How many bank alts is too many?

NiennaMiriel · Post by **NiennaMiriel** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:09 pm

I already have 2, and I'm thinking of creating another one... I was fine until they changed the disenchant skill to be level specific. Now my 67 finds all sorts of items that I'd like to DE, and she can't, 'cause my warlock is only 100-something in enchanting.

I had them all on my 2nd bank alt, but she got too full, so now they're in mail limbo waiting to be returned after 30 days. Do I create another one for just enchanting storage, or do I suck it up? lol

oiseaux · Post by **oiseaux** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:34 pm

I know exactly what you mean with those DE changes. It really messed me up for a while. I have someone in my guild DEing stuff for me though. Thank goodness!

Personally, if my banks were getting that full I would start selling stuff. Why exactly are you saving all of that stuff anyway? AH , DE, or vendor so you can get some gold out of it now. Storing that much stuff isn't really helpful. I guess I do not understand why you have all of that saved.

I clear my banks out almost every week of stuff, so they don't get too full. If her bags start getting full, I go through everything and start vendoring if the items aren't selling like I thought they were going to.

My banks are used mainly for extra space before I AH them or just vendor them if I decide the green is too expensive to list on the AH. Nowadays, the deposits make me hesitant to list stuff. If for 24 hours I can't list the item for under 3 gold, it gets vendored or DEd.

xpolockx · Post by **xpolockx** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:14 pm

My bank holds most of my crafting stuff, my AH character sells the stuff worth selling, and my disenchanting alt is rarely ever used anymore since the disenchanting change (and since my pally is an enchanter, so I've been leveling it on there instead... yay for running myself through instances using my cousin's account.) So basically I've got 3 banks, albeit one not used much anymore. Luckily I have a friend to DE all the stuff my pally can't DE yet (which is mostly 50+) so that's eased up the space I've needed for all the greens I come across.

NiennaMiriel · Post by **NiennaMiriel** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:27 pm

To answer your question oiseaux. I try to hold onto things until I have a full stack to sell. It seems to me that I have better luck selling full stacks of things, than partials. Or maybe it's because I always look for full stacks instead of partials.

xpolockx · Post by **xpolockx** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:49 pm

I like to sell stuff by how much is used in a crafting recipe if I remember how much the recipe uses... some stuff actually sells better in small stacks than in a full stack, especially if whoever is buying it doesn't want to have extras left over

But other than that, yeah, many things do sell well in a full stack.

DM. · Post by **DM.** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:12 pm

I think we should have the ability to send soulbound items to our other chars that we own..... I just hate that I am forced to part ways with my Tier 1-3 gear that I worked so hard to earn and just have to see it sell for a few gold to an npc =(

Skyfire · Post by **Skyfire** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 3:16 am

Actually, you'll find a lot of things sell easier in individual items (or at least, this is what I found when I sold dusts and such). Or, in sets of two. Or in half-stacks depending on price (eg, dusts are good, shards are not).

People can do the proper math if needed, and doing so only puts your items at the top of the AH browser, rather than the bottom

. This also makes undercutting easier. Heck, sometimes you can get away with undercutting, because sometimes people just want 1 or 2 dusts as opposed to 10, and so you can price at (sometimes above) market value.

Babs · Post by **Babs** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 4:42 am

I have 2 banks myself.
1 bank hold all reagents, rep items, "Things I might use later"
my 2nd bank holds all my money, items for AH, Items ready to DE, and makes lots of profit using auctioneer

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:12 am

Got no banks here, but a lot of stuff sitting in mailboxes - I tend to bounce all my spare stuff off alts a lot

I did use one alt as a bank for a while, to hold stuff I wanted for my draenei priest when she levelled (I collected things for a while before TBC for her), but I've now used all the stuff I was storing on that alt and back to a lot of bouncing of mails.

I need to learn to throw more things away I guess, though more storage space or things stacking higher would be very nice indeed (who had the bright idea of making cut gems unstackable?

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xpolockx · Post by **xpolockx** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:28 am

Yeah, I've got my T1 and T2 I've outgrown in my bank... I actually had to buy that 4th bank slot haha. I just couldn't bear to part with my full 8/8 T1 yet, but I imagine I will have to soon. It'll be a sad day.

I too bounce a lot of stuff back and forth between alts. At the moment most of it is pally gear I send to my pally sometimes a bit too early

And as far as selling stuff goes, it helps just to watch the market. Personally, I never buy the small stacks of overpriced mats... I'd rather just buy the whole stack, use what I need and resell the rest, since it's much smarter

It just depends though, since a lot of things sell best in full or half stacks than in small bits and pieces, while some things sell best one at a time or in very small stacks. Like I mentioned before, there's a pretty strong correlation to how much are used in common recipes and how they sell. For instance, back in the day I used to make elixirs of defense on my alchemist since they're a key ingredient in the making of toughened leather gloves (a very popular 20's blue for rogues, hunters, feral druids and enhancement shaman.) I found that since the recipe calls for 2 per combine, they sold best in stacks of 2. Pretty simple, but I've found it's like that for a lot of things

oiseaux · Post by **oiseaux** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:11 pm

If you can sell stuff individually that is the way to go. Someone else might be trying to finish off a stack they have in order to create an item. Also as Skyfire said you can actually list things for more. For example, a stack of silver bars may be selling for 10 gold, but I can sell a single Silver bar for 1 Gold. That is double what I would make if I had just matched the market price on a full stack.

Leather you should put in stacks unless it is the rare types of leather, such as wind scales, nether dragonscales, thick clefthoof leather, etc.

Enchanting supplies should always been sold individually. You will make more money off of them and why sell it in a stack? You will be losing gold if you do that. There are no listing fees for enchanting items, so you never lose on having to relist it at a higher than normal price. I buy those cheap stacks of 10 and resell them quite often.

With no listing fees, there is no risk.

sneakymcdoom · Post by **sneakymcdoom** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:21 pm

My fiance and I each have a "bank" type character on each of our accounts. Mine holds tradeskill supplies that either don't sell well at the AH, or that we *might* need later (there are 17 Alliance characters between the two of us on one server).

His is purely an auction alt. Everything we pick up from questing/instances/whatever that can be sold goes to him. I don't have the patience or the bag space to do any of my own auctioning, and he's got a system that works, lol.

I think he's holding out on me, though. I still don't have my epic bird yet, wtf?? Hehe

uigrad · Post by **uigrad** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:21 am

I have multiple characters on every server that I play. None of them are strictly bank alts, but many of my characters are given charge of particular types of resources.

All weapons and armor are sent to my (dis)enchanting character. General auction items (ie. fel armaments) tend to be sent to her too, since she spends so much time on the AH.

My warrior's bank is dedicated to keeping stranglethorn pages. My hunter's bank is dedicated to holding meat for cooking later, or for feeding pets.

My secondary tailor keeps all cloth scraps to make bags for others. I have two high level tailors for the purpose of transmuting, so he also keeps any extra primals and motes I find.

Lahaie · Post by **Lahaie** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:21 am

I have 8 characters that I play on a regular basis and a few others that I play from time to time. Almost all of them have 16 slots bags in all spots available.

I currently have 2 banks that I use to store mats and other items that I may find useful. I rarely rely on others to provide me with stuff, so I grind for my own mats. With all the new items in BC, my banks are starting to get pretty full so I have purchased all the extra bank slots and I'm working on getting them full of 16 slot bags. Once I get a tailor up, I will then start sending them 18 and then 20 slot bags.

I used to have more bank toons, but the additional bank space and bag slot has helped. I usually only sell stuff when I know I won't need to use it for one of my characters.

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NiennaMiriel · Post by **NiennaMiriel** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:12 pm

Ok. I did it. I cleared out my alts. If I was holding on to it to sell, I just listed it. So far, quite a bit has sold, and I've made 300 gold, and I have a ton still listed. Hopefully the items that don't sell are dusts and essences, so I don't have to pay to relist, but I'm thinking that's not going to be the case.

I guess I just have to go through once a month and have a mass housecleaning of my banks.