Overview
In July of 2009, the account of "Bazz", the guildleader of Fusion, was hacked.
Despite him being incredibly paranoid, using Firefox, noscript, never sharing his password, etc., they still found a way in. No matter how paranoid you are, they're still out to get you.
As the Fusion guild leader, he had absolutely everything. Fusion supplies all repairs, consumables, gems, and enchants for a guild of 30-35 progression raiders.
Nine days later his account was restored through the work of a *very* patient character specialist (who said in an email that he also raids with a top guild and understands what the guild went through losing our entire bank.) We decided to record what it was for posterity -- we were even surprised by the totals!
Audience
No matter who you are, this is the important lesson: "Despite him being incredibly paranoid, using Firefox, noscript, never sharing his password, etc., they still found a way in."
Bazz wasn't dumb other than that authenticators had been sold out for the past 6+ months.
Get an authenticator, Blizzard is stocking them better these days. No matter how careful you are, you're not careful enough.
Guide
We don't usually bother to inventory what we have, we just go by a gut of how much is "too much" to store, and we buy multiple times a day from the AH and trade channel whenever we find herbs "sufficiently cheaply."
We've also bought up the supplies of raiders who have quit.
Screenshots of the recovered supplies. No bank panes are duplicated.
We freely use both auction houses when supplies are low. For example, in order to get our Fish Feast hoard, we had to buy almost all of them on our alliance AH -- which meant moving epics cross-faction to sell them to have the cash to buy fish and herbs to then transfer back to the horde side.
I skipped things like 3-4 stacks of each color of gem, miscellaneous other food items, other potions, eternals, saronite, etc. -- lots of little stuff. But the big totals are below.
It's fun knowing things like the fact that we have over 4,000 vials of pygmy oil! And over 12,000 lichbloom (over 600 stacks.)
There was about 300,000 gold stolen.
Totaling up the market prices below (based on Turalyon's AH, the only prices I have easy access to), they also netted an additional 240,000 gold worth of goods.
The embedded screenshot is a little small. If you don't mind the wait, you can view the 4MB version of the "banks" screenshot.
Bazz used to store everything on his characters plus two 4-tab guild banks (in addition to the main Fusion guild bank with 6 tabs) - mostly he bounced it back and forth in the mail.
Since the hacking we've opened up two more alt banks and bought them all to a full 6-tabs to make it easier to handle the sheer raw goods associated with running Fusion and make it easier for other officers to help with refreshing consumables.
Herbs
Frost Lotus: 1,302 at 40g each: 52,800 gold
Black Lotus: 118 at 10g each: 1,118 gold
Goldclover: 13,120 at 21g/stack: 13,776 gold
Icethorn: 6,720 at 24g/stack: 8,064 gold
Lichbloom: 12,180 at 40g/stack: 24,360 gold
Potions and Flasks
Mana Potion Injectors: 43 injectors at 79g each: 3,397 gold
Potion of Speed: 207 at 22g each: 902 gold
Flask of the Frost Wyrm: 630 at 33g each: 20,790 gold
Flask of Endless Rage: 394 at 32g each: 12,608 gold
Flask of Stoneblood: 264 at 36g each: 9,504 gold
Enchanting and Orbs
Infinite Dust: 2120 at 3.8g each: 8,056 gold
Greater Cosmic Essence: 590 at 9.7g each: 5,723 gold
Abyss Crystal: 300 at 95g each: 28,500 gold
Runed Orb: 28 at 800g each: 22,400 gold
Food
Fish Feasts: 1400 at 15.2g each: 21,280 gold
Nettlefish: 1060 at 2.7g each: 2,862 gold
Glacial Salmon: 760 at 1.4g each: 1,064 gold
Pygmy Oil: 4,620 at 0.22g each: 1,016 gold
Oh ok. That explains it.
And thanks for all your guides and articles. Had a lot of fun readying some of them yesterday!
Hei Kyth, good read. Way to less reads on this article though!
Article author
It was just migrated from the old stratfu to the new one 8 hours ago :). All the old 'read' counts were lost (I don't even think they were tracked frankly.)
The good news is, older articles are a lot more findable and accessible in this system, so I feel a lot more motivated to write more -- and I'm hoping other authors will be too!