I seem to be in constant battle of find enough bag space, and it's just not fun!

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Now I like to think that I am pretty organised with what I carry around. But there’s a few items to you need to carry around day to day in WoW such as, Hearthstones, Legendaries, Alternative bits of armor you don’t want to delete as they might be worth something.

You then carry around some useful professional goods. Some buff food, oil, fun things like Evolving Mushrooms, a few quest/achievement items here and there, some pet tokens, marks of honor, a few covenant conduits you picked up when you quickly switched covenants but then switched back.

But whenever I go out to do my dailies, callings to whatever I seem to be constantly running out of space. It seems that every time you add a new patch, you add between 5 and 10 or more currency items that make up space in your bag… such as Anima, catalogued research, covenant game items. And then throw it all together with the junk we pick up from the Love Is In the Air event (perfumes and what not)

Is it all really necessary?

Don’t get me wrong. I appreciate that we need to have a limit to our bag space, and we should have some consideration to what we are carrying. But not being able to go out and quest for 30mins without have to go and drop off my anima or catalogued research or vendor my junk isn’t really the kind of challenge I expect from playing this game, it kinda just annoying.

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You don’t need a hearthstone, can use one of the many toys. Granted, there’s the Dalaran HS and the Garrison hearthstones, but… how often do you even use those?

Just bank 'em? There’s little reason to carry around more than what you have equipped. Whenever you do something that absolutely requires a different one, you can just go to Oribos and pick out the appropriate gearset.

Bank 'em.

Bank 'em.

Bank 'em.

Deposit it, maybe? If you deposit once a day, it won’t take much bags pace at all.

See “Anima” above.

Bank 'em. You only need them when you’re doing the covenant game - if you do it at all. You can even delete them if you don’t.

How much stuff are you even carrying in your bags, and are you using 8 slot bags or something?

I carry 4 sets of armor (granted, with some overlap), two stacks of feasts, oils, runes, flasks, invis pots, engi res items, and a bunch of other stuff. Never had any bagspace issues. Mind you, when I finish a calling, I just hop on my vendor mount and sell junk, so I’m not carrying useless stuff around for days. Likewise, any materials and whatnot I obtain from my tables or whatever, I mail it to my banker at the nearest mailbox, takes like 3 seconds.

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I have 32 slot bags in all slots.

You can say “Bank 'em”, “Bank 'em”, “Bank 'em”, but that means going back and forth from my bank which is even more time consuming when the base of operations is in my Covenant Sanctum.

Also, when you’re carrying 4 sets of armor, I don’t think carrying an extra 4 pieces of armor and maybe 1 extra legendary is comparable.

And what do you think I do with Catalogued research and Anima… it’s gets deposited as soon as I’m finished with what I’m doing.

I don’t carry useless junk either. I carry stuff I use and I vendor after each calling. I’m generally pretty organised with my bags and know what I’m carrying around.

But there seems to be so much extra junk we pick up, which even though we end up depositing (i.e anima and catalogued research) it takes up bag space.

My point is, the struggle for Bag space should never be feel like a problem, if you’re aware of what you’re carrying. It’s an artificial challenge created by Blizzard because they don’t have the imagination to come up with a worthwhile challenge.

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Offtopic: when seeing this topic, it was misleading because I saw this…

I seem to be in constant battle of find…
Happiness

Me too, friend, me too. Where is the ultimate happiness, I wonder? :cry:

Now on topic, of the many things you listed, leaving Pet Charms and some of these currencies, along with crafting reagents in the bank, are safe. Those don’t have to be kept on person to be used anywhere.

I use only a few offpieces, namely so I could swap leggoes (so say, I do have this purple helm for Holy spec, and the leggo helm for Shadow, or a leggo robe for Disc and a regular one for the other two specs).
Other than that?

This above is more than enough, maybe augment runes if any. Only my backpack is filled, and with 4x 30 slotters and my yak I never have space problems.

I hope this helped!

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Yes. Because that’s the answer.

And make a Banker alt to hold any account-wide currencies and anything else you don’t immediately need.

Seriously, we’ve done this before here, and we can do it again now: post a picture of your bags and bank, and our expert forum Marie Kondos will tell you how to make your bags so they spark joy!

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Mate, I have a banking alt just to carry excess Battle Pets I get from completing Paragon chests.

I have 4 active bankers. 2 of which are active auction mules.

As I say, I’m pretty organised with what I carry around with me and what I store. I’m just saying that there is alot of excess things we are given which can be cut back on by Blizzard.

Granted if I completely ignored my bangs, then space should feel like a problem. But I don’t and I keep them organised, yet, here I am constantly being told “I’ve run out of bag space”… I’d hate to be a player that’s not organised.

Yes, I have in the past put these things in my bank, but for various reason they come out.

Yes, but my crafting reagent slots are filled with old world Crafting items and are overflowing. I even have additional bankers holding these. I will use them one day.

Also, I’m very active in crafting professionals and auctioning. So carrying around these materials is a thing, as as soon as I have enough items to craft something which sells (or there’s demand for something) it is usually crafted and sent to my AH mule for sale. So banking these items really makes no sense.

There’s alot of buying and selling going on, and moving these items in and out of a bank constantly throughout the day would just stop me from being able to be out in the world playing aswell.

And when the base of operations is the Covenant Sanctum where there is no access to a bank, it’s a little more time consuming to be running back and forth to the cities. If anything, the game needs to also be more conscious of wasted time as there seems to be alot in Shadowlands.

It’s not a challenge I wan’t to be thinking about constantly. It’s just not a fun challenge.

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Thing is, I’m not particularly organised and I rarely have more than two or three slots free unless I can work up the enthuses to clear some specifically.
IRL I’m doing a clear out and in the last few days I’ve thrown out a bunch of Yellow Pages and Phone Books (still in their cling film) which have been sitting on a shelf for years, unused (when’s the last time you looked up a number in a phone book?).

The game has gone bananas with crafting reagents in the last few expansions. Used to be there was a couple of types of ore, a few herbs and two or three types of leather. Now we have pixie dust, faerie wings, broken teeth, newt’s eyes, a dozen types of leather. And this is before we get to the separate systems like Mechagon Engineering.
I am fearing this new mount and pet crafting system in Zerith Mortis, if I manage to clear a couple of dozen bag slots will they last me more than ten minutes?

Professions need to be simplified. It’s not adding any fun to the game to be crafting a pair of boots using one type of leather or with three types of leather, some teeth, some faerie wings and two types of gem stone. Both involve clicking a Create button.
We need a vastly bigger Resource Bank tab, mine has been full since BFA.

We don’t need bigger bags, I’m fine with the 30ish slot bags we have just now. We just need less crap filling them up.

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I agree with most replies but it would be nice to have a way to store alternative gear sets that you carry tbf

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No, it’s an artificial limit imposed by the genre upon which the game is based.

Plus there is plenty of bag space if you are not constantly carrying around stuff that you don use.

Why are you carrying around alternative bits of armour that might be worth something in your own words? Surely if it is worth something then vendor it or leave it in the bank until that moment when it might be useful.

You say it is a waste of time to have to go to the bank when you need to dig something out but surely you are wasting more time by having fuller bags that you need to empty more often than is taken up by going to the bank once in a blue moon to change something out.

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Agreed, Although I’m not so much about just professions.

Its the 100 different types of anima, the 6 or 7 (or more) different types of Catalogue-Research you pick up. It soon fills your bags up when you’re out questing.

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I frequently use the Dalaran HS as the pet shop transfers to various parts of the WoW universe are a lot quicker than fiddling around going to Oribos and remembering where the SW portal is before you even start walking up and down the SW portals trying to remember where the one you want is.

As for bank 'em, I’d love to. But my bank is full, mostly of rare stuff that I hope to be able to sell when/if we ever get joined to another realm so there’s a bigger market.

I’ve been doing some old raids over the last couple of weeks trying to get the pet drops (they still don’t drop for me :cry:); my bags are full after 3 or 4 bosses and I have no way to sell the soulbound stuff mid-raid.

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But the point is, I do use it.

Sure there are a few items, that we pick up if we run a TW dungeon or old raid, which might sit in the bags for a while, but they get cleared out.

Because that ring you pick up, might be better on one week than the other. Or might compliment one set up over the other, or might be better for Frost over Fire. And sometimes you just want to experiment and switch things around because… why not?

If it sits in the bank, it will get forgotten about over time and take up even more space.

No, it’s definitely less time consuming to mount up and vendor any greys you have. Or run to the Catalogue-Research/Anima deposit. The bank in Shadowlands is well out of the way of the base of operations. Had to make the decision over Oribos or Heart of the Forest, and it makes more sense to remain there.

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Me too, trying to get the Twillight Clutch Sister for a battle in Argus which almost every strat seems to use.
I only pick up items that will add a transmog or a pet to my collections. My bags are just too full to take everything else. I just let the postmaster have it. I know I’m flushing tons of gold down the drain but I’m just not organised enough to keep bag clear.

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haha… and then we get to the problem of Overflowing Mail Boxes xD

Yeh that’s a thing :wink:

Usually I just DE everything and send it to one of my bankers for levelling Enchanting at a later day.

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And what’s worse is these are soulbound, so I can’t dump them into my guild bank, or send them to an alt to bank them.
More currencies / mats should be at least Account Bound if not just outright unbound.

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My gripe is that the stuff you vendor stays around so long so that you cant sell another batch quickly. noticable particularly when levelling

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How often do you need those items? The pet tokens, marks of honor, random gear that might be worth something? I honestly don’t see how you’d go back and forth for any of them, and will save up plenty of space - especially the random gear which don’t stack.

Use a bank alt with a personal guild bank for that, problem solved.

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(makes rueful face) OK, I actually admit I have two alts for that, so I have to acknowledge I’m in no position to lecture anything about it, but in my defence I do have to note that it’s not just covenant paragon pets.

Well, then, we have a more complex case than I first thought, but my answer is the same: what’s in your bags, and let’s go all Marie Kondo.

My mage is a pack-rat, and can’t leave the house without junk like a Swapblaster and Direbrew’s Remote and Blessed Medallion of Karabor and a Time-Lost Artifact and a Brazier of Awakening and a Falling Flame and a Seal-Breaker Key and a Potion of Phantom Fire and 10 Sleeping Armaments … and an Admiral’s Compass as well as a Garrison Hearthstone, and even a Dalaran Hearthstone (remember, this is my mage I’m talking about!).

Two of her bags are still 28-slot. Don’t ask. Despite all that, and still having some profession drops she really should have mailed to alts by now, she has 48 slots free.

The one disadvantage she hasn’t got is being something like a multi-spec Druid or Tank/Healer. She does have 22 slots of alternate gear, which is more than she really needs, though.

And she still has 48 slots free.

I know the annoyance of bags filling with junk in the zones, especially Korthia, but that’s what Yaks are for. And postboxes.

P…S.

What are you looking for? I can probably help, with something from one of my alts’ overloaded banks. They counttowards the achievement even if traded to you.

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Im actually at a point now where I am about to make a 2nd Pet Banker, as my Pet Banker mailbox has started to overflow because of all the Paragon Pets. Seriously, the amount you get is ridiculous.

If only there was a way to trade in unwanted pets in exchange for things… kind of like how the scrapper worked in BFA. How about about Pet Scrapper to turn pets into meats and leathers xD

Actually scanning through my bags on one toon I found 5 paragon pets. I couldn’t use them because I was already 3/3, and they’re BoP, so can’t sell them. Too time consuming to search for and Cage the pets, although I’ll probably end up doing that at some point.

The point of the matter above… too much pointless junk the game can do without.

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you seem like hoarder mate

just sell uselss junk you dont use - and yes this included usless junk from 5 expansions ago you keep for sentiment sake in your bank