farming honor for 16 to 20 hours per day.
Now I know that sounds like a lot, but if you think about it how long would it take you to get 12 or 13 epic pieces for your character by normal playing? Unless you're in a great guild that's going to keep pushing you through instances you can expect it to take three months at a minimum, more then likely six or more. Of course, the actual time it takes you to farm honor points is different then the amount of time it takes you to farm Marks of Honor.
That brings me to Alterac Valley. If you're sole intent is to just farm for honor points, stick with Alterac Valley at all times. Don't even bother with the other Battlegrounds even if it's there bonus weekend because the queues generally wont load as fast and the honor is only a real boost if your team wins. On any normal day my bots can average 1000 to 1500 honor per hour on the Nightfall Alliance Battlgroup. If I was Horde (who generally win all BG's more often) I could gain even more.


World of Warcraft Honor Bot Guide

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

World of Warcraft Honor Bot Part 2

World of Warcraft Honor Bot Guide Part 2

MMoglider Elite - You will need to subscribe to this service (available from the bot author) in order to honor bot effectively. One of the things this service allows us to do is use custom classes for the bot program. We need to use a custom class because the classes that come with mmoglider do not work for PvP. Now, technically you don't need this to honor grind, but you will bring attention to yourself if all you do is run around and never fight other players, or fight back. Custom classes are installed into a class folder and there are custom classes available for all classes. Some are better then others so you would need to read the forums to get recommendations. Custom classes, use, and installation are covered in great detail on the mmoglider forums.

Spartacus - This is a great program that is updated quite frequently. It’s purpose is two-fold. When you begin honor botting you will place your character near the battle-masters in whatever city you are located. Sparactus (and a component it uses called sspvp, which comes with it) will see what battleground you prefer to go to (which you set up using the program) and put you into queue for that battleground. When you are in the battleground, Spartacus will determine if you are alive or dead, and control mmoglider from there. The mmoglider program runs the pathing, fights, heals, etc based off how you set it up and Spartacus controls the rest. When the battleground has ended, Spartacus re-queues you for the next and starts the process again for as long as you want.

Profiles - Profiles, as I described earlier, controls the pathing of the bot and what it’s going to fight. For the most part you don't have to worry about these. The mmoglider forums has a list of profiles suitable for every battleground, some better then others. It has recently come to my attention that you can also purchase battleground profiles (I never have and I have no idea how good they are) from profilepacks.coms, among other places.

So what should you expect for honor gain if you do this? It will depend on how fast your battleground queues are, but you should expect anywhere from 15,000 to 20,000 per day if you run AV all day and most of the night (much more on AV honor bonus weekends). You get much less running the other battlegrounds, but you can still get around 30 AB, WSG, or EoTS marks per day with ease if you are looking to get battleground marks.

That’s all the components you will need to honor bot. It can seem a little overwhelming at first, but once you get a feel of how it works you will be glad you’re doing it. Like I said there’s a risk you can lose your account, no matter what anyone says, but the odds are small that it will happen and the amount of honor you gain from the world of warcraft honor bot will be enormous.

World of Warcraft Honor Bot Part 1

World of Warcraft Honor Bot Part 1

This guide will tell you everything you need in order to honor bot in world of warcraft. Just to give you a quick background about me, I have been botting in World of Warcraft using mmoglider for the past 2 year and I have to say that as far as cheats or exploits go in World of War Craft, this system is the best. I have botted about 12 characters to the level cap and I have been banned 3 times. Twice I had been banned in a large ‘ban wave’ where Blizzard detected the software and banned several thousand accounts at once, and once I was banned after an investigation due to a report. Please note that there hasn't been a mass-ban on glider accounts since the bot company implemented a ‘safety trigger’ that will kill the program if it detects changes in Blizzards monitoring program. So anyways, that puts my personal odds of a 1-in-4 chance of being banned. That’s the bad news The good news is that I have never been banned while honor botting. I think the reason for this is because as long as your bot is out there fighting and running around it doesn't bring to much attention to itself. This is really evident in Alterac Valley where you have 40 people on your team. With that many people on a team no one is paying much attention to you unless you are a healer (even then you pretty much get left alone).
So what do you need to honor bot in World of Warcraft? As far as cost goes it wont be free, but it’s still pretty cheap for a WoW exploit. You will need to purchase a copy of mmoglider and subscribe to there elite service for the duration you wish to honor bot. That’s it for the paid programs, all the rest are free.

MMOglider purchase $25
MMOglider Elite subscription $5 per month
Sparatacus (honor botting add-on) free (this can be found in the mmoglider forums)
Honor Botting profiles (free, or make your own) (these can be found in the mmoglider forums)

Let’s take a look at these programs individually:
MMOglider - Most wow players have heard of this service as it is currently embroiled in a legal battle with Blizzard. There’s a good reason for that; this program is no joke. It is the most highly developed commercial bot program ever created for an MMO. Yes, it is cheating, and man does it do a good job of it. Even though I have been banned by the program three times it is still one of the best investments I have ever made. They could have charged $150 for this program and I would have bought it knowing how good it works. And no, I am not affiliated with them nor do I make a dime off them personally (although I have made close to two grand using it). When you purchase this program, you get access to the user forums that have a ton of instructions on it’s initial set up and use. This is how the bot basically works. You log into your WoW character then you run the bot executable (or vice-versa, it doesn't matter). After you initially configure the bot for what class you want to use and other variables (which is easily set up with there built-in help files) you load what's called a ‘profile’. The profile simply has a bunch of coordinates that tells the bot where to walk and what to fight if it comes across it. You can the set the bot up to do a bunch of other things if you want, like hearth to town and repair your equipment, buy more food, sell your items, skin, etc. But for the purpose of this article I wont get into any specifics.


World of Warcraft Honor Bot Part 2