What a farming bot actually automates
A farming bot repeats a loop: travel to a spot, pull and kill the target mobs, loot, decide what to keep, and handle the interruptions — full bags, broken gear, deaths, other players. The loop is simple. Doing it for hours without looking like a program is the hard part.
In WowForeverBot, our leveling and farming bot, you choose the target mobs or area, set loot rules (keep, vendor or mail), and set a schedule. The bot runs the loop inside that schedule and records gold per session. The details live on the WoW Forever farming bot page; this guide is about using it well.
Stop asking "what is the best spot" — start asking "best for what"
The most common farming question is also the worst one. There is no best spot. There is a best spot for your level, your class, your gear, the time of day you play, and how long you can run before someone else shows up and contests it.
A spot that makes 200g/hour at level 40 might make 60g/hour at level 55 because the mobs go gray. A spot that is empty at 3 AM might be packed at 8 PM. The question that actually helps you is: "given where I am and when I play, what earns the most?"
How to evaluate a spot in 10 minutes
Kill mobs for 10 minutes. Count the drops. Multiply by 6. That is your rough hourly rate. It is not exact, but it is close enough to compare against your last spot. People skip this step and then wonder why they switched to a "better" spot and started earning less.
Factor in travel time. A spot that pays 10% more but takes 4 minutes to fly to is usually worse than the spot you are already at, unless you are running a long overnight session where the travel cost is amortized.
Level ranges matter more than you think
Mobs within 5 levels of you drop loot at full rate. Below that, drop rates tank. A lot of farmers waste hours at a spot that was great 6 levels ago and is now paying half what it did. Check your experience bar — if the mobs are green, the gold is dropping too.
The reverse is also true: a spot a few levels above you might pay more per kill but cost more in downtime and repairs. If your bot is drinking after every pull, you are losing gold to the innkeeper.
What a farming bot changes about spot selection
A bot lets you run spots that are boring but profitable — the ones no human would tolerate for 6 hours but that pay consistently. That changes the math: a spot a human would never farm can be your best overnight earner because the bot does not get bored.
WowForeverBot tracks gold per session per spot, so after a few nights you have real data: this spot averaged 180g/hour, that one averaged 120g/hour. You stop guessing and start choosing from numbers.
The scheduler also means you can run the contested high-value spot at 3 AM when nobody is there, and the safe low-value spot during prime time. That is not possible with manual farming.
Mobs that drop versus mobs that mine
There are two kinds of farming: killing mobs for drops and gathering nodes for materials. Killing is more consistent because mobs respawn on a timer and you control the pace. Gathering is bursty because nodes are finite and shared with other players.
A good bot handles both. But if you are choosing one to focus on, killing is more reliable for new players and gathering pays better for people who know the node spawns and have fast movement. For the gathering side, read the WoW Forever gathering bot guide.
The mistake everyone makes at least once
You find a spot that pays 250g/hour. You run it for 14 hours straight. You get reported. You get banned. The spot was never the problem — the schedule was. The best spot in the game is worthless if you run it like a robot.
Randomize your sessions. Take days off. The bot exists to save you time, not to run 24/7. The farmers who last years are the ones who bot like they play: a few hours a day, with breaks. The bot safety guide goes deeper on what raises ban risk.