[Poll] Running Multiple Bots on the Same PC and IP

[anon432]

It seems like a lot of people seem to just be doing it the old school way even in 2025, create a bunch of wow .exe files, run them all on your PC and IP address, some route them through proxifier with cheap proxies, but instead of fussing with GPU partitioning in a VM - or trying to find a cloud service provider that can somehow run multiple wow instances at the same time at a stable 20+ fps minimum, they just do it the old-fashioned way.

I haven't seen anyone, in all the forums and threads out there mention how they manage to use separate accounts for all the separate instances...maybe they're just logging in with their e-mail username and passwords on each instance without running multiple battlenet applications.

So for those of you who do this, how has this worked out for you so far, and how do you run your setup (be it the old fashioned way or otherwise)?

Starting with myself, I use the old school method, I just run the wow exe's right on my host pc through a (relatively expensive) static IP residential VPN provider, haven't been banned in several months, granted I use many "human-like" behavior emulating and other security features, and only run for 6-8 hours every 24 hours tops

[tamedbeast]

To be honest, unless you're farming for profit, it's not worth the effort or time. Casual botting involves high risk for a small reward, so it's better to just buy the gold or items you need from gold sellers. It doesn’t matter what methods you use; there’s always a small window that people leave open, which gets them caught. I’m sure Blizzard has several ways to track users, whether it’s through your HWID, browser data, where the accounts were purchased from, if that account has ever been on suspicious IPs, or even through proxies/VPN IPs that are blacklisted. I’m sure there are several other ways as well that I just cant be bothered to mention.

Any professional botter is never going to reveal the methods in which they stay undetected longer; this would be like self-snitching.

[anon432]

Originally Posted by tamedbeast

To be honest, unless you're farming for profit, it's not worth the effort or time. Casual botting involves high risk for a small reward, so it's better to just buy the gold or items you need from gold sellers. It doesn’t matter what methods you use; there’s always a small window that people leave open, which gets them caught. I’m sure Blizzard has several ways to track users, whether it’s through your HWID, browser data, where the accounts were purchased from, if that account has ever been on suspicious IPs, or even through proxies/VPN IPs that are blacklisted. I’m sure there are several other ways as well that I just cant be bothered to mention.

Any professional botter is never going to reveal the methods in which they stay undetected longer; this would be like self-snitching.

This is true for most people. Personally I bot for purely for profit. And they most definitely do have all that information, I just think they don't really care or reserve it for the most extreme offenses. There are so many reports of industrial-scale botting organizations who literally bribe GM's to keep running, and with how few GM's there are, how little they get paid, and how little they seem to care about the game, I don't think most people are going to get HWID banned or have their cookies & browser data tied to blizzard sniffed and cross-referenced just for botting. Being banned is most definitely inevitable however, it's simply a matter of what you can do to prevent it from happening for as long as possible, and how that ties into your ROI.