Guild Bank

So I thought it may be useful to have a discussion about what our guild bank is, who it's for, where to put useful stuff, and perhaps what sort of stuff really isn't all that useful and is just taking up space (aka - junk).  There's some information in our rules bible, but I'm hoping to add some more detail on what sort of stuff is actually useful and how it's organized. 

What is the guild bank?   

The guild bank is a place to keep the community property of the guild.  Keeping in mind that we are a casual guild that likes to raid, we try to keep the guild bank stocked for those purposes - having fun and casual raiding.  As such, you'll see various tabs with varying degrees of access and different sorts of items.  It is stuff that's donated by our fellow guild members for the benefit of our other members and the guild as a whole.  We're generally of the "a rising tide raises all boats" kind of mentality - what's good for one of our members is good for the guild as a whole.  If you have something useful to share, by all means drop it in.  See something useful that you'd like - that's what it's there for.  We don't stockpile items for the fun of it or for any sort of bragging rights - we put it there to be taken by someone who can use it. 

Who is it for?

Everyone!  Seriously, the guild bank is there to help the guild.  We do place restrictions on who can withdraw from which tab, but that's mostly to help reduce the disruptions when someone gets hacked (so the whole guild bank doesn't get ninja'd).  Unfortunately with a guild as large as Natural Order is, someone getting hacked every week or two has become far too common of an occurance.  Go get your authenticators people!  But from a pratical standpoint that means that most of our new members are restricted to only being able to withdraw a few items a day from the 1st tab.  Those that have been around a while, can generally grab stuff from the first 6 tabs.  Quoting from the rules bible here: "Even if you don't have bank privileges just ask an elder for an item and they can obtain it for you. The Elder Tab is just a bit of a control on the most valuable items so new people we're not sure of yet can't just steal and vendor them. If you're with us and ask for it though, you can probably have it. Certain items at certain times may be placed on restriction by elders for regular raiders, or crafters, etc."  See below for some details on restrictions per tab.

Where do I put X?  or Where should I look to find Y?

Rule of thumb for all tabs - if the entire stack of your items is worth less than a few  gold, and it's not something that's really hard to find, then you're probably better off just vendoring them.  If you bought it from a vendor in Org, then so can anyone else - no need to keep it stored in the GB. 

Tab1 - "Free For All": This is generally our 1 tab for leveling gear and mats.  If it's useful and at least semi-expensive or hard to find, but not something that fits better in one of the other tabs, then this is the place.  This is where you should put level 81-84 blues (ilevel 333 and less), or level 80 and less epics (blues and greens below level 80 generally aren't useful - the BOA gear is better than all the blues).  Keep in mind that we aren't a leveling guild, so things like your stranglethorn and shredder pages, while somewhat hard to find, just aren't all that useful.  Keep stuff like that in your personal bank if you just can't stand to see it vendored

Tab2 - "Consumables": This is where we keep our level 85 raiding consumables - the ones that aren't uber expensive.  Level 85 Potions for mana, health, haste, crit, armor, strength, etc.  Level 85 elixers.  All level 85 food buffs and the raw meat/fish required to make them. 

Tab 3 - "Tradeskills": Level 80-85 raw materials for crafting.  Enchanting, Skinning, Leatherworking and Tailoring.  You'll find some lower level stuff here, but we actually try not to keep that stuff stocked.  Refer back to the rule of thumb when you're deciding about storing something.

Tab 4 - "Tradeskills": Level 80-85 raw materials for crafting.  Mineing, Jewelcrafting, Blacksmithing, Engineering, Herbalism.  At the moment we seem to be full of cut level 85 green gems.  That's not a bad thing to keep on hand, but there's lots more useful stuff to keep around.

Tab 5 - "Enchants": Think of it more as a gear enchancement tab.  If you find it in the AH, under the Consumable -> Item Enhancement tab, then this would be the GB equivilent.  Enchanting vellums will probably always make up the bulk of the stuff here, but this is also where to put stuff like armor kits, weapon scopes, spellthreads, etc.  You will find a bunch of low level enchant scrolls here too - someone who can use them, please go slap them on an alt or something.  There's just no reason to keep a ton of +50 health to chest scrolls.

Tab 6 - "Glyphs": Pretty self explanitory.  But beyond just the standard glyphs we used to store a fair amount of ink and some of the inscription cards too.  At the moment those are all pretty spendy items so they're in the elder tab, but expect that to change once we move further into the expantion.

Tab 7 - "Ask and Elder":  This is our restricted place for all things expensive.  If its worth more than 50g -100g this is probably the place to look.  We're getting close to our 8th tab too - as full as our current "Ak and Elder" tab is, I'd expect our 8th one to go this way too.  Just a note on gear - blues less than iLevel 333 belong in the first tab.  Lets try to keep the gear here to only the top tier (iLevel 359) and one tier back (iLevel 346).   

So what do we actually need more of? 

Gems (All current colors of the level 85 blue gems - uncut works best to stack, but we can take some cut ones too)
Enchanting Materials (All current varieties - Hypnotic Dust, Celestial Essences, Heavenly Shards, and Maelstorm Crystals)
Specialty Gems (For Metas)
Armor/Leather Kits
Spellthreads
Belt Buckles
Volatiles (all kinds)
Fish Feasts/Goblin BBQ (and the raw mats to make them)
F lasks, Potions & Elixers (Haste, Mana, Health, Crit, Strength, etc)
Runescrolls + Drums (For those occasions where you just don’t have the buff any other way)
Herbs (All current varieties)

Restrictions

Tab 1 only limits people to withdrawing 5 items a day.  But as stated above, if you actually have a good use for more than that, just ask. 

Tab 2-6 are limited to pathfinders

Tab 7 (and presumably 8) is limited to elders.

What about those smexy looking epics in the "Ask an Elder" tab?

I'd start by referring everyone to the BOE drop policy - bascially if you see a BOE epic in the GB, make a post on our forums about it - anyone else interested should post their interest and after a 24-hour waiting policy it will be looted to the person with the highest PR - the winner will be charged GP.  If it's a crafted BOE though, just ask - those are generally free, first come first served - see BOE crafted policy.  If you're not sure about a particular item or don't see a craftable BOE that you're looking for - just ask.