Any benefits of Weight reducing bags in combat or movement?

[Black]

<p>Gday</p><p>Has anyone noticed any benefits of weight reducing bags in combat or movment (running or sneaking)?</p><p>Would seem kind of logical that we might get some combat boost or sneak benefits that is not explicitly documented. </p><p>I am of course referring to a person that is not encumbered anyway</p><p> Cheers</p>

[Karlen]

As far as I know, it only relates to your encumbrance.  Some characters don't have a very high strength and need to take care that they don't get encumbered.Others have high strength and can use strongboxes for packs (which both my paladin and mystic do).

[Rijacki]

As an arasai coercer, the weight reduction bags mean I can carry all of my resist gear and other stuff without needing to obtain str food or potions or make sure my gear has str or I take Achievement points in str instead of the stats I want.As an erudite dirge, I have the strength to carry my resist gear in strong boxes and never break a sweat.As a level 35ish arasai coercer, I get encumbered while I have revive sickness or my str food runs out. I also get encumbered when my bags have been filling up with plate drops. I have to return to home and unload more often.

[Savanja]

For my monk, they do nothing.. for my mage, they help a lot.  They aren't meant to produce a buff, they are meant to cancel out a debuff.

[Ama]

<cite>Savanja wrote:</cite><blockquote>For my monk, they do nothing.. for my mage, they help a lot.  They aren't meant to produce a buff, they are meant to cancel out a debuff.</blockquote><p>I have a female barbarian warlock and she has little problems with encumberance. <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/49869fe8223507d7223db3451e5321aa.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="20" height="15" /></p><p>Actually if people are interested there are 3 quested bags you need to aim for.  </p><p>1st: Sewn Evil Ey Bag "Foomby's Stolen Loot HQ" "20% weight Reduction"</p><p>2nd: Talk to the Silent Music guy in Shimmering Citadel for the Discovery the Secret Chamber quest in Poets Palace. "24% weight Reduction"</p><p>3rd: Bag of Tinkers "The Wondrous Inventions Of A Crazed Gnome HQ" "99% weight reduction"</p><p>With those 3 bags as you level up it will be hard to run out of room and be hard to run into the encumberance problem.  I think there's 1 to 2 more quested bags, but I will have to double check my main to see what they are exactly.  </p>

[simpwrx02]

<p>There is also the Box of Nil sapce or somethign like that, drops in CoA and has a 99% reduction and 34 slots.</p><p>But yeah it is just a special thing that only helps mages and healers as niether try to increase str and as such are easy to be overburdned.</p>

[Rijacki]

<cite>simpwrx02 wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>There is also the Box of Nil sapce or somethign like that, drops in CoA and has a 99% reduction and 34 slots.</p><p>But yeah it is just a special thing that only helps mages and healers as niether try to increase str and as such are easy to be overburdned.</p></blockquote>The Box of Nil space (or whatever it's called) is also a random drop in Sebilis.  My coercer has one.  It dropped from either a froglok or an iksar with a puppy near the exit off the mezzanine.  I was ecstatic when I got it.  I'd seen it drop one other time and grumbled when a non-mage got it.I have it stuffed with resist gear <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Svann]

When my wiz hit L8 I took the brawny character trait to help me with encumbrance, but by the time I was 15 I no longer needed it so I respecced to int.  ATM I am level 80 with a weight of 72/750 without any planning at all.  I think weight reducing bags are pretty worthless.  I couldnt possibly come close to the limit as most of my gear weighs 0.5 or 1.  Even ore weighs nothing.