Farming gear for a bot

[eski2]

I was having fun with my bot, now i can equip it, but I was unsure how to select the right zones and mobs for gear. when i played live, it was easy to hunt in the bazaar for the exact gear you needed because you have the filters for class/race/level/etc, but I'm not aware of any way (without paying) to gear up bots as opposed to players, who can do quests and so on.

For one thing, i tried giving a charm item that was droppable to a bot, but it just seemed to eat it and nothing showed up in the bot inventory list. I haven't come across an attunable item dropped from a mob on the original peq db to test so i'm not sure if a bot can use those either. A shame as it would be nice if defiant gear dropped although I suppose it is rather overpowered.

How do other people do it, assuming they bother? Do they just play on servers where they can buy epics etc and hand them to their bots, or where uber gear drops readily because the server devs tweak the db? Do they make the gear?