Those of you who have read some of my previous entry's into this blog probably realize that I am a botter. I've used Glider, Pirox, Mimic (which lost me 3 lv80 botting accounts) and GnomeTools (the best bot I've used for leveling and farming mobs(since Glider) so far).

I recently came across a posting on the Glider forums talking about a new gathering bot that Bossland and Hawker from the Glider forums had been working on. I immediately checked it out and when I watched the video I wanted to cheer. It is basically a standalone Yoink!, for those who never used Yoink! with Glider, it is a flying patrol bot that gathers herbs, mining nodes, and gas clouds. This is great for me since I make a lot of my gold from farming ore in Sholazar Basin, and honestly mining it by hand 8 hours a day is a pain in the ass.

Now this bot has a name. It is called Gatherbuddy, like I said before it'll harvest your nodes for you automatically and comes with some great profiles, though when I used mine I saw a long line of other botters all following the same path as me. I would suggest using your own profile. I have been using it for about a week and a half now and have had no major problems with it. It's smooth, rarely crashes for me, and gathers more nodes than I could by hand. The only con's I've noticed so far has been the combat. It uses macro's kind of like GnomeTools, but doesn't use them as intelligently. It also doesn't have the ability to mail your harvested goods out to your mule character, but there are addon's that can take care of that for you, and Hawker has mentioned that automailing is in the long term horizon plan.

Now I know what you're thinking....this is too good to be true, it must cost an arm and a leg. I am not going to lie to you. It does cost a little bit up front, but you'll more than make up for what you spent from the gold you sell (if that's your thing). Gatherbuddy costs 15 Euro's up front (about 22 USD) and after the first month you pay 5 Euro's a month. It is worth every penny, trust me.

Ok so it's a great harvesting bot, but is it secure? Right now no public bot is undetectable by Warden, they are merely undetected. Hawker and Bossland seem to be committed to making sure that Gatherbuddy stays safe, if Warden's offsets change, they shut down the authentication servers for Gatherbuddy. That's much more than can be said for Mimic.

My opinion? Use GnomeTools (or MMOtotus when it releases) to level your toon to 60-80, then gather away and make some money using Gatherbuddy!