So I can't have all the things?

Last time we met we we're talking about bags and banks and I told you I would talk about guild banks later, well it's later now. Actually as my sister has pointed out it's never later it's always now, but no matter we're talking about it anyway. As far as use go's it's not terribly different from your personal bank. To that end this post is more about etiquette then use. The three big differences between your personal bank and the guild bank are; guild banks can have up to eight tabs. Obviously enough the contents of which don't belong to just you. Which leads us to the last thing; What you can withdraw from the bank (be it items or gold) on a daily basis will most likely be limited. The contents of the guild bank are made up by the collective donations of all your fellow guild members. Unless your guild is remarkably unorganized the items in the bank will be sorted within the different guild tabs. Before putting anything into the guild bank you want to make sure your putting it in the right place otherwise this can become very annoying for a guild master. To see what any given tab is

intended for you just have to mouse over the tab at the top and it will tell you what the tab has been named. By clicking on the tabs at the top it will switch you to a different bank tab (blatantly obvious I know). Some of these tabs will be earmarked for different things, often times their will be an officers only tab, or a tab intended purely for raid team members. In cases like these unless you fall into one of those categories you wont be able to access to any of the things in those tabs. Sometimes their will be a tab that says "Ask an officer" to this end it's a really good idea to know who all your guild officers are. If you don't know you can always press the "J" key. This is the default key to open your guild window, click on the roster tab and set the pull down menu to "Guild status" and that will show you all online guild members ranks. Back to banks. Guild gold just like items in the bank will be limited on how much you as a player can withdraw. That amount will also count towards the amount you can use for guild repairs for the day. Guild gold has been donated by guild players as well as collected from guild members completing quests, guild raids, battlegrounds and other activates that the game rewards the guild for.

If you should find yourself flush with cash (me neither) and want to donate some to the guild just mouse over the guild gold in the bottom right hand side and left click on it. A menu will pop up that you can fill in and then click accept. Should you for some reason want to know the transaction (withdrawal/ deposit) history of a tab just hit the "transaction log" tab and it will tell you all the comings and goings of that tab. Their is also a "money log" that will do the same thing for guild gold. Unless you are a guild master or officer their isn't much point in looking through these. As a low level guild member, bank restrictions can be really frustrating. However you need to see things from the guild masters perspective. Until you know a player you have no idea who is honest and who is going to walk away with everything in the guild bank. Sad to say but I've lived through this scenario before. As you can imagine it's not fun. So prove your character and climb up the guild ranks and don't rob people blind.

Remember we're all noobs, some of us just fly the flag a little higher.
-Morison    

Where do I put this crap!

You're questing, you're killing things and robbing their corpses, Hope you got some good stuff and had fun. If you aren't running out of bag space yet you will be in another quest or two. Good news is that you will  most likely be receiving a bag or two as a quest reward, that's the good news. The bad news is, these bags are tiny and chances are that theirs better options. Including bags especially

designed for certain professions (we'll get back to those later) with amazing amounts of space but can only carry items pertaining to that profession. If you don't have any bag addons you're going to see some grayed out boxes next to your backpack. These four spaces are intended for you to add extra bags to. You can open your bags one at a time by pressing your f12 through f8, starting with your backpack at f12 and working backwards from their. In order to get newer bigger bags you can make them yourself if your a Taylor or ask a guildie to make them for you. Often a guild will have bags set aside for new players in their guild bank (We'll get back to that in another post). Aside from bigger bags. Players also have banks at their disposal. You can find a bank in any capital city, if you're a goblin or you can access your bank remotely with your Pack Hobgoblin ability. You can find them by setting your mini map to show you the location of all banks.  Their are two varieties of banks; Personal; and

Guild (I told you we'd talk about it in another post, so stop asking) For our purposes we'll only be talking about the personal variety. Just like with your backpack the first bag for your bank is free but the others you have to provide for yourself. Unlike your bags though you will have seven extra bag spaces and you'll also have to pay to unlock these extra spaces (50silver for the first one, 1gold for the second, 10gold for the third, and 25gold for bag space 4-7 respectively) when all is said and done it will cost a grand total of 111gold and 50silver not counting the cost of the bags. I would suggest that you unlock these as you need them. We'll talk about void storage later on. It gives you extra space to store you belongings at a considerable cost (100 gold to unlock it) and it has some restrictions on what you can put in it. For the time being your bags and bank should fulfill all your packrat needs. I would also suggest to everyone to tryout the addon Bagon. This addon consolidates all your bags into one so that you don't have to waist time looking from bag to bag to try and find items that you can't remember where you put them. The addon will do the same thing for your bank as well. Good luck and don't be a hoarder.

Remember we're all noobs, some of us just fly the flag a little higher.
-Morison

Well hello, Mr. Red man

So you've been playing for a while and I'm sure you may have ended up on the ass end of an ass kicking. Don't worry. That's natural, it happens to the best of us. However their are ramifications to these ass kicking's. The more damage you take the more damage your gear takes. As your gear takes damage it protects your character less and less, and your character puts out less and less damage

particularly if your weapon breaks. In the case of several classes broken weapons will result in not being able to use many of your abilities. In the earlier levels you won't notice the damage as much because you're replacing your gear so frequently. However their will come a time when you aren't replacing your gear as often and the wear will start to show. You'll know when your gear is messed up because a small paper doll of a set of armor will start to appear on the right hand side of the screen. If a piece of armor is displayed in yellow that means it's damaged, if it's displayed in red that means it's broken. You will also be able to tell the state of your gear by moussing over a piece of your gear and reading the durability fraction. If the gear is altogether broken it will appear in red. Don't worry though, just because your gear is wrecked doesn't mean you have to replace it all. You just have to head back to a town/city and find a repair NPC. As mentioned in a previous post you can locate the repair NPC in any town by selecting the magnifying glass on the mini map clicking on towns people and then selecting repairs. Talk to him and you can

click on one of the two anvil icons at the bottom of the screen, the silver anvil will charge you for the repairs, the gold anvil will charge your guild bank for the repairs if your guild gives you access to guild repairs. If your gear is not damaged the anvil icons will appear grayed out. Their you go boys and girls remember to save your pennies and stay away from murlocks because theirs no armor insurance.

Remember we're all noobs, some of us just fly the flag a little higher.
-Morison