One addon to manage every alt, every bag, every bank on EmpireManager

Dashboard

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Dashboard is the main EmpireManager window - five tabs covering your whole Roster. Open it with /em or the minimap button.

Tab 1: Characters
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The top bar
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Search box - finds characters by name, realm, guild, profession, level, class, or anything you wrote in their Notes (Sidecar).
Role filter - dropdown to show only characters with specific roles. Picking multiple roles shows only alts that have all of them.
Triage button - opens Bag Triage for whoever you’re currently logged in as.
Import / Export button - opens the Import / Export window.

What each column shows
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Column	What it is
Faction	Horde / Alliance / Neutral icon.
#	Your custom sort order. Set this in the Sidecar to keep your alts in your preferred order.
Name	Class-colored name. Hover for details.
Lvl	Character level.
iLvl	Average item level.
Gold	Liquid gold with thousand separators (e.g. `42,318`).
Storage	Bag and Bank fill bars. Hover for exact slot counts and when the Character Bank was last scanned.
Prof	Profession icons. Hover to see the actual skill numbers.
Roles	Small icons showing what roles this character has (Banker, Artisan, etc.).

Click any column header to sort. Click again to reverse. Hover any column for more detail.

Keep List & Vendor Whitelist

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Bag Triage classifies items based on rules. Sometimes you want to override those rules permanently for a specific item: “never touch this trinket” or “this green is just junk to me, always vendor it”. That’s what the lists are for.

Both lists are saved per account, survive reloads, and apply to every Character.

The two lists
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List	Command	Effect
Keep List	`/em keeplist`	These items always Keep, regardless of rules.
Vendor Whitelist	`/em vendorw`	These items always Vendor (if they have a sell price).

The Keep List wins if an item somehow ends up on both - protection always beats force-vendor.

Roles & Assignments

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Roles tell the addon what each character is for. They’re the answer to “who is my crafter?”, “who handles the auctions?”, “who do I mail locked boxes to?” Combined with your profession Storage Rules, they decide where every item in Bag Triage ends up.

You don’t need to assign every role on every alt. Start with one or two on the alts you actively play, and fill the rest in as you go.

Troubleshooting Triage

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

When Triage can’t carry out a routing decision, it doesn’t pretend - it collapses the item to Keep, prints a one-line chat warning, and tells you what’s wrong. This page covers every warning you’ll see.

When something is “unreachable”
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Routing rules and roles name a destination Character. If that Character is gone (removed from the Roster, on the Character Blacklist, or no longer holds the role the rule depends on), Triage prints a one-line chat warning the first time it sees the situation:

Sidecar

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Sidecar is the per-character config panel. It slides out from the right of the Dashboard when you click a character row, and holds the roles, professions, notes, and Triage overrides that apply only to that alt.

Click a row to open, click again to close. /em config opens it for the current character. Changes save instantly.

Tab 1 - Assignments
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Tick the roles that apply. Artisan and Gatherer also have a profession multi-select dropdown next to the checkbox.

Storage Rules

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Storage Rules are the heart of EmpireManager. You set them up once. Every character on your account follows them.

First-time setup: the Wizard
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Don’t want to build a rule set from scratch? Click the wand icon in the Storage tab header (or run /em wizard) to launch the Storage Setup Wizard. It seeds a starter rule set from one of five templates: Self-Banker, Mule Banker, Guild/Warband, Split by Expansion, or Stash Everything Else. You can edit anything afterward.

Mailing

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This page covers what happens when you click Mail All Routable in Bag Triage - who gets the items, in what order, and what restrictions WoW puts on the process.

Opening the mailbox
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At a mailbox, the Triage window opens with the Route tab listing what’s about to be mailed.

When you walk up to a mailbox:

Options Panel

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Global options live in the native Blizzard interface options panel. Open it from Blizzard’s AddOns menu, by right-clicking the minimap button, or with /em options.

Options are global - they apply to the whole account, not per-character. For per-character overrides (including Stash Old Quest Items), see the Sidecar Options Tab.

Sections
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The panel has two subcategories.

General
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Option	Default	Effect
Minimap Button	On	Show the LibDBIcon minimap button.
ESC to Close	On	Pressing Escape closes the Dashboard and Triage windows.
Clamp Windows to Screen	On	Keep EmpireManager windows inside the visible screen area.
Chat Messages	On	Master toggle for all EmpireManager chat output (Triage summaries, etc.). Turn this off to make the addon fully silent.
Verbose Messages	Off	Adds bank capacity snapshots and other diagnostic lines to chat.
Show Hints	On	Prints once-per-login Upgrade Hints (undersized bag slots, unpurchased Character / Warband Bank tabs). Independent from Chat Messages.
Always Compare Items	Off	Forces equipped-item comparison tooltips alongside Triage hover.

Triage
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The Triage subcategory groups everything that affects the Bag Triage flow. Three sections: Rules (how items are classified), Vendor (guards that protect gear from being vendored), and Actions (when the Triage overlay auto-opens).

Import & Export

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

EmpireManager can export your Characters and your Storage Rules as plain text, and import them back the same way. Useful for backups, sharing a starter pack with your Guild, or syncing between accounts.

Part 1: Using the window
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This is what you need to know to actually use Import & Export. If you want the raw format details, jump to Part 2.

Integrations

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

EmpireManager works on its own. Two optional addons unlock specific features when they happen to be loaded.

TSM (TradeSkillMaster)
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Price-aware routing for BoE gear and the AH-vs-DE split.

When TSM is loaded and Disenchant Routing is on (in Options -> Triage -> Rules), Triage asks TSM for two prices per item: market value and disenchant value. Whichever is higher decides where the piece goes:

Commands Reference

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Type any of these into the chat box. They all start with /em.

The ones you’ll actually use
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Command	What it does
`/em`	Toggles the Dashboard. The main window with all your alts.
`/em config`	Configures the current Character (roles, professions, notes). Same as clicking a Character row in the Dashboard.
`/em triage`	Opens Bag Triage for the current Character. Shows what to keep, mail, deposit, or vendor.
`/em options`	Opens the global Options panel (popups, thresholds, chat messages).
`/em ie`	Opens Import / Export. Useful for sharing Storage Rules with your Guild or backing up your roster.
`/em wizard`	Opens the Storage Setup Wizard - five templated rule sets for first-time setup.
`/em help`	Lists every command in chat.

Lists
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Command	What it does
`/em keeplist`	Items the addon should always keep, no matter what.
`/em vendorw`	Items the addon should always vendor, no matter what (Vendor Whitelist).
`/em gb`	Guilds the addon should never mail items to (Guild Blacklist).
`/em charb`	Characters the addon should ignore (Character Blacklist).

You can add items to these lists from Bag Triage row actions. See Bag Triage for current shortcuts.

Changelog

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Changelog
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[0.5.0] - 2026-06-01
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Gold tab in the character panel (/em config): shows bag gold and Warband Bank gold, with per-character “Withdraw if below” / “Deposit if above” amounts.
Auto Transfer Gold at Warband Bank (Options > General): when you open a Warband Bank, gold is moved to or from the Warband Bank to keep the character within those amounts. On = moves automatically with a chat message; off = asks first with a confirmation dialog.
Triage now vendors soulbound gear your class can never use, regardless of item level: a wrong armor type (such as Plate on a Priest), shields for classes that cannot use them, and weapons your class cannot wield. Gear you can use, account-bound (Warband) gear, and high-end items are left alone.

Changed
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Triage keeps conjured items (healthstones, mage food and water, soulwells) instead of trying to route them, since they cannot be mailed, banked, or sold.
Items that cannot be deposited because their assigned bank tabs are full now appear in the Triage window (highlighted) instead of being silently kept.

Fixed
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Guild bank capacity showing “No data”, items not depositing to your own guild bank, and guild mail recipients failing to resolve, all caused by a realm-name mismatch on realms whose name contains a space.
Setting a Map waypoint no longer causes a blocked-action error when opening the world map in combat.

[0.4.3] - 2026-05-31
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Triage: new option to automatically close the Triage window when you close the bank, guild bank, vendor, or mailbox. On by default; find it under Options > Triage.

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Roster: fixed an error that could appear on the Banks tab after opening a guild bank.

[0.4.2] - 2026-05-24
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Fixed
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Triage: Mail All Routable works with TradeSkillMaster open.

[0.4.1] - 2026-05-23
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Fixed
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Storage: cross-realm guild handling overhauled - guild home realm is tracked separately from the character’s realm, exports and remap dialog disambiguate by realm, and stale realm data on alts self-heals as soon as any one character in the guild logs in.
Core: deferred GetMoney() out of the PLAYER_MONEY event handler to avoid MoneyFrame taint.

[0.4.0] - 2026-05-17
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Storage: overflow routing - when a primary destination is full, items fall through to the next matching rule instead of stalling.
Import/Export: Remap Import dialog handles unknown characters and guilds on storage import, with duplicate-aware summary and ESC/X cancel hooks.
About panel: clickable header opens a website-URL popup; refreshed copy and tighter layout.
Dropdowns: scrollable when long, with automatic scroll-to-selected on open.
Storage: snapshot timestamps with stale-age tooltips across dashboard, Storage tab, and roster banks so you can tell at a glance how fresh each capacity reading is.
Sidecar: window is draggable by its title bar in both anchored and standalone (/em config) modes; option and simple-role checkbox labels are now clickable to toggle.

Changed
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Storage: realm-aware guild-bank keys disambiguate same-named guilds across realms.
Triage: live overlay refresh on rule changes, including per-character Sidecar toggles (previously waited for the next bag event).
Triage: warbound legacy junk handling and several capacity edge cases tightened; broader UI/UX polish pass.
Triage: re-enabled the “All matching destinations are full” chat warning, batched alongside unreachable-destination reasons.
Naming: canonical capitalization for Character / Roster / Vendor Whitelist / Guild Blacklist / Character Blacklist across user-facing strings.

Fixed
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Triage: Deposit button no longer renders on top of the Vendor button at a vendor. Dropped the BankFrame:IsShown fallback that falsely reported the bank as open; bank state now relies solely on tracked BANKFRAME_OPENED/CLOSED and PLAYER_INTERACTION_MANAGER_FRAME_SHOW/HIDE events.

[0.3.6] - 2026-05-11
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Storage Setup Wizard: new guided flow to bulk-create storage rules from templates (Self-Banker, Mule Banker, Guild/Warband Bank, Split by Expansion, Stash Everything Else). Includes per-template Review summary, Clear-existing toggle, and an option to route shared professions to the highest-skill character.
Roster: warband bank gold is now tracked and folded into the Roster Info total.

Changed
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Options panel slash-command list synced with the About tab and /em help.
Vendor and Disenchant threshold sliders show “Disabled” at 0 and drop the always-zero copper unit at other values.
Storage tab preserves scroll position across rebuilds and jumps to the first imported rule.
Storage tab capacity refreshes live as banks are visited.
Sidecar refreshes on profession learn/unlearn; Auto button simplified.

Fixed
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Import/Export hardened against malformed data.
Triage tooltip cache no longer stores empty results.

[0.3.5] - 2026-05-05
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Triage controls lock during mail and vendor operations; closing the mailbox or merchant cancels cleanly.
“Default Vendor Threshold” tooltip rewritten to reflect what it actually does.
Storage tab help tooltip clarifies that the first matching rule wins.

Fixed
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Disabled action buttons (Mail/Vendor/Deposit/Reorganize) now show their reason tooltip on hover.
Row hovers and Right-click half-highlight no longer draw on disabled rows.
Vendor cooking ingredients (Mild/Soothing/Hot/Holiday Spices, Simple Flour) no longer false-match alchemy.

[0.3.4] - 2026-05-04
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Triage: “Keep Above iLvl” option (Options -> Triage -> Vendor) protects soulbound gear at or above the configured iLvl from Pawn/iLvl vendor checks.
Triage: classification-affecting options now trigger a debounced rescan when the triage window is open.
Triage: disenchant chat notice now appends item links.

Changed
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Triage: right-click skip on the left column now keys per-row (bag:slot) instead of per-itemID, so non-stacking duplicates (e.g. caged pets) skip independently.
Triage: failed-deposit list capped at 5 entries with “… and N more” tail to keep chat readable.
Storage UI: collapsed “All Expansions” into “Any Expansion” and singularised “Tabs:”/“Expansions:” labels for consistency.
Tooltip wording: refined Ctrl+click hints, sort-order tooltip, and failed-deposit reasons.

Fixed
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Triage: rescan button and option changes now invalidate the cached classification, so new settings actually apply instead of returning stale results.
Triage: skip the deposit pass entirely when no destination has accessible capacity (e.g. warband bank with no tabs purchased) instead of dumping a per-item failure list.
Core: corrects character level on PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD even when the imported value is higher than the current level.
Core: /played request no longer prints to chat.

[0.3.3] - 2026-04-30
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Added
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Storage UI: faded fill bar behind rule fill-level text.

Changed
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Storage UI: tweaked reorder arrow spacing and help text.
Roster tooltips: standardized to “Name - Realm (level)” with class color.
Vendor dialog: reduced height of confirmation dialog and parent frame.

Fixed
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Import: validation for missing/invalid fields so bad imports don’t break the UI.
Bank actions: no longer displays “0 actions”.

[0.3.2] - 2026-04-26
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Fixed
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Triage now reclassifies after toggling a Sidecar role-behaviour option or changing role/profession assignments. Previously cached results could ignore the new setting until bag contents changed.

[0.3.1] - 2026-04-26
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Legion artifact weapons now route to character bank.
Dashboard refreshes live on level-up, equipment change, and gold change.
Minimap button enabled by default.
About page and Options panel headers use the logo image.
Confirmation dialog when vendoring uncommon+ quality items, with sell-low-quality-first ordering for buyback safety.
Confirmation dialog for /em wipe chars|rules|all.
Global Keep List (/em keeplist) - items always classified as Keep regardless of other rules.
Global Vendor List (/em vendorw) - items always classified as Vendor.
Keep/Vendor list mutual-exclusion gate with “move it instead” prompt.
Tooltip-scan-based teleport item detection (Hearthstone, Kirin Tor ring, etc. never get vendored).
Search filter supports space-separated tokens for AND matching.
Triage popup for Baganator users.

Changed
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Multi-currency formatting (correct display below 1 gold).
Cross-realm mail tooltip text clarified.
Guild bank snapshot filters viewable tabs, preserves hidden-tab data.
Storage rule purge messaging improved.

Fixed
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Item link color bleed in messages.
Dialog spacing and subtitle clarity.
Add Button positioning across dialogs.

[0.3.0]
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Initial public baseline. Changelog tracking starts here; refer to git history for pre-0.3.0 development.

One Wizard, Five Templates

Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A one-screen setup that turns an empty rule list into a working empire. Five templates, three clicks, done.

Skip the Login Tour: Import Your Roster

Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Paste your whole Battle.net roster into EmpireManager from a single web sign-in instead of logging into every character.

One addon to manage every alt, every bag, every bank on EmpireManager

Dashboard

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Keep List & Vendor Whitelist

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Roles & Assignments

Troubleshooting Triage

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Sidecar

Tab 1 - Assignments #

Storage Rules

First-time setup: the Wizard #

Mailing

Opening the mailbox #

Options Panel

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General #

Triage #

Import & Export

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Integrations

TSM (TradeSkillMaster) #

Commands Reference

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Lists #

Changelog

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One Wizard, Five Templates

Skip the Login Tour: Import Your Roster

Tab 1: Characters
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The top bar
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What each column shows
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The two lists
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When something is “unreachable”
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Tab 1 - Assignments
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First-time setup: the Wizard
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Opening the mailbox
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Sections
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General
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Triage
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Part 1: Using the window
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TSM (TradeSkillMaster)
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The ones you’ll actually use
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Lists
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Changelog
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[0.3.0]
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