Having 1 of each class vs bank altsFollow

The thread title is why I can never have a pally. She has a slutty red dress, a diamond tipped cane with a glowy enchant and an obvious bank alt name to boot.

I refuse to level a bank alt as it defeats the purpose in my mind. Having a low level (mine is level 1 and in a guild called <Level 1 Twinks>), lots of gold, no connection to your main, and ability to troll trade chat haphazardly while you scan the AH while being alt-tabbed.

Anyone else have this issue?

I was able to easily out threat a pally after the tank swaps in the new VoA if I didn't back off, he could not do the same.

So no thanks.

I changed my bank alts around. Now my 80 rogue sells "general" stuff like gems, assorted items I get via questing and just about anything else. My 80 priest is my scribe, his bags are near empty except for total essential items. My 73 warrior is my glyph posting alt, again I deleted all non-essentials. His bags are 4x 32 slot inscription bags and the bank holds 7 more. When I'm full on glyphs these bags are nearly stuffed. Theres a few extra regular slots that hold a bit of gear or quest items in case I ever decide to level him again (probably wont). He is prot though so once in a while I'll just queue for a random and hop right in.



Basically old alts I have little intention of playing again have become my new bankers. I have my own guild bank that my alts share, its sweet. My main (pally) is in an actual guild, but all the rest of my alts stay in my own personal 4 tab guild bank and share it, deposit gold, etc..makes crafting handy and sharing gold/crafting items between characters.


I used to have a level 1 "twink" lol but I finally bit the bullet and deleted it. To be fair I've made and deleted so many death knights, I now have yet another 55dk sitting on my logon screen and I'll probably never play it again, just soooo tired of doing the DK quests and hellfire. Fun class, a bit disappointed I deleted some of my old ones but I can never level one again.

edit- I turned off XP gain on most of my old alts in case I want to logon and PVP at 80. Most of the people who turn off XP are also level 80 but sure you get the odd 84 "twink" with 4x the health of a wrathful glad geared toon. Oh well. Ignore them, have fun playing against the rest. Queue times arent even that terrible anymore. Like I'll hop on my rogue, queue for an 80 BG then start dealing with my mail and auctions. If a BG pops in that time, sweet, if not whatever I just log off.

Edited, Dec 25th 2010 10:25am by mikelolol

Both my bank alts are level 80 with enchanting 500 in order to fulfill their disenchant duties. I'm having pretty good luck buying and disenchanting level 80 greens. There's a pretty good profit margin on the Hypnotic dust, etc. I couldn't do that with a level 1.

Bankymcalt has very important things to do, like making gold and looking sexy.

I would never have a bank alt .

I guess my main reason is there is no real point even though i have far to many alts , but i do use whichever alt is resting as a Auction House ***** that receives all my excess stuff as its a bit of a pain trying to get around since the portals vanished.

My current bank alt is my lvl 80 hunter that I have not started into Cata yet. I will eventually level him up, but probably not play him too much after that.

For people that don't have Altoholic, it's convenient to have one toon that you can mail everything to and later check for the random/miscellaneous stuff that accumulates while leveling. Also, if you post a LOT of auctions like I do when I'm in the mood to make glyphs or do some disenchanting, it keeps you from getting a chatlog full of expired auctions if you posted them on a toon you play frequently.

I have, ranging from level 1 to 2 85s, every character except pally on my main server and an extra druid. On another server I have a 70 pally, another I have an 80 lock. I just haven't been able to get into playing paladin as any spec, but I like 3 outta the 4 druid specs, so I made a second druid. I haven't really had time to play my goblin, so he's still sitting at level 1.

Having a level one bank alt is not a very good idea. Characters under level 10 cannot be restored, so if your account gets hacked, and you store all your possessions and gold on that level one, its gone forever.

Wow, I had not thought of that... Thanks for the tip. I have a level 1 bank alt, an undead rogue because I will never play a rogue. She's got a "normal" name (not some weird bank name) because I don't want people knowing that she's a bank alt. :-) I think I might go level a shaman to level 10 and make her my bank alt instead. I have an authenticator and a pretty secure password, so I'm not too worried about, but it's better to be safe than sorry.

One more reason to level a bank alt some is that certain classes have a speed talent.

Mine is a hunter that has Aspect of the Cheetah. This way the bank alt can run between the bank, mailbox and AH faster.

In IF I bet blink on a mage would work well.

I have three accounts but space still is tight because I play both Alliance and Horde on the same server. I have almost every class on both sides and multiples of some classes that I like a lot. I love leveling and questing so I have a lot of partially leveled characters that I switch around between as the mood hits me. I have several bank alts around level 9 because of the events leading up to the expansion and how much easy experience they gave. (The retaking of Echo Isles was a lot of fun and the appearance changing item is great for bank alts.)

Leveled up a troll druid last night to be my new bank alt. I hate female trolls, so I decided to go with a male troll. Got him to level 10 and then parked his butt in UC. I changed his hair style to the one with dreads and put him in a tux outfit for giggles. Too bad I couldn't find any monocles on the AH.