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Segment #11: Free Refills
Last week on WoWphiles, Jason mentioned Anea’s blog post entitled “I am not your heal bitch” in which Anea justly complained about players not preparing for random dungeon crawls by stocking up on food beforehand.

There’s no excuse for it. Seriously. Even if you can’t cook, you can buy food items from vendors in every city, town, and 1-shack settlement all over Azeroth, Outland, and Northrend, and you don’t even have to think about restocking; get the FreeRefills add-on and spend fifteen seconds setting it up.

FreeRefills does not, as the name imply, make your goods free of cost, but it does make stocking up free of the need to think about it. Here’s how, in easy step-by-step form:
Open the vendor window where you will buy whatever it is you need.
Open the chatline and type “/fr addstack” and then shift-click on the item you want to keep stocked, followed by the quantity of stacks you want to always have on-hand.
Hit “enter.”
Done! FreeRefills will now, every time you open a vendor window, check to see how much of your items you have, and if it is below your desired quantity, buy enough to refill your supplies. If, however, the vendor sells in stacks of 5 and you have, say, 57 and want to keep 60 on hand, FreeRefills won’t buy any, thus avoiding the problem of bags full of consumables in excess of the number you really want.
If, in the future, you no longer need the item in question, you can just use the same “/fr addstack [item]” with a quantity of zero.

FreeRefills will also restock out of your bank. This can be turned off, although I can’t see why I would ever do that. One terrific way to make use of this feature is to keep potions that you use a lot of stacked high and deep in your bank, but only carry the one or two stacks you expect to use in an instance. Then when Auction House prices are low for your potions/scrolls/flasks/beverage-of-choice you can stock up and refill the bank.

FreeRefills will work with anything sold by vendors; candles, food, drink, Arcane Powder – anything at all. And it’s excellent for keeping your lower-than-raiding-level toons stocked up so you don’t find yourself low on health, out of food, out of water, out of bandages, and having to run through a gauntlet of Fel Orcs to get to the nearest friendly town without at least filling up your health (and mana, if you use mana).

So, in summary, FreeRefills can help you stay alive, help your healer keep you alive, and make other players think you’re more courteous than you really are, because you always show up with food, drink, and reagents.

You can get FreeRefills from Curse.
Music for this week’s segment is from FreeplayMusic.com and is entitled “Just Enough” by Stephen A. Love and Scott P. Schreer.

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