WoW Monkey

There are many aspects to the World of Warcraft which we tend to take for granted. Item drops, dailies, and farming in general tend to consume the many hours that we spend trying to advance. In order to make the best use of our time in-game, it’s important that we have a system in place to deal with the clutter, the chores and the other aspects which may not be quite as fun as the rest of the game. Below, I’ll outline some of the steps, which, i hope, will lead to a better system for my own mail management.

1. Create a system.

No matter what you want to accomplish, it’s very important that goals are set in place for things to be successful. Personally, I’ve been trying to set certain characters mail and bank slots for certain items. I’ve bought my 3rd tab today which will be devoted to pots and raiding food only.

2. Stick to the system.

While I’m generally fairly good at managing my mail, it’s gotten to the point where I come on late at night, at the end of the day, just to see whats expiring. If something is expiring and isn’t going to bounce back, I place it in my bags and move it to a character’s mail which isn’t as full as the rest. This is the wrong thing to do. It’s very very important to keep things at the proper locations or the system will fall apart.

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4. Profit

Yes, it is still possible to profit. Sell whatever you feel will give you the most profit for time invested. Again, my problem is I have been a packrat. Part of this is due to having one character of each profession and many many lowbie alts which can always use the item drops. However, now that I’ll be raiding once LK comes out, more and more of my time will be devoted to my main toon, Shadowshiftr, and less to my alts. As a result, I’m hoping that I can vendor the vast majority of my lowbie crap.

A few tips:

* Mails can only show up to 50 pages at a time. Items past the 50 mark will not show and CAN and WILL be deleted after their 29 days pass.

* If you need more bagspace, or storage space in general, guild bank tabs are a relatively cost effective means to store items. In addition, if you have an addon like Possessions, tracking items becomes easy and effective.

* Guild Bank Slots aren’t cheap but new mules are! If you’re running out of space, make a new mule and form a guild. The first bank slot is only 100g and the 2nd is only 250. Easy 200 slots extra!

Anyone that has played World of Warcraft can attest that after some point, mail management becomes a nightmare. The expansion pack is coming and now more than ever I really need to get a handle on my mail. One of the reasons for all of my alts, was in order to have mules so I could send items back and forth in mail to eliminate the clutter amongst my bags. Unfortunately, now that mails have an increased capacity (they hold 12 items instead of one — both a good and bad thing), when the mails are about to expire and will not bounce back to their sender, they tend to create even more clutter than they were eliminating in the first place.

Items have been sent from one character to another, sometimes as partial stacks so now my inventories and mails are cluttered up beyond belief.

Needless to say, I spent about 4 hours today trying to get things under control, managed to get Shadowshiftr’s mail empty 100% and started to work on another bank toon — but barely scratched the surface of the amount of stuff I had.

For those that are curious, I’ll attach some bank guildtab screenshots to a private post later. So, what do you do about bank clutter? Do you AH it all? Vendor it? Send it back and forth in the mail? Comment

They say first impressions are the most lasting. So far, Resolve has met and exceeded my expectations. Granted, I’ve only been with them a day and a half,  but so far so good.

In the past day and a half, I’ve already managed to run several heroics, including:

Blood Furnace

Ramparts

Durnholde

Black Morass

and Heroic Magister’s Terrace.

The last one I’m particularly interested in because I had only been there 3 times total, on normal. Heroic, while being a challenge, was fun.  We had a bit of a rocky start, but a few near-wipes were avoided.

Gonna share some screenshots I thought were pretty cool too, loving the new swipe mechanic:

So, so far, I’ve run more heroics lately than I have in the past, trying to get back into my tanking role. I’ve also been working hard on getting my toon properly gemmed and enchanted.

added the following:

15 agi gloves

12 agi cloak

6 stats chest

and the following gems:

2x Delicate Crimson spinels

1x Beaming Fire Opal

Goals for tomarrow:

More Heroics. 12 stam on boots. Figure out the last 2 gems I need for bracers and helm. Possibly buy the season 2 shoulders but undecided on that yet.

All in all, had an awesome day and awesome time. See you tomarrow!

Kudos to a good friend of mine, and he doesn’t know it yet.

“Any monkey can follow a guide, written by others — I want to be the monkey that writes the guide”

And so we shall. And SO we shall!!