Lethal Shots

Banker alts are great. I know a lot of people already have one, but for those of you that don’t, you need to create an alt strictly for banking. Banker alts serve 2 main purposes; storage and working the Auction House.

First let’s talk about storage. I know that you are just like the rest of us. Your bank and bags are bursting at the seams with food, potions, flasks, enchanting materials, leather, ore/metal, gems, armor, weapons, non-combat pets, mounts, and just about anything else you can think of. Now I am not here judge. We all hang on to things we don’t really need. It is human nature. Sometimes you do it for sentimental reasons (like armor and weapons we no longer use), sometimes you like to collect things (like non-combat pets), or sometimes you find a good deal on the auction house and buy more than you need. But whatever the reason may be, the result is the same. You just don’t have enough room to store it all. This is where a dedicated banker alt comes in. He can hold onto all your non-soulbound items that you can’t bear to part with, which for the most part means crafting materials.

Now we’ll go over the advantages of having a dedicated Auction House alt. Imagine what you have to do whenever you want to browse the Auction House, sell items, or perform an Auctioneer scan without a banker alt. You have to spend time running or flying to one of your factions major cities, then more time running or flying back to where you are questing. This is terribly inefficient. Now imagine that you have an alt that is permanently parked in one of the major cities. Any time you need to do Auction House related task, all you need to do is log out and log back in on your parked alt. You can then use him to browse or scan the Auction House, sell any itmes you have mailed to him, and then mail any purchases you made to your character that you are leveling. There is also another advantage to this strategy. If you remember right, any time that a character spends in an inn or major city grants them rested status, which he in turn gains faster if he is logged out. So if you are wanting to spend some time working the Auction House, then it would be to your advantage to let your leveling characters rest to the fullest while you use a banker alt to work the Auction House.

A third advantage of a banker alt that is a little less obvious is to have him hang on to all of your money. A lot of people do this to help curb impulse spending. If they have to log out and then back in as another character just to buy something, they may think twice about how bad they need / want it. I try to only keep a maximum of 30 gold on any one character, everything above that i mail to my bank alt at the end of my playing session. This also makes it easy to consolidate money for large purchases, such as mounts.

I have one character that I use for all these functions. Some people may choose to have one alt for banking and another for working the Auction House. It really is just a matter of personal preference. Whichever you may choose, I wish you well and that you may always find space in your bags for your latest knick knack.