Convenience features

Social lists

This is partially already covered by several 3rd party addons, but a shared social list wouldn't hurt:

• Players not only get their own friends/ignore lists, but those of their other characters as well (beyond befriending Blizzard game tags): from now on, they'll have the same people befriended and ignored regardless of character.
• While it makes sense that people aren't able to automatically befriend an entire account without that person's approval, ignoring other players should be made easier. For starters, if someone ignores a player, it should be possible to ignore the entire account. People don't get any additional information about ignored players (like with which character some ignored person is online, or which characters belong to which account etc.) - they just automatically ignore him/her. Also, this should include auctioning: if someone ignores somebody else, it should be possible to ban that person from bidding on one's own auctions.

Offline availability

The idea behind this is to enable players to profit from a character in one way or another even if that character isn't logged in at that particular moment.

•  A player is able to use that character's non-gathering professions to craft BoE-items or consumables as long as the player has free access to these materials (meaning: they would have to be BoE and be in the inventory or bank of any character from the same faction on that server). This could also be extended to apply to guild members as well (who would be required to have the crafting materials in their own inventory for this).
• A character is able be used as a henchman. That character works just like a follower, the difference being that he should be considerably more powerful. Additional options would be that this character could also use secondary professions (i.e. harvest crafting materials while he's with the player). Whether the following option should only be available at max level or before that point is up to debate.

Gold/Item/Auction pool:

All characters on an individual account get access to a (for lack of a better word) "account treasury".

•  A chest similar to the guild treasury (or the chest in Diablo 3) and enables storing (unbound) BoE and BoA-items for all characters on a server.
• Furthermore, all characters on one server have a shared purse (we already can sent gold from one character to another without delay, so why don't skip that step?)
• They also have a shared bidding tab for auctioning.