Cataclysm Preparation Part 2: Liquidate Your Assets

In Part 1 of our Cataclysm Preparation series, we talked about hitting level caps and saving materials to get a head start in leveling professions. In Part 2 we will discuss liquidating your items, organizing, and freeing up bank slots in preparation for all the new items and mats you will be collecting in Cataclysm.

Liquidate your assets: Time to do some spring cleaning in your banks. Many items are going to lose their value when Cataclysm launches. Lets start by taking a look at what’s taking up your precious bag space first.

• Consumables: Unless you plan on using them for leveling, take a look at what flasks/elixirs/potions/food you will no longer be using. You can either sell them on the auction house or save a few for a small advantage in leveling. If you plan on leveling a profession with consumables, you may have a nice supply for yourself in Cataclysm. However, expect the new consumables to go for a nice bit of money. Some noteworthy consumables you may want to hang onto for leveling are anything with health/mana regen. Powerlevelers will also be flasking as well. From what I hear, expect to use around 40.
• Cloth: Consider selling off all the Frostweave you have unless you want to save it for leveling Tailoring one day. However cloth may be cheaper by the time you decide to do it.
• Crafting Materials: These materials have always been valuable, there will always be people leveling professions. Keep in mind the new wave of Goblins/Worgens will level professions from level 1, including secondary professions. The idea is that new the owners of these new toons have a lot of gold and will not be farming low level things for crafting mats, but rather just buy them off the auction house. The safe thing to do right now is to just sell off whatever mats you have on the auction house. A more riskier plan would be to stockpile specific materials. We only recommend you do this if you know what you are doing and if you aren’t as experienced in making gold just yet, it would be better just to sell things off now. Obviously, save crafting mats you plan to use yourself if you are choosing to level a Goblin/Worgen or level a new profession. Remember to save some materials if you plan to craft some recipes from Wrath for those extra skill points at the beginning of Cataclysm, as mentioned in Part 1 of this series.
• Gear: Check for gear that you may not need anymore. I have not been a huge fan in saving old gear, but some people love collecting old world weapons or sets for aesthetic purposes. Look for old trinkets that you may not use anymore. I personally won’t be keeping very many vanity items, maybe just my fishing outfit and [Perdition's Blade].
• Miscellaneous Junk: Do a quick check to make sure isn’t any vendor trash that got mixed up into your inventory. If a certain item is not BOP (Bind on Pickup) and you don’t use it very often, you may want to consider moving it to a bank alt. I personally have moved things like extra scrolls, food, consumables, and crafting materials over to a bank alt till I need them. Look also for things like random Holiday or event items as well. Use your best judgement on deleting all this random junk in your inventory and if that fails just look it up on Wowhead.com to check the comments or info and see if the item has any value in the future. Just keep in mind what new Goblins/Worgens will be most likely to use while they are leveling and for their professions.

This should conclude your inventory cleaning, if you are still unsure about certain items and their use during Cataclysm, just hang on to them. After release, you can free up even more old world junk if you don’t see a need for them. After you have liquidated all your assets, do a quick organization of all your items. In my extra bank slot bags, I usually separate things into categories like gear, consumables, quest items and marks, crafting materials, old trinkets and vanity items, etc. Some of you may prefer to put all the old world items into a few bags, and leave the rest open for new incoming Cataclysm items. After you do this to your personal banks, proceed on to your personal guild banks if you have one as well as your actual guild’s bank if you happen to be the guilds banker. I wish the very best to all of you in your quest to organize and liquidate your assets, I know this can be a chore for some of you. Suggestions are always welcome and please let me know if I had missed any items.

Here are a few other interesting Cataclysm Preparation articles that my interest you:

• Cataclysm Preparation #1 (Bank) by Greedy Goblin
• Cataclysm Preparation #2 (Quests)
• Cataclysm Preparation #3 (Gold)

• Stockpile Report – Part 1: Sell Me Your Titanium! by Sterling of The Consortium
• Stockpile Report – Part 2: 700k And Counting
• Realm First 85 Part 1
• Realm First 85 Part 2
• Realm First 85 Part 3