Five Reasons I Love Bank Toons

I love my bank toons. About two weeks after I started playing the game, and my Mage was in his 20’s, I figured out that a bank toon was a great idea.

Since then, I’ve created one on the Alliance side and one on the Horde side. They have saved me so much time while leveling and banking items in general. Here are the top five reasons I love my bank toons.

5. Unload Your Bags at Every Mailbox

This is essential for leveling. You don’t have 20 slot bags, yet you pick up dozens of items that you want to save.

A quest granted you a new fishing recipe… that you can’t use. You’re finally getting Zesty Clam Meat for that cooking quest. Silk cloth? I can only make wool bandages!

Every time I hit town, I mail everything that isn’t soulbound and that I’m not going to use to my bank alt. It keeps my bags empty, and it helps keep those items accessible when I really need them. Otherwise I’d sell a lot of the stuff (cloth, food, potions) that I don’t have an immediate use for.

4. Check the AH At Any Time

This became something of a ritual after I hit 70 with my first character. Log in. Jump on the bank toon. Check the Auction House.

I could be checking for that Epic Tailoring Pattern, or some level 35 greens for my Rogue. Or maybe just some cheap materials that I’ll use later on for my professions. You can check the AH more frequently and reliably if you have a toon that does nothing but sit in town all day.

3. Sell Stuff All Day

Like above, the bank toon is a dedicated AH merchant. When leveling, I hit a major city every 2-3 levels. With my Hunter, I skipped training for a level or two if I wasn’t at a good breaking point in a quest circuit.

Selling stuff on the AH, though, takes hours. You list it. 24 hours later, you might have to relist it. You might want to wait 6 hours and see if the existing inventory drops, and the price rises. You can’t do this if you have to fly back to the main city to use the AH. A bank toon is pretty much required for efficient AH selling.

2. Stockpile Random Stuff

After you hit 70 and reach honored with Cenarion Expedition, are you ever going to need those Unidentified Plant Parts again? Probably not for that character… but you will if you roll an alt.

I have designated space in my bank toon’s bank for a bunch of stuff - enchanting mats, primals, Runecloth bags, rep hand ins, common quest items, etc. I may not have an immediate use for them, and if they were cluttering up my main’s bank I would just sell them off for whatever I could make. Instead, they wait around until I do find a use for them.

1. Who Needs a Gathering Bag?

I really came to appreciate this on my last leveling trip. My Hunter was an herbalist, and originally I thought about getting him a nice herb bag. I had one on my mage… but I already had an ammo pouch, and I didn’t want to dedicate another bag to one type of item.

Instead, I mailed all of my herbs to the bank every time I hit town. Whenever I wanted to train up my Alchemy, I would mail a bunch of herbs back… and then send the unused ones back to my bank.

Although I used to carry around a full bag of herbs in case I needed to brew 20 elixirs in the middle of a raid, there’s really no need to carry a gathering bag on your gathering character. Just use the bank.

What would I do without my bank toons, Ashcan Pete and Lohen?

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