Ok, I have decided to finally share my experience with the bots.
To start off,
AimSharp STILL hasn't answered my email, so I decided against trying it.
Next we have
MaxDPS Assistant.
As a budget option, it is very good. Nothing overly complex, but for the price, it is a very big ROI. It is mostly optimized for PvE which is what I play primarily. I didn't use it for that long, but if you're tight on budget, then I can definitely recommend it.
Lastly, I got a
GGLoader.
While the price is nothing to scoff at, especially that you will most likely have to pay for 3rd party profiles, I do think it is worth its buck.
Although to be fair, I cannot say that with confidence as instead of trying it for a month, I got smooth-talked into buying a Lifetime for a discounted price
Overall, the support has been amazing. Even if I had some obscure questions they actually answered (and pretty quickly at that).
As to the rotations.
I don't play Retail, so I cannot comment on any of those.
For Cataclysm, the only free rotations are Szkalownik's Death Knight, which I haven't tested.
As for the paid options, there is only Easy, who currently supports 7 classes. I have tested two of them.
For the Paladin:
- Holy works pretty good, with custom calculations for the healing engine doing fine work. It is also
VERY customizable. I don't really play PvP but from the few RBG I did, it worked fine.
- Protection also seemed solid, but most of my experience was running dungeons as off-spec, so I cannot comment raid-wise, nor PvP-wise.
For the Death Knight:
- Frost worked very well, although I used the "Masterfrost" rotations, which the profile supports. It also did fine in PvP, but the again, I don't really play that.
- Blood worked very good as well. Both in dungeons and raids. Not much I can really think of.
Overall, I find the Easy's rotations to be worth their money.
Now to Classic.
For Classic (or SoD in my case) the only rotations available are the free rotations from Griph.
I cannot comment, with any confidence, as to their quality. None of the rotations there were for classes I play. And as Griph and Duzti don't charge any money for it, the updates are not very fast or consistent (although they do help you, if you have problems installing it)
However, now we arrive at the final, and important, aspect of GGL. The profile creation.
With @
's tutorial video series being taken down, the documentation is lacking, however, there still is some. With a bit of time, it is not that difficult to start making your own profiles.
And that is where GGL truly shines.
The truth is, that even if you get an already made profile, you might not be able to utilize it fully, as you need time to get accustomed to it. Where as if you actually make it yourself, you fully understand how it works, and if something is not working out for you, you can just fine tune it. GGL is a foundation that will allow you to do whatever you want.
That, is the true strength of GGL.
So in all honesty, I can definitely recommend GGL.
To sum it up:
If you're a
Cataclysm player, whether more casual or hardcore, I would definitely recommend GGL and Easy's rotations.
If you're a
Classic player, then unless you're a hardcore player who actually wants to create their own rotations, I wouldn't recommend GGL. At least not until there's a dev who will make paid rotations and focus his efforts on working on them.
For
Classic, I would recommend MaxDPS Assistant. The rotations for Classic are less complicated than for the later expansions, so MaxDPS will perform fine, while also being cheap.