I got a metric backside ton of items I don’t even know what they are for, I feel like this has been this way for a long time tho. Do we have just have a bloat of items?
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There are certainly a lot of things in WoW, that is for sure! My druid, which is my oldest character, has a bank packed to the brim with stuff I may or may not use someday! Sometimes I open my bank on them, and I just can’t. It is a mess lol.
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Assuming you’re talking retail gear, that is one of the changes they’ve made to the game since the days of classic.
The game now just throws all of the gear at you, so it’s less you asking “will I get anything” and more you asking “is what I’m going to get good”.
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and all the random currencies for rep or item turnins and whatnot
at least our bags are a lot bigger, so i still have more empty slots than 15 years ago, for when i run old stuff and fill up on random loot before i have to vendor
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I Marie Kondo’d half my stuff, does it spark joy? The answer for most of my old gear I decided to save earlier was yes so I kept a lot. If I don’t know what it is, delete
Also, please let me delete more stuff. I don’t want to visit the runecarver for example
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Hands off my Pocket Pizza, but yeah, OP. It’s a little absurd how many little novelty items we get. I mean, there are three types of gray item rock you get from fishing, alone. I’d love to see a list of the various flavor items added for Undermine that are on-use or strictly humorous. Add in the random delve on-use items and it’s…a lot.
You’re not wrong.
I just vend regularly to keep my bags clear.
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I agree I have so much stuff in my bags I don’t even know what half of it does. It is absurd you are absolutely correct.
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Love how the complaints of too many of X keep getting more and more into the weeds.
You could simply read the tooltips of what they do. If it doesn’t sound useful, stop saving them.
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I think there are too many trash trinkets. They buffed a bunch of them though. The only trinkets that are good are the 3 out of the raid off the last 3 bosses. We’re doing this “last bosses have all the loot you want” thing again which is getting really old.
Chasing loot in this game period is dumb now. It’s weird how in Classic, if we pug a raid, we still run an SR sheet. In Retail, when we pug raids, no one in the guild gets anything, the pugs run off with everything.
It’s week 3 and I still haven’t gotten anything from the raid.
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I mean sure… ? the thread is to discuss how ridiculous the amount of items the game is spitting out at you…
Yes, the sheer volume of items in the game has been an issue for a long time, and it’s not just an accident—it’s part of the game’s design. The way WoW handles item bloat serves a purpose: it subtly forces players to engage with vendors, auction houses, or manual inventory management, adding small but frequent time sinks that, over the course of a play session (or a subscription), add up.
By overloading players with random gear drops, crafting materials, outdated currencies, and situational items, the game creates a constant need to “deal with” inventory rather than just focusing on gameplay. Whether that means selling, sorting, deleting, or figuring out if something is useful, these micro-tasks slowly chip away at your time.
Blizzard has taken steps to ease some of this over the years—like separate reagent storage and collection-based transmog—but they always leave enough friction in place to keep the system active. After all, the more time you spend managing items, the more engaged (or dependent) you are on certain in-game mechanics, whether that’s bag upgrades, vendor interactions, or even just the gold economy.
So yes, item bloat is absolutely intentional. It’s not just a flaw—it’s a way to extend engagement, keeping players occupied with “maintenance” tasks that, while small on their own, add up over time.
It’s a similar tactic a lot of p2w gatcha games use FYI.
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It’s a damn shame honestly, I wish they wouldn’t do this but I see where you’re coming from.
I’ve got so many car parts in my bags that I’m sure I’ll get to use one day.
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Having just finished Undermine… yeah I feel this in my bones. My poor bags…
I’ve been meaning to get an addon that removes the prompt when you delete stuff, if such a thing even exists. I wonder if there is an addon that just purges my bags out.
I think there is or maybe a script to run to disable it I’m not sure, might be a Google thing.
Perhaps it’s time to recruit for raiding so the loot stays in house.
Since I started playing the game I have no idea what I should do with all this stuff, sometimes I learn that I could buy something with the trash here and there
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i just started vendoring those, my car works fine and i had like 7 of them and still couldn’t combine them into anything so gave up lol
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I use addons that tell me what expac an item is from and what profession it’s for.