I’ll open this by saying I’ve been loving the new professions in Dragonflight. I’ve been able to use my alts to efficiently support my main’s professions and target the specializations that I think would be most effective for my playstyle.
However, just two weeks in, I have already run into major issues with reagent bank space on my main character as I’ve been sending relevant, needed materials to this character. Ahead of the expansion I completely cleared out my reagent bank with the exception of a single stack of Tinker’s Kit I have always had on hand for Glider Tinkers and some restored artifacts I’ve been meaning to turn in. I understand the move to expand stack sizes was a large feature of this expansion and I do expect that will be incredibly impactful as the expansion continues, but right now I have myriad reagents (both types and qualities) that have already spilled out of the reagent bank. I do not know what the expectation is for being able to manage these crafting materials other than waiting a few months where most reagents are only medium or high quality.
As an example: my main does Engineering, Alchemy, Fishing, and Cooking. I have one alt that does Mining and Herbalism to provide reagents to my main.
The fish and cooking reagents are easy. They take up one slot each right now and I have no issues with how that is done.
The other materials though are very frustrating:
Elemental: There are 7 elemental materials each with a Rousing and Awakened version. Right now I have some of these materials and they are taking up 13 slots in my reagent bank. I can break down the Awakened versions into large stacks of Rousing materials to consolidate space in my bank, but if, for example, I need Rousing Fire in one recipe and then move over to a recipe that uses Awakened Fire, I then need to go to my bank to create that reagent. This same issue applies (to a lesser extent) to Illustrious Insight. Solution: Allow recipes that need an Awakened elemental material to instead use 10 Rousing elemental materials from the reagent bank.
Quality: The bulk of the issue lies in the number of qualities of each reagent has. We have 3 qualities of each crafting and finishing reagent, 4 Titan Training Matrices, and we are about to have 2 Primal Foci. Currently I don’t have every ore/metal reagent, but 8 slots of my reagent bag are populated by just 3 ores of different qualities. I do not believe any solution regarding consolidating these different qualities would be possible due to a number of different coding issues that treat these materials as different items so the only solution that I could imagine would apply here would be to drastically increase the size of the reagent bank.
Reclaiming Materials: I have only interacted with this mechanic through Alchemy concoction reclaiming, but I believe this issue hits a number of different professions. Currently the only way to reclaim a potion is to keep that potion in your bags. I tried dropping all potions into the main tab of my bank and reclaiming, but that returns an error: “That item is not a valid target.” It would be very helpful to be able to reclaim potions/phials from the bank since they are unable to be placed in the reagent bank due to their item type. Solution (if reagent bank is expanded): Allow potions and other consumable items that can be reclaimed be stored in and then reclaimed from the reagent bank. Solution (if reagent bank is not expanded): Allow potions and other consumable items be reclaimed from the regular bank.
