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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 7 or 8 slot 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.

* You can not directly move money via the shared bank slot (the manual is wrong).

* 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. This is particularily important if you have left your merchant on overnight selling lots of cheap items, as it is easy to accumulate lots of copper in a short time. If you are encumbered, try sprinting -- it will help you get to the bank a little faster.

* 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" (I recommend ALT-I). 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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