New bags in WoW

I gained 8 bank slots each, for Raslebol and Kyroc, by replacing two standard 16-slot bags in the bank by two 20-slot specialized bags, which are new to patch 1.10. For Kyroc these are bags holding enchanting materials. Getting those was easy, I was able to freely buy the bag recipes in Silithus at the enchanting supplier. He had recipes for 16-slot and 20-slot enchanting bags. Making the 20-slot bags was easy too, a couple of runecloth, 2 greater eternal essence, some rune thread and I had the bags made. The auction house is already full of these 20-slot bags, at between 15 and 20 gold apiece.

I don't know why Blizzard hates herbalists, but the herbalist bags are much harder to get. The recipes are also available in Silithus, but from the general goods vendor. Again two bag sizes available, 20-slot and 24-slot. But you can buy the smaller recipe only with friendly Cenarion Circle faction, and for the bigger bags you need the very hard to get revered faction status. Result is that there no herb bags in the AH most of the time, and when I finally found two of the smaller ones, I had to pay 36 gold pieces each. If there is any tailor with revered CC faction, he could make a fortune selling the 24-slot bags.

Intriguingly in the AH there is now also a category for "engineering bags", although I haven't seen any recipes for those yet. I'm not sure if they already exist, or will be patched in later. Furthermore there is a principal problem with making engineering material bags, in that it is very badly defined what *is* an engineering material. For alchemy and enchanting the bags hold raw materials, which are clearly used only for that purpose. But my engineer has his bank full of metal bars, stones, gems, cloth, and leather, because all these materials are used for making engineering items. An engineers bag which would only hold intermediate engineering goods, like unstable trigger or blasting powders, would be not very useful.
- posted by Tobold @ 8:22 AM Permanent Link