I wish I started botting earlier haha, just started and its fun being able to get the stats without having to get bored by actually training them, but shit did you have the defense thing on when you botted? Cause that must have really sucked :L
My best decision was to bot runecrafting for about 1 month or 2 straight and achieve 92 rcing. My stupidest mistake was to continue botting on the same account and getting it perm banned...gf double nats.
Lost a maxed turm pure to a ban while botting hunter and somehow accidentally ended up with 23 defence on a nearly maxed pure while botting dung. Those were not fun days.
When OSRS came out I used my maxed EoC main, maxed pure, maxed turmoil rune pure, and a few others to fish lobsters and lost all of them. That was at least $500