EmpireManager was created with my personal needs in mind, but it has grown into a full-featured account management suite. It is designed to be simple to use, yet powerful enough to handle the most complex storage and mailing scenarios.
The sections below break it down by job, each linking to the full docs.
The core idea#
You configure storage once, by profession, and every character on every realm follows it. No per-item rules, no per-character rules. The addon already knows herbs are for Alchemy and ore is for Mining - you just say where each profession’s mats should live, and a single Bag Triage button does the moving.
Roster Dashboard#
The main window (/em or the minimap button) is a spreadsheet-style view of your whole account across five tabs. Full reference: Dashboard.
- Characters - sortable grid of every alt: faction, level, item level, gold, bag/bank fill bars, profession icons, and role icons. Search by name, realm, guild, profession, level, class, or anything in a character’s notes.
- Storage - all your Storage Rules in one list with color-coded fill bars showing how full each destination is.
- Roster - account-wide stats with five sub-tabs: Info (totals like how many characters, max level reached, and total gold across the roster, plus breakdowns by class, profession, faction, realm, and guild - most hoverable for the contributing characters), Banks (fill levels across Character, Warband, and Guild banks), Professions, Categories, and Roles.
- Map - every character grouped by last logout location. Left-click sets a cross-zone waypoint; right-click pins an alt’s coordinates (handy for alts parked at rare spawns).
- About - version info plus this-session and all-time counters for gold earned, items vendored, deposited, and mailed.
Profession-based Storage Routing#
The heart of the addon. You answer one question - which professions go where - and every alt follows it. Full reference: Storage Rules.
- Three destinations: Warband Bank (reachable by any alt, no mailing), Guild Bank (shared stockpile), or a specific Character Bank (dedicated bank alt).
- Priority and overflow: rules are an ordered list, top-to-bottom; the first matching rule wins, and when a destination fills up, items spill into the next matching rule automatically.
- Expansion filters: limit any rule to specific expansions - current-expansion mats in the Warband Bank, legacy mats pushed to a Guild Bank or alt.
- Fill bars: every bank visit records how full each tab is, shown as green/yellow/red bars so you spot “Warband Tab 2 is at 96/98” before it breaks.
- Covers everything: crafting and gathering professions, secondary professions (Fishing, Cooking, Archaeology), and non-profession categories (Equipment BoE/BoA, Recipes, Consumables, Pets, PvP, Lumber, Housing, Item Enhancements).
Storage Setup Wizard#
Don’t build a rule set from scratch. The Wizard (/em wizard or the wand icon) seeds a starter set from one of five templates - Self-Banker, Mule Banker, Guild/Warband, Split by Expansion, or Stash Everything Else - and checks the matching roles for you in the same pass. Walkthrough: One Wizard, Five Templates.
Roles & Assignments#
Roles tell the addon what each character is for, which decides where items route. Set them in the Sidecar, or auto-assign Artisan/Gatherer on import. Full reference: Roles & Assignments.
- Artisan - your crafter, up to 2 crafting professions.
- Gatherer - your farmer, up to 2 gathering professions.
- Auctioneer - receives unbound BoE gear for the Auction House.
- Banker - the warehouse keeper; auto-flagged whenever you point a Guild or Character Bank rule at a character.
- Lockpicker - receives locked lockboxes (Rogues, Mechagnomes, or Blacksmiths with Skeleton Keys).
- Zookeeper - receives caged battle pets, pet charms, and pet consumables.
- PvPer - receives PvP tokens like Marks of Honor.
Bag Triage#
The daily verb. One scan classifies every item against your rules and roles, then a few buttons do the work. Full reference: Bag Triage.
- Three categories in your bags: Route (mail to another character), Stash (deposit to a bank), or Vendor (junk or below your threshold) - with the total vendor gold shown in the summary.
- Two categories at a bank: Stash (wrong tab of this bank, fixed with Reorganize) and Take Out (doesn’t belong in this bank at all, pulled back to bags).
- Four tabs - Bags, Bank, Warband Bank, Guild Bank - each enabled when the relevant window is open.
- One-click actions: Mail All Routable, Deposit All Stash, Vendor All, Reorganize, Take Out. Counts update live during the operation.
- Hover to explain: every row’s tooltip shows the matched rule and the calculated action, so you always know why an item is where it is.
- Nothing moves until you click. Unrecognized items are left alone.
Vendor safety#
- Quality confirmation: junk and common sell silently; uncommon-and-above trigger a confirmation popup (Sell / Skip / Cancel).
- Buyback safety: lowest-quality items sell first, so any green/blue/purple gear stays recoverable longest in WoW’s 12-item buyback queue.
- Soulbound guards: equipment-set items, “Use: Teleport” trinkets/rings, an item-level ceiling, and wrong armor/weapon types always Keep - even with the opt-in Pawn or iLvl vendor checks turned on.
Keep List & Vendor Whitelist#
Two account-wide overrides that beat every rule: items you always keep (/em keeplist) and items you always vendor (/em vendorw). Full reference: Keep List & Vendor Whitelist.
Auto-open#
Triage can pop open by itself when context becomes useful - at a bank, Guild Bank, mailbox, or vendor - each with its own independent toggle.
Cross-realm Mailing#
When items need to cross to another character, Mail All Routable handles recipient resolution and batching. Full reference: Mailing.
- Recipient resolution: each Route item is addressed to the right character by role and rule - Banker, Lockpicker, Zookeeper, PvPer, or Auctioneer.
- Cross-realm aware: warbound items mail across realms; regular items that can’t be mailed fall back to staging in the Warband Bank automatically. The addon never queues a move WoW would reject.
- Per-recipient batching: items group by recipient, with a confirmation dialog per batch and automatic multi-mail splitting for WoW’s 12-attachment limit.
Import & Export#
Share your roster and rules as plain text - for backups, Guild starter packs, or cross-account sync. Full reference: Import & Export.
- Export Characters, Storage Rules, or All as copy-paste text.
- Auto-assign roles on import - imported characters get Artisan/Gatherer from their professions.
- Portable rule sets: hand your Storage Rules to a guildmate and a remap dialog walks them through assigning the named characters to their own roster.
- Bulk roster import via the Get Characters web tool - one Battle.net sign-in registers your whole roster at once, instead of logging into every alt. Walkthrough: Skip the Login Tour.
Sidecar (per-character config)#
Click any character row to slide out the Sidecar - roles, professions, notes, and per-character overrides. Full reference: Sidecar.
- Assignments - check roles and pick professions (with an Auto button that fills Artisan/Gatherer from the game).
- Details - read-only character info: identity, gold, item level, spec, per-expansion skill levels, and capacity.
- Notes - free-form text per alt, shown in Dashboard tooltips.
- Options - per-character overrides: custom sort order, keep profession mats in bags or bank, keep BoE for the Auctioneer, keep vendor gear for disenchanting, stash old quest items, and remove-from-roster.
Optional Integrations#
Both off by default and safe to skip. Full reference: Integrations.
- TSM (TradeSkillMaster) - price-aware AH-vs-disenchant routing for BoE gear; without it, a simple copper threshold does the same job.
- Pawn - vendor soulbound non-upgrades automatically, evaluated against your active spec, behind the full stack of safety guards.
Built to stay out of the way#
EmpireManager wakes up when you open a bag, bank, mailbox, or vendor, then goes quiet again. Global options (Options Panel) cover thresholds, auto-open triggers, chat verbosity, and the integration toggles - and a master Chat Messages switch makes the addon fully silent if you want it.
Where to start#
- New to the addon? Start with the Quickstart.
- Want the full reference? Browse the Documentation.
- Every slash command is in the Commands Reference.