Waite's Favorite Gear Changing Aliases

This gear changing system uses one bag for each different set of gear you would like to be able to switch between (typically hit, tank, and mana), plus one additional "junk" bag. Here is a brief rundown of how the system works:

1. Put any random gear in your inventory into your junk bag
2. Remove your current set of gear and put it in the appropriate bag
3. Get the desired set of gear out of its bag and wear all

Benefits of using this system

• Because you're using "get all" and "wear all", you don't need to switch your aliases every time you get a new piece of gear
• You don't have to etch each individual piece of gear
• Any random gear you collect is automatically dumped into your junk bag, keeping your inventory clean and tidy

Drawbacks of using this system

• You have to have an alias for each possible set switch. For example, you can't just have a single alias "managear" that will put you into mana gear. Instead, you need an alias to swap from tank to mana, and another alias to swap from hit to mana.

• Because these aliases use "put all", there's a chance that one of the bags containing a set of gear will end up in the junk bag. Therefore, your aliases need to be able to handle this situation, making them a little more complex than the outline described above.

• If you type the wrong gear alias, then one of your sets of gear may end up in the wrong bag. This, however, is an easy problem to solve (see below)

Example Aliases

Suppose you have four bags, named "tank", "mana", "hitgear", and "junk". The following server-side aliases will implement this method of gear switching:

 alias tankmana       put all junk:get hitgear junk:get tank junk:get mana junk:rem all:
 put all tank:get junk tank:get mana tank:get hitgear tank:get all mana:wear all

 alias tankhit        put all junk:get hitgear junk:get tank junk:get mana junk:rem all:
 put all tank:get junk tank:get mana tank:get hitgear tank:get all hitgear:wear all

 alias manatank       put all junk:get hitgear junk:get tank junk:get mana junk:rem all:
 put all mana:get junk mana:get tank mana:get hitgear mana:get all tank:wear all

 alias manahit       put all junk:get hitgear junk:get tank junk:get mana junk:rem all:
 put all mana:get junk mana:get tank mana:get hitgear mana:get all hit:wear all

 alias hittank        put all junk:get hitgear junk:get tank junk:get mana junk:rem all:
 put all hit:get junk hit:get mana hit:get tank hit:get all tank:wear all

 alias hitmana        put all junk:get hitgear junk:get tank junk:get mana junk:rem all:
 put all hitgear:get junk hitgear:get tank hitgear:get mana hitgear:get all mana:wear all

Level gear is also a snap. Just etch each piece of level gear "level", and stow it in your junk bag. Then, use the following two aliases to switch in and out of level gear:

 alias lvlgear        get all.level junk:rem all:wear all.level:wear all
 alias lvloff         rem all.level:put all.level junk:wear all

If you type the wrong alias a set of your gear may end up in the wrong bag. For example, if you are current in tank gear, and you type "manatank", all your tank gear will end up in your mana gear bag, and you'll be naked. Fortunately this is not a hard problem to solve. In this example, just type "get 1. mana" until you get all your tank gear out of the wrong bag.