World of Warcraft: How to Allocate Bag Space Effectively While Grinding

When grinding a character regardless of the level in World of Warcraft, it is important to have as much food and drink as you can use in a session to minimize downtime. Additionally, if you can afford it, you should invest in a large selection of potions both for reducing downtime and also to help out in a pinch during a longer than normal battle or a time where you aggro multiple characters unintentionally, and this happens a lot in World of Warcraft. With all of these considerations, one of the things that people often forget when going out to grind are the bags they carry. Many times, a player will keep bags that were gained via quests or just enough to carry their potions, food/drink and maybe a couple slots for quest items or various goods that they might pick up during a WoW grind session. This is a terrible idea for any player, as you will often find that you run out of space just as a great item comes up on one of the mobs you're grinding against. In order to make sure this never happens you should abide by these rules:

1) Always make sure to have at least 10 (low levels) or 20 (for higher levels) bag slots per mob zone you are grinding in. While this is slightly overkill, it will allow you to keep whatever you get during a session and will significantly decrease your downtime while also giving you some extra coin to buy food and drink during your trips to town.

2) When you do go into a town, buy at least four stacks of food and drink. Even if you run through these, they should last you a few hours at a minimum. Given that most food will take a little less than 30 seconds to consume, it would take you 40 minutes to consume all the food and drink (if you consume them together) if you took it back to back. With my mage, I generally have to refresh once every 3 minutes or so and therefore that stack would last me longer than 4 hours on a normal session. Obviously if you are grinding with a group it will last much longer and there is no reason you won't be able to get up a couple of levels at least before these stacks are exhausted. Most likely you won't be able to consume all of this before you go back to town so when you do go back, just stock back up so you have 4 stacks of each.

3) When you do buy food, make sure its the best that you can get for your level. Oftentimes (and this happens a lot with mages) on many Warcraft servers, a mage will fill their bag with conjured food and drink when it is a far lower level than they really need. This is a major downtime increaser because you will have to spend the entire regen time making sure your health and mana is up because otherwise you have to stop again much sooner than expected.

Spend a couple grind sessions working on these and you will see a huge increase in the amount of XP gained per hour on your characters.