Baggy McBaggerbag would be fine, too
by Mike Schramm 
Jun 6th 2007 at 2:00PM
Hot on the heels of that trinket chain suggestion from the other day, I've got another easily-implementable suggestion for inventory management: I want to name my bags.Not necessarily "Jonah" or "Sally" or "Tricia," although those are all very acceptable names for bags. No, I want to be able to label the bag that I keep all of my healing gear in my "Healing Gear Bag." And I want to label the bag that I keep all my quest items in "Quest Item Bag." Clear labels that help me organize exactly how things get laid out in my inventory.
Now, there's already a little bit of that going on-- "special" bags like Enchanting or Soul bags are already labeled, not to mention that you can't put anything in them that doesn't belong there. And obviously the same thing applies to quivers (Related: where on your bag bar do your hunters put your quivers? I always put mine just to the left of my backpack, but I just realized it didn't have to go there all the time).
But I want to put custom labels on all of my bags, so that if I happen to take a vacation (either out of town or to an alt), I can come back and know exactly what's where. There are lots of bag-related addons out there, and for all I know, one of them lets me do exactly this. But I'd like to see a nice and easy implementation in the normal interface.
Filed under: Items, Analysis / Opinion, Tricks, Odds and ends, Blizzard
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
krizoitz Jun 6th 2007 2:16PM
My quiver is on the far left of my bag bar, and yes i believer there are mods out there specifically for naming your bags.
kirrathjehrain Jun 6th 2007 2:18PM
This is one of the reasons Advanced Bags Plus (http://wow.curse-gaming.com/en/files/details/5305/advanced-bags-plus-2-0/) makes my list of Addons I Can't Live Without. The ability to order items in any way I want is invaluable. Currently, I have them divided into Equipment, Quest Items, Food/Drinks/Pots, Tailoring, Skins, Soulbound, and Soul Shards. I've got even more when my bank's open, including ones for my pvp marks and gems.
Lori Jun 6th 2007 2:22PM
Stupid idea. I don't have enough of one type of items to fill 18 slot bags. So what would happen is a quest item bag ( for example) would end up with pots and then some other items, and it would all go down hill. I keep some semblence of segretation to my bags now with stuff I carry around all the time in bag 0. When I was raiding pots went in bag 1. Mats go in 2, sometimes. But it is so dynamic that naming bags just wouldn't work for me.
Some addons like Baggins sort the stuff for you when you open your bags ans this is sufficient, IMO.
My shard bag and quiver are leftmost for my lock and hunter, respectively. I use macros to open bags so I don't open them when I don't need to see those contents.
Corrodias Jun 6th 2007 2:31PM
Don't be so afraid of addons. They're not the Devil's Juice.
Nadiar Jun 6th 2007 3:14PM
They already make a mod that does this, its called SanityBags.
http://www.wowace.com/forums/index.php?topic=5805.0
Its still in Beta, so its a little buggy, but with more people using it and giving feedback, maybe it can get some more loving.
Aldrel Jun 6th 2007 2:48PM
ArkInventory does this nicely now. Great Add-On
Pingmeister Jun 6th 2007 2:53PM
I love this idea.
I am a sorter at heart and I am regularly reshuffling my loot.
I would love to know which bag I had my food in rather than opening 3 bags to find it.
Chip Jun 6th 2007 2:55PM
I use vBagnon to consolidate all my bags into one giant bag. Some people don't like this system, but I find it much better than trying to remember which bag is which. Plus, vBagnon gives you several item categories which you can mouse over to highlight items of that category.
There are a number of inventory management addons that will allow you to name your bags or consolidate them or sort them or almost anything you can think of. Bliz has a finite number of man-hours in a week to devote to game coding. I think they've been very wise in spending those hours fixing bugs and adding new content rather than adding numerous features that 1. may or may not be desirable to many players and 2. are readily available from 3rd party mod developers for free.
bob Jun 6th 2007 2:58PM
i think "big blue sack" is a perfectly acceptable name for a bag.
i also got a laugh when i filled it with soul shards and necrosis said "your big blue sack is full!"
good to know, necrosis, good to know
Joe Jun 6th 2007 3:00PM
I like tBag myself.
Give me tBag, EquipCompare and a coordinate add-on and I'm happy. (used to like GoGoMount but it's not needed anymore)
Addie Jun 6th 2007 3:03PM
I learned about TBag (The "t" stands for "total" *nods*) from a WoWinsider Addon spotlight. It's one big bag but it organizes the way you see your stuff - it clusters things together. It's very customizable... I didn't have any problem convincing it that my Pet Rock was a non-combat pet and not vendor trash. *giggles*
My actual bags are a giant mess now... but if I resist the urge to look at them individually it's all good.
Addie Jun 6th 2007 3:06PM
p.s. Item Rack will help you manage your trinkets - really easy too.
Baluki Jun 6th 2007 3:29PM
I've been using Advanced Bags Plus for as long as I can remember (that doesn't say a whole lot about my memory, does it), and if I could only use one addon, it would be ABP.
It kinda sets up "virtual" bags that can be any size, and you determine what is displayed in them. It's really easy to have a bag that ONLY shows all your Herbs, or a bag that contains all your quest items, or one that has all your non-soulbound engineering gear, or whatever.
You can name your bags whatever you want, and even better: you can customize their icons. And you can have as many bags as you want (since they're virtual). It doesn't mess with your original bags at all.
Dracula Jones Jun 6th 2007 3:39PM
I'd like to get a decent bag mod, but there are so god damned many of them. Do they all basically do the same thing? Anybody have experience with using multiple mods that can recommend one over the others?
brett Jun 6th 2007 3:42PM
Ace addon Baggins will automagically organize all your stuff by predfiend, but tweakable, categories.
Erica Olson Jun 6th 2007 3:41PM
Personally, I think they should give you a free "virtual bag" for all the quest items you have to drag around. Why should I have to waste my bag slots for the umpteen items that NPCs want me to gather and bring them.
If not, then they could at least make them all stack in one slot. Yep would have made some of the quests easier. "Bring me 15 of this," says lazy NPC. Only to find the stupid thing only stacks in 10s.
Jason McLeod Jun 6th 2007 4:42PM
Got to be TBag, especially if you fix the TBank.xml so that it handles cool down items in your bank properly.
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Hornface Jun 6th 2007 4:52PM
I wholeheartedly recommend Baggins. It's not perfect (the configuration UI sometimes freezes unexpectedly and requires a /reloadui) but it's really, really good. It lets you create rule-based "virtual bags." For example, I have a "goods" bag that contains my herbs, leather and fish, all sorted by category and stacked. Meaning if I've got sixty of one type of fish, I only see one little icon with the number "60" on it, instead of three stacks.
I don't use it as a replacement for my default bag interface, but as an adjunct. The "b" hotkey shows my bags as usual, but "shift-b" shows my Baggins interface.
Works really well for me.
Hornface Jun 6th 2007 4:52PM
I wholeheartedly recommend Baggins. It's not perfect (the configuration UI sometimes freezes unexpectedly and requires a /reloadui) but it's really, really good. It lets you create rule-based "virtual bags." For example, I have a "goods" bag that contains my herbs, leather and fish, all sorted by category and stacked. Meaning if I've got sixty of one type of fish, I only see one little icon with the number "60" on it, instead of three stacks.
I don't use it as a replacement for my default bag interface, but as an adjunct. The "b" hotkey shows my bags as usual, but "shift-b" shows my Baggins interface.
Works really well for me.
Oldbear Jun 6th 2007 5:48PM
I use Bagnons; it makes your bags one big bag - with controls for sizing and spacing - plus it tracks same items in your bank... and your alts bags and banks. A great add-on for an Alt-a-holic.