For quite awhile I have noticed the same people have been flooding the Auction House with Hexweave bags, and I was wondering how they even do it. My own production rate is about .6 bags per day per character. I currently have 3 toons making bags, so that is like 2 bags per day. But I’ve seen people dumping several dozen bags at a time at a low price. And I have seen the same people do it over and over.
I know you can make bags using primal weaving, and I do that myself sometimes, but it is a very costly way to make bags. Does anyone have any real insight on how other players can list dozens and dozens of bags at a time. Yeah, they may have more toons, but still. Recently, I noticed somebody listing like 60-70 bags all at once at a low price (and they’ve done that before). I was just wondering how this is even reasonably possible.
Variety of reasons it could happen. Perhaps they stocked up for a previous expansion, started BfA before leveling to 120 and just now returning to the game, bought out a bunch of stock on the AH and decided to tank the prices, etc… Also, are you sure they aren’t just listing the same 60-70 bags over and over?
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It’s the same people, and they dump at a low price. There must be some way they are able to do this, I am just having difficulty figuring out how.
You make it sound like there is some scam going on. There likely isn’t, they just have made and not sold a lot of bags in the last 3 expansions. Or they bought a lot of bags thinking prices would increase and they are tired of waiting. Or they just returned to the game and are cleaning out their banks. Or they…
Other than the previous scenarios here are the likely reason(s).
First, someone with multiple garrisons ( I have 8) doing full herb, ore, missions and tables like before. Then they extra farm the fur, buy dirt cheap any herbs, buy dirt cheap sorcerous to transmute to earth, trade resources for fur at vendor. Final step: spam the garrison traders for primal spirit to do primal weaving. They need 50 primal spirit to make 1 bag so 500 of any type of cheap worthless herb. Cheap worthless herbs sell for a gold or less for 1 on the ah. 500g herb will make a bag they sell for 1k to 1500 hence profit
*** keep in mind they don’t mind farming the fur which can be farmed at 2000 or so per hour so 1 hour can net them enough for 4 bags.
Not efficient as far as gold making but for some it is all they know unless they are just using a bot to farm the furs.
The bag prices on my server are about 1000g right now, which makes the price of primal spirits and primal weaving very important. I was wondering about people farming a bunch of sumptuous fur, there used to be a spot in Nagrand that was advertised by gold bloggers, but I think it was nerfed. Farming fur legally is very boring. I used to do this some at a place in Talador near the Horde camp, but I would get bored after farming a hundred or so. As far as bots farming, I was wondering about this. I have heard that people use bots to farm a bunch of other things (like spirits of harmony).
I am a bit shocked that you are doing 8 garrisons. I only have 3 right now, and even then I find the daily tasks so boring. I used to have more toons (in the level 103-104 range) but got rid of them because the scaling messed up direfang alphas in Nagrand for barns, and now you need to be level 109-110 to farm them effectively.
You are shocked they are doing 8 garrisons,I have 13,I keep the resources rolling to buy fur,I do the missions for Rush orders,and I have a lot of Rush orders that I have saved up.Maybe the others are doing this?
Maybe they are, but maybe they are using bots to gather sumptuous fur. When I checked sumptuous fur, one person was selling hundreds of stacks of 200. Now even with 13 garrisons, that is .6 x 13 or about 8 bags a day. So when I see somebody list several dozen bags every few days for the past several months, yeah, I get a little suspicious. I can’t prove that botting is going on, but I am not going to be naïve enough and say that people would never bot for sumptuous fur.
My daily garrison chores include getting stuff from my barn, selling savage blood to the trader, getting stuff from my tailoring emporium, doing the tailoring daily. With extra resources I do rush orders for my barn. It’s boring enough doing this on 3 toons. I cannot image doing it on 13 toons, franky. Of course, if you are not running a barn that would probably make it quicker.
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I would guess they just have a bunch of bags and relist them every few days. I wouldn’t be surprised if you checked the seller on Undermine Journal and found they have a bunch of junk for sale. Some people just play to make gold.
As for the Fur, I recently bought over 1000 Sumptuous fur using the daily trader at the trading post. I did missions at the mission table for resources and waited for the price to drop to 16. I just did it once because I’m only feeding one tailor. But if I was dedicated to it, I could have a lot more.
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this is what I do for fur too. My main has a lot of extreme scavengers and whenever I remember to run missions and get close to the cap I buy like 600 fur or something and send it to a crafter. My tailor currently has 3k fur and is limited primarily by the need to turn it into hexweave. I hadn’t thought about using the fur trader to get primals to bypass the cooldown, though; thanks for that thought 
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How low a price? This sounds like people who buy up every bag that is below one price, then re-list them at a higher price…over and over.
On my realm, I won’t sell bags for less than 1000g each but 4 days out of 5, I see 20 to 50 bags listed for less – sometimes as low as 850. So maybe someone on your server is buying everything less than 1000 and selling them in bulk for 1100.
I recently started making hexweave bags again – on 10 tailors. In theory I can make 132 bags each 30 days. I’m not sure if I’ve made that many yet.
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A few days ago someone advertised that they had 70 bags in the ah for 699g each.I bought them all and resold at 1k.
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Hexweave bags and garrisons were one of the great mistakes of the game. In retrospect, they should have been 20 slot bags, but way too late for that now.
Um, No? The 30-slot bags from WoD were the next iteration of bag slots, 28-being the best you could get in Mists. To make the best bag in WoD a 20-slot bag is completely stupid and would have just forced players to continue farming cloth in Pandaria for 28-slot bags.
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How so? Since you think they should have been smaller presumably you think either that they’re too big or that they’re too desirable. But they’re not much bigger than what was already available, so I have to assume you think there was too much demand for them, and I’m failing to see how that’s a big problem…
Neither… they are too easy to make.
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Yea but that’s not sustainable assuming unlimited expansions and a cap of 36, which Blizz seems unwilling to break. Container size should be based on difficulty of construction, not what expansion it came from.
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Yep, I did the same and I made 12 bags for 15 toons and I still have 30+ bags in a guild storage bank. I got bored of making the bags so I stopped but I have enough mats to make another2-3 dozen right now and could get more with doing garrisons again.
If you have a barn, are regular with your fur, have a tailoring follower, garrison often enough to constantly get the rush orders from your mission table, and farm for primal spirits, churning out bags is “easy”, and getting several at a time to flood the market with not much of a challenge.
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Really? Because in my 2 auction houses dozens are sold every day – at 1,000g on one realm, at 1,700g on the other realm. I think things that are “easy to make” sell for much less than 1,000g.
Today I saw 61 of them at 970g, and a few below that. I was tempted, but the AH takes 5% of your profit, so I might have to struggle just to break even (to make back the 970 I bought them at), so I didn’t buy them.
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