It's Springtime for King Wrynn and Azeroth...
by Adam Holisky 
Mar 30th 2008 at 4:00PM
The days are getting longer and the nights a tad warmer. Now is a good time to go through and clean your house in the typical spring cleaning exercise. It's a good time to do that in Azeroth, too.For me this entitles a few things with my mounds of inventory items. First, I organize my bank alts. They each are assigned certain categories of items. For instance my first bank alt gets all my gems, raw ore, processed ore, and leather. My second bank alt gets all my enchanting mats, my herbs, reputation items, food, and other tidbits. Now both these alts have been around for about 3 years. In fact, my first bank has a /played time of 10 days at level one.
As a side note having a level one bank alt at ten days really makes me question my sanity...but oh well, on with the article.
Since these toons have been around for so long they already have all the bank slots bought. I wouldn't recommend this however if you're just starting to make bank alts, it's much cheaper to forum your own guild and buy a guild bank page. And even though I've got all those bank slots available (well, not really, they're mostly full), I still have made a guild and guild bank for myself. I principally store things that I'll be using for raiding in there: prepared mats for flasks, primals, various stones, potions (over 400 by my count today). I also keep a good amount of gold tucked away. I use the guild bank as a sort of savings account. Now if I could only manage to do that in real life...
Of course the most important thing about spring cleaning is that after you've got your bank organized, you need to send everything you can across all your alts to your bank. This was the real gem for me, since I cleaned up a metric ton of bag space on my main. Horray!
What other tips and tricks might you have for cleaning your WoW house this spring? And no, I don't mean gkicking that noob (Dam noobs)...or do I? Insert evil laugh here.
Hopefully everyone gets the title reference to The Producers; the 1968 Mel Brooks version, of course.
Filed under: Tips, Tricks, Odds and ends, Alts
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Killian Mar 30th 2008 4:19PM
...it's winter for Thrall and the Horde?
Treos Mar 30th 2008 4:29PM
It's spring time for Hitler, and Germany!
cody Mar 30th 2008 4:55PM
Reinlands a fine land once more!
Don't be stupid be a smartie come and join the Nazi party!
Lol didn't know anyone else watched that.
Platnex Mar 30th 2008 4:44PM
Treos you sir are great that just happens to be my favorite film of all time.
Zoom Mar 30th 2008 4:45PM
The problems with my own guild bank tab are:
1. Others in the guild want to put stuff there (because it's "safe");
2. It's cluttered with endless junk like snowballs and Green Hills of Stranglethorn;
3. I keep saving stuff there for my alts, to save on mailing it to them (some savings!) but it tends to stay there because it's never *quite* enough to bother going on my alt to claim it.
Smee Mar 30th 2008 4:53PM
:( It is autumn here in aus...
Zghuk Mar 30th 2008 6:08PM
Well,
our guild bank was robbered at saturday, so we need no spring cleaning action...
Deusmortis Mar 30th 2008 10:27PM
Did a little bag/bank cleaning myself.
Started out by examining all of that off-set gear that I have, and deciding if I really wanted to keep it. I didn't really need spell crit shoulders, heavy healing shoulders, high stam shoulders, and PVP shoulders, in addition to PvP/PvE Ret shoulders, and Tanking shoulders.
My biggest problem seems to be novelty gear. Stuff that doesn't serve much of a purpose, but I can't bring myself to throw it away. I still have my full sets of Dungeon set 2 and Tier 2 stashed away. Full brewfest regalia, winter clothes, several non-combat pets, old engineering trinkets, and some rare-ish old world mats.
Ian Mar 31st 2008 12:56AM
Another great post that'll save me time and money....
Tekkub Mar 31st 2008 3:52AM
I fight the packrat habits, I only save something if I forsee myself using it in, say, the next month. If not I AH it off, I can always buy the item later when I do need it. Unlike in real life (because the hubby has access to it as well), I find cash much easier to manage that tons of items. I don't need to find where I saved that item, I just go buy one.
I have a guild-bank-alt, and that one tab I bought isn't even 1/3 full.
arb Mar 31st 2008 3:55AM
I have two trade alts and 3 storage alts, with two Guild Banks amongst them (first page only). My trade alts have 60 days /played. All 5 have all bank slots bought. All my mains also have all slots bought.
My problem is that I compulsively buy "bargains" on AH - items/mats/consumables which are below market values. I may use them one day... or I may sell them back, but they all represent an investment.
Still, my gold still increases every week regardless of my shopaholism... 67k and counting...
Furinur Mar 31st 2008 1:11PM
Almost 20 days on my banker, (yes, I am an Auctioneer addict), so YOU are not the psychotic one my friend.