Have you played without a bot

Hey i was just curious as to whether most of us or not have ever handgrinded and for what length of time and if they think you have a better knowledge of you characters workings with handgrinding over botting.
I personally have handgrinded my char to 52 then got into the botting comunity for me i love to pvp and do trade runs and theiving ect.. but when it come to lvling there seems to be no exitment without the bot i probably would have given up and moved on to a new game i know how wrong of me lol from wachting my friends it appears that those of them that bot the whole way have alot more noob questions like what does this skill do and is it effective ect... i think handgrinding makes a more effective player but experiences differ from person to person whats your opinion.

heyyy well i hand grinded to about 28 then got over it. Sitting there for 5 hours training was soooo damn boring it wasnt funny. But yes your right, you can pick the people that bot cuz they r lvl 7x and asking you about a skill. They r noobs with a high lvl char thanks to botting. There are valuable experiences learned while hand grinding and most of them cant be explained. For people that just jump on and bot, stop it and get out n learn what ur char can really do ^_^

i fingergrind untill lvl 69 :|
then i got bored and used bot:D

well max lvl i handgrind was 39....then i got bored found a cracked bot and lvl till a lvl 79 :D

max lvl i could get to was 24.. i learnt alot about sro though.. made some friends. but when they quit i tjought it was boring as hell, so bot was the answer, i dont play much anymore but it would be nice to have fun on some lvl 60 or summin char, cas whenever i bot it gets SOMETHING wrong with it :)

Hey thanks guys great feedback i am not sure if i could handgrind another char lol it was horrible and long and boring so i make my kids do it lol

the max lvl i did went was 52
then i got my oh-so-wished gap 9, my farm was going to start...
but it SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO boring, i couldn't go any longer on my farm without botting

i handgrinded to lvl 42
but handgrinding bumwhangs for 3 lvls until the next quests was just too much.

yeah one thing is that you learn a lot by yourself by handgrinding but also you don´t bother about disussions that would teach u some. so i guess if you do follow discussions about builds, skilling and stuff, you can bot from lvl 1 and know all you need to know.
i learned most of the things i i didn´t find out by myself about sro in my guild/union-chat.
botters are usually not too active there...

so the most important thing of handgrinding is probably to just be there, communicate and participate in the game.
and not be afk and let the bot run.

i hand grinded to lvl36 and brought a full set of 4degree sos geat maxed blues all from hand grinding. then i gave up and started new account on diff server with bot :)

i hand grinded till lv 36 too, just after i got soul spear truth...then i came here, found a bot and botted till lv 42-43 and then i hand grinded again from 43-44--->46, almsot 47 soon too ^^