Lemmings Guildbank: do's and don'ts

We have updated the guild vault with another tab! Below an explanation of each tab, and beneath the 'read more' link a how it works and do's and don'ts.

The bank tabs

1. Free for all
Anyone can deposit and withdraw (2 items) with their main! Feel free to take what you can use - no more than you can 'eat' and naturally not for putting it on Auction House
You can also update the info page on this tab so you can leave a message with your current needs for items. Like: "Jaques (Anharyd) needs 40 runecloth for her paladin quest".

2. Blue stuff & epics/'my precious'
Only officers can withdraw from this tab at the moment. Anyone can deposit.

3. Recipies
Anyone can deposit and withdraw (2 items) with their main!

4. Raid food & elixirs
Anyone can deposit and withdraw (2 items) with their main!

5. Healing and mana potions
Anyone can deposit and withdraw (2 items) with their main!

6. Inscriptions & Gems (aka buff stuff)
Anyone can deposit and withdraw (2 items) with their main!

Go ahead and make good use of things while you level

How it works

Where: In Shattrah, Ironforge and Stormwind, probably Exodar, Booty Bay, Gadgetzan and Everlook too, there's a Vault added to the bank houses. In Ironforge, you'll find the vault opposite the leftest and rightest bankers; in Stormwind, between the bankers and on both sides of the exit. In Shattrah, you need to go behind the bankers into a little niche where an animated vault-door has been added.

How: Moving items from your inventory to the vault goes in much the same way as moving items between your inventory and your bank, with a right-click on the item or by dragging it. You can donate money to the bank by clicking 'deposit' within the bank window as pointed out in the image above.

Depositing items: hot or not, and what to do if it's not

Now, everyone has been absolutely brilliant in donating items, but our space is limited. Even if we save up for a fourth tab (which I suppose would be a free for all crafting frenzy), we have to have some rules on what we want to keep, and what just clutters up community space. To help you determine what's hot or not, I've made a little table

HOT	NOT
Blue items!	Green items. green items drop like flies and while it is really lovely that you want to share them, they take up a lot of space in the guildbank and have only a tiny chance of getting picked up. If you have a green item you want to share, either: Check the guild roster for the person who could use it and mail it to them (like, level 55 cloth with intellect and stamina - send to that level 54 warlock) Sell it to the vendor and donate the gold to the bank for an extra tab or guild investments Send it to Wilgje who then disenchants it (level 60+ items preferred)
Blue gems!	Green gems. Wilgje has a bank alt full of them. The two stacks of each color currently in the guild bank on tab one are there so it is easy for Wilgje and the other jewelcrafters to get a gem for quick gemcutting. What you can do is check if the stacks are 'full' (up to 20), and donate your gem if it's not. If it is: Put it on the AH Send it to Frostguy
Recipies of skill-level 200+	Recipies of a very low skill-level (except things like, the Mechanical Squirrel recipe). There's still an alt of mine with bags full of leatherworking and blacksmithing recipies of around skill-level 50 that have a super-high drop rate. If you get one: Offer in guildchat; no response, please vendorize
Trade-skill items of skill level 250+	Trade-skill items below skill level 250. Every profession has them; the copper bars, the rough stones, the enchanting dusts, the peaceblooms. You could fill guildbank with them in a *day* because these items are easy to get. It is very nice of you that you want to help your guildies level their professions, but the time it took you to get those items is the same it will take for them At the same time, the high level enchanters will be able to use those materials, but the potions, items, and enchants that are made with them are hardly awesome. (Strange dust is used for the 1 stamina on bracers enchant.) So please: Ask in guildchat if anyone is (known to be) levelling a certain profession Send to your own bank alt Put on AH

Please, when you deposit items, check this list in your mind, or whisper Wilgje. We want to develop a system where we all get the best use out of the vault as possible. Before the system was introduced, the items collected dust on Lemmingsbank and her friends; we want to prevent items collecting dust in the guild vault system now

Withdrawing items

This one's simple: if you see an item you would like:

1. ask in guildchat if it's okay if you grab this or that (if it's a trade-skill item, mention what it's for)
2. ask a high lemming or someone of a higher rank to get the item out of the vault for you if it's an item from tab one or tab three
3. make a monetary donation to the vault if you know the item you need is rare (like a void crystal; donate something like 30% of the AH value and it will be appreciated)
4. enjoy!

If it's an item you only need one of, and there's a whole stack in guild bank, please remember a lot of trust goes into this system and you shouldn't take more than you need.