Nope, level 1 and up get saved. 10 is just to be able to wear more fashionable clothes. =)

And, if you're a Warrior, to get 1 point in "Booming Voice" to make sure everyone can hear your /2. Trade advertisements.

OR, make your bank alt a rogue, and at level 10, you have sprint... which I use to run back and forth quicker from Vendor, to AH, to mailbox.

I had never thought of using Sprint on a bank alt before. I still hadn't made one before this article, so I just went to make myself a human rogue named Suntrust.

Level 10 is also required to transfer charachters. Its also kind of neat to see a character named Wamu or Bankaltseven at high level

Make a lvl20 mage bank alt: Teleport & Blink.

Actually from what they tell us - it would be. Physically. They don't have enough resources to store more items for each character. Now, you can go on and on about how people use more on their bank alts anyway, but I'm pretty sure Blizz has accounted for this in their estimations.

As space becomes cheaper, they will likely increase the limits. Until then, bank alt is perfectly fine.

As for portable AHing...a nice idea...but I think it's easy to see why they didn't implement it...there's such a thing as too much control. It's been like this forever, so stop complaining.

AWESOME IDEA - I like the concept of bigger stacks for cloth, ore, herbs, pots -- pots are small vials, why do they require so much space 5 to a stack?

Good idea dude.

Typically the bag space on my bank alt is not relevant. Their primary use is to receive tradeskill items, green and blue BOE's, and any other "stuff" in the mail and put it on the auction house. The only storage they need is enough to store up a full stack of, say, ore of each type, or cloth, or whatever.

It's actually a database limitation. Technically, it's a shortsightedness on Blizzard's part. They simply did not account for enough bag slot rows in the database. This is also why they have never increased the starter bag slot's space.

Now, they *can* do it. But at this point it's a lot of work for them. This is why you don't see it often. But you'll notice, in TBC they increased the amount of bank space. I suspect they'll do the same for WotLK, maybe even more significantly so. I assume the reasoning behind this is, they are already needing to change the database, so it's much easier to make these changes when they are forced to anyways.

What else I find absurd, is how much a freaking 24 slot bag costs.... COME ON!!! I am stuck with 20 slot bags because I am not dropping that much cash on 4 more slots. On my server the price is retarded.

Either: make the drops or re-spawns more frequent or make patterns more accessible (for larger bags). Bags are a need, not a want!

I use characters I'm not actively playing to store stuff, but I disagree that most players only have time for one or two mains. Many players enjoy leveling as much as or more than playing end game. I have three 70s, one 64 and am planning to start leveling another character once that one hits 70.

Also, the cost for bank tabs goes up per tab. The second one is 250g, then 500g, then 1000g, then 2500g, then 5000g.

Being the anti-social person that I am (still play wow all the time) I did the guild thing. I have my own guild bank that I share between all my characters. It works quite nicely. With all the dailies I'm going to be getting my 4th tab soon, which is overkill considering I do fine with three tabs.

So if more bag space would cause resource issues for Blizzard, then why not increase stack sizes? Why not stack cloth to 250? Why not stack ore to 100? One could easily argue that Blizzard is responsible for people needing so many bag slots because they have made stack sizes artificially small.

They shouldn't complain about resource constraints when they could reduce the number of resources needed to store materials by simply increasing stack sizes.