Silvermoon City Banker
With the release of guild banks, many bank alts have purchased them for extra space. They provide 96 slots per tab with up to 6 tabs available for purchase. So is it cheaper to have a new bank alt purchase a few tabs or just buy bags and bag slots from their personal banks? Lets find out…
Personal Bank Method
- 1st – 10 Silver
2nd – 1g
3rd – 10g
4th – 25g
5th – 25g
6th – 25g
7th – 25g
Total: 111.10g
Total: 77g
Slot Breakdown
- 28 Bank
112 Bank Slots
16 Backpack
64 Personal Bags
0 Guild Bank
Total Slots: 220
Price: 188g
Price per slot: .85g
Guild Bank Method
- Guild Charter – 10 Silver
1st – 100g
2nd – 250g
3rd – 500g
4th – 1000g
5th – 2500g
6th – 5000g
Total: 9350g
Slot Breakdown (Using 2 Tabs as an example)
- 28 Bank
0 Bank Slots
16 Backpack
0 Personal Bags
192 Guild Bank (96 per tab)
Total slots: 236
Price: 350.1g
Price per slot: 1.4g
From the results, you can see that purchasing bank slots and bags is cheaper than buying guild tabs. Even more so if you have the bags crafted as you only need netherweave cloth. Remember the guild bank method is a set price and does not change. It also scales terribly since the more tabs you buy, the greater the cost. By the time you buy all 6 tabs for 9350g, you are paying over 16g a slot! Lets say you use small 6 slot bags with the personal bank method, your still paying less per slot compared to the guild bank method.
Personally I have a combination of both, I like how the guild bank has all your items in one space compared to having all your personal bank slots open at once. I guess I could download a bag mod to fix this. Another reason I have both is I like having only one bank alt and do not like logging on to multiple characters. So when all my bags and slots became full on my bank alt, I ended up buying 2 bank tabs for more space. Some of you may only specialize in one particular market, so having item specific bags will be even cheaper when using the personal bank method. However some of you heavy auction house players will need more than the 200+ slots used in the examples above. Many of you probably have multiple bank alts already to handle the amount of items you move daily.
I hope this information helped you make a decision if you were just making your first bank alt or were considering one. Buying bags and personal bank slots are the way to go when you are starting out, then expand to a guild tabs if you need more space for that one bank alt.
The question is should you wait until Wotlk for the new 22 slot [Glacial Bag] or buy the current 22 slot ["Gigantique" Bag]? At the moment on the beta, 22 slot universal bags are the biggest ones you can obtain, including raid drops. While the mats for a [Glacial Bag] looks expensive and has a total of 32 days (16 with specialization AND trading) worth of cloth cool downs, speculators seem to think the final cost of the bag will still be less than 1200g. The current materials that are needed for this bag are; 4 [Moonshroud], 4 [Ebonweave], 1 [Eternium Thread].
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