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THINGS I WISH I'D KNOWN EARLIER - Inventory and Banking

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* Elm strongboxes can be fairly easily made via the tradeskilling system and will give you a 5-8 slot (depending on quality) container you can put in your bank. Fill all the slots in your bank with them and you will be able to hold quite a bit of stuff. They are too heavy to lug around on your character, but bags can be crafted from harvested hides in a similar way.  Bags have less slots than boxes of the same tier.

* You can not directly move money via the shared bank slot (the manual is wrong).  Coin can be mailed though, at a cost of 10c.  (Unknown if more recent manuals have corrected this.)

* Coin has weight in this game. Make sure you go to the bank and convert your copper to silver occasionally, otherwise you will become encumbered. If you are encumbered, try sprinting -- it will help you get to the bank a little faster.

* A way to reduce money weight when you don't want to run to a banker is to buy something costly from a merchant and sell it back (without closing the window).  Most items will sell back at the same cost as long as you have not closed the window. This should allow you to convert most of your small coins to bigger ones.

* A few items cannot be sold back at full price, I don't have a complete list of these but they all seem to be stackable items. So when you buy something just to resell it immediatly, pick something that hasn't a number in its lower right corner. At low levels, torchs are handy for just that purpose.

* At times it can be useful to open all your bags at once. To set this up, select the EQII button, then go to options>key commands. Choose a hotkey for "open all bags" (default is B). Pressing that hotkey will open all your bags, and pressing it again will close them all. Alternatively, you can use the /togglebags command. You can create a hotbar button to togglebags by creating a macro (EQII button>socials>emotes>macros), then dragging the macro to your hotbar.

* You can pick up a single item from a stack of items by holding down the control key and clicking on the stack of items. You can pick up a specific quantity by holding down shift and clicking on the stack of items.

* You can downconvert coins in your bank by using the /bank_withdraw command. Go to your banker and open your bank. Then type /bank_withdraw ### (where ### is the amount of coins in copper you want to withdraw), and it will make change for you. The command is smart enough to convert 100 copper to silver, and 100 silver to gold, so if you /bank_withdraw 266, you will receive 2 silver and 66 copper, not 266 copper.

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