Need more bag space? It's a completely rhetorical question for most WoW players. Blizzard's tight rein on player bag space is a perfect example of what I only somewhat jokingly refer to as WoW's "relentless tuning." And nobody feels the pinch quite so strongly as professions addicts -- crafters whose bags are full of little bits of this and that for making, well, even more of this and that.Specialty bags to the rescue! Crafters have access to a whole host of beefier bags designed especially for holding crafting materials. These player-made bags do have some drawbacks. You can only carry one at a time on your person, and since they only hold profession-related items, they do cut down on the space you have for general inventory. You'll undoubtedly catch yourself snarling at the banker when tussling with the specifics of what items will and won't go into these bags -- but for all their prissy limitations, you'll come across some sweet surprises, too.
No discussion of specialty bags would be complete without a mention of player-made ammo bags and soul shard bags for warlocks, too. We'll include details on those containers at the end of this article.
Bags for the pros
Enchanting
Enchanting bags, made by tailors, come in 16-, 20-, 24- and 28-slot sizes. They hold enchanting dusts, essences, shards and crystals as well as enchanting rods and enchanting formulae. They will not hold elemental essences, wands, vials or oils.
- Enchanted Mageweave Pouch (16 slots) With its modest materials requirement, this pouch is cited by many players as providing the best bang for the buck of all enchanting bags.
- Enchanted Runecloth Bag (20 slots)
- Big Bag of Enchantment (24 slots)
- Spellfire Bag (28 slots)
Herbalism bags, also made by tailors, offer 12-, 20- and 24-slot sizes. Frustratingly, they do not hold vials. They'll hold a Blood Scythe, Night Dragon's Breath, Packet of Tharlendris Seeds, Morrowgrain, Whipper Root Tuber, Enriched Lasher Root and druid reagent seeds. They will not hold Evergreen Pouch, Heart of the Wild, Un'Goro Soil or Glowcap. And here's a nice bonus you'll appreciate: When you harvest an herb, it goes directly to your herbalism bag and not into one of your general inventory bags!
- Herb Pouch (12 slots) These green items are available from any herbalism supply vendors. Don't overpay on the Auction House!
- Cenarion Herb Bag (20 slots)
- Satchel of Cenarius (24 slots)
Engineering toolboxes hold 20 or 24 items, including explosives (except mines), engineering trinkets, parts, blasting powders, Fused Wiring, engineering tools (but not mining picks or hammers), Membership Cards and many other things created using the engineering skill. They will not hold things used in engineering such as ore, motes, gems and cloth.
- Heavy Toolbox (20 slots) Sold in Hellfire Peninsula and Terrokar Forest
- Fel Iron Toolbox (24 slots) Crafted by engineers.
Jewelcrafting pouches have 20 or 24 slots. As you would expect, they hold all sorts of gems -- and surprisingly, mage mana gems, too!
- Gem Pouch (20 slots) Sold in Hellfire Peninsula and Terrokar Forest
- Bag of Jewels (24 slots) Crafted by tailors.
Miners can choose from 20- or 28-slot sacks. These containers do not hold gems or motes.
- Mining Sack (20 slots) Sold in Hellfire Peninsula and Terrokar Forest
- Reinforced Mining Bag (28 slots) Crafted by leatherworkers.
Ammo bags
Stow your ammunition in a quiver (for arrows) or bandolier for bullets. Check with your friendly neighborhood leatherworker for a player-made pouch or quiver. And remember, if you store your equipped ammo in an ammo bag, you get a bonus to your rate of fire (10% for the smallest ammo pouch) -- and that equals higher ranged DPS!
Soul bags for warlocks
Shard bags give warlocks a consolidated place to store shards. These tailored bags automatically route shards as you create them, so you won't find shards scattered throughout the rest of your inventory. You'll see the number of shards inside a soul bag listed on the bag's icon on your container toolbar -- another handy advantage to helping you keep track of your shards. Soul bags unfortunately do not store healthstones or spellstones.
- Soul Pouch (20 slots)
- Felcloth Bag (24 slots)
- Core Felcloth Bag (28 slots) This one uses Molten Core materials, so the market's tough for these in the BC era.
- Ebon Shadowbag (28 slots)
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
6-08-2007 @ 11:49AM
Sylythn said...
Mining bags also won't hold the blacksmithing hammer or grinding stones (so keep things as raw stones until you need to use them).
Don't forget the Thrallmar vendor at the in - he sells profession bags. I made the mistake of crafting an Enchanted Runecloth bag for someone for a lot higher material cost than it would have cost to buy the 20-slot bag from the vendor.
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6-08-2007 @ 11:55AM
Hexar said...
I'm pretty sure that herb bags do in fact hold Glowcap.
They also hold Unidentified Plant Parts, which I unfortunately can no longer turn in for Cenarion Expedition rep; the blessing in disguise is that I can make a pretty penny selling them on the AH. Same goes for Firewing Signets (:
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6-08-2007 @ 12:13PM
Baluki said...
I don't know if you meant to, but you left out 2 smaller Soul Bags. There's the Small Soul Pouch (12-slot) and the Box of Souls (16-slot), both of which are warlock quest rewards (which may be why they were left out).
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6-08-2007 @ 12:15PM
SeiferTim said...
Warlocks also get a Soul Shard Bag for doing some of their quests. For instance, completing the quest to get the Felhunter will also get you a Box of Souls (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=22244), which I still have until I can locate a better bag for cheap.
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6-08-2007 @ 12:23PM
Erica Olson said...
So where's my skinning or leatherworking bag? That's what I want to know.
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6-08-2007 @ 12:44PM
Medros said...
I too am awaiting a LW or skinners bag, but as the 2 forms of leather, azerothian and Knothide, all can be 'upgraded' to the next higher one, I am not sure we will ever see one. Shame, really.
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6-08-2007 @ 12:55PM
goody24 said...
As a mage/JC i was happy to figure out that my mana gems automatically go into my gem bag.
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6-08-2007 @ 1:14PM
Wrenzo said...
@5 Agreed...where are they!? It's crazy that LWs can't make skinning bags at the very least.
Regarding the 20/24 slot engineering bags (or boxes), check the AH. On my server the 24 slot sells for MUCH cheaper than the 20 slot. The 24 slot is made to level up Eng and so gets dumped on the AH often.
Regarding the 28 slot Soul Shard bags. Many guilds now have an excess of those mats in the guild banks that are no longer needed for FR gear. Check with your bank officer to see if you can get the mats to have the 28 slot bag made for much cheaper than the newer one's mats!
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6-08-2007 @ 1:22PM
Hank said...
Of course, the only 24-slot herb bag requires rep with a faction no one grinds anymore.
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6-08-2007 @ 1:48PM
Chris Anthony said...
@2, herb bags do hold Glowcap, as evidenced by the Glowcap in my herb bag. :)
-Chris Anthony
http://www.etherjammer.com/blog/
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6-08-2007 @ 2:29PM
Lisa Poisso said...
Thanks for all the new feedback and details you've all added! It's hard to find complete, accurate information on what bags are available for each profession and what they will and will not hold. And I too was completely taken aback that skinners are completely left out in the cold, especially since leatherworkers can make profession bags for miners!
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6-08-2007 @ 5:51PM
RogueJedi86 said...
Herbalists are kinda left in the dirt too. The 20 and 24 slot herbalism bags requires faction with a Cenarion faction that no one grinds anymore, the Cenarion Circle group in Silithus. Most people go to Outland at 58, so Silithus is deserted. If you can find the 20 or 24 slot Herb bag on AH, get it! They're very rare.
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6-08-2007 @ 5:54PM
Thumpah said...
--/Agree, need Skinning and or LW bags... Well at least I have an 18 slot quiver... Hunters who skin and LW are at a disadavantage having already lost a bag slot to a quiver.
-- Also, Blizz how about some huge 28+ slot food/drink/potion bags. Who really wants to put boar intestines or basilisk brains in with lunch and that mid-instance snack?
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6-08-2007 @ 6:28PM
twh said...
You know what would be nice?
A "Soulbound" bag for those of us that need more than one set of armor. :/ That takes up more space than you realize.
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6-09-2007 @ 12:47AM
Spiritfire said...
Personally I think a soul shard bag is useless. Instead of giving us a token gesture of a bag for our soul shards, why don't Blizz just let our shards stack like we've been begging for since beta???
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6-09-2007 @ 7:15AM
Savok said...
Because that would make Warlocks the only class to not have bag space taken up with required crap.
Hunter - ammo
Paladin - up to 3 sets of gear depending on spec
Druid - up to 4 sets of gear depending on spec
Warrior - DPS and tank set
Rogue - poisons and other reagents/tools
Priest - DPS and healing set
Shaman - DPS and healing set
Mage - reagents for spells and assorted conjured things
And of course
Warlock - soul shards
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6-09-2007 @ 7:17AM
Savok said...
Also Glowcaps do go into the herb bags, that's where my Glowcaps are anyway.
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6-09-2007 @ 11:31AM
Hone Melgren said...
@16 ... As a mage I carry around 20 Arcane Powder , 20 of both types of rune (for both personal teleporting and group teleporting) as well as 35 Mana Pots ....All of these items stack....
A rogue's poisons and whatnot stack as well . To my knowledge I do not know of any other class whos _reagants_ do not stack other than warlocks. Having played a Warlock a soulstone is an essential reagant for us. Having them not stack makes no sense at all.
Thats REAGANTS btw not equipment
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6-10-2007 @ 1:59AM
Savok said...
How many varieties of soul shards are there?
Now how many varieties of poisons are there?
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6-11-2007 @ 12:56PM
Juliah said...
Y'know, Warcraft _is_ pretty tight-fisted about bag space, and I'm just not sure why. Making a bank alt doesn't quite work for me because I have one of each class and I play them all on the same server.
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