Auto-Loot - Good or Bad?

[Luperca]

Only if there are two skinners in the same area.

[Baelic]

Get Loot-A-Rang, done.

Without the use of an item, though my mind was thinking more of a loot radius and said range because... Game Dev XD

[Gemini Soul]

I was thinking about this and wondered if it would be a good addition to WoW if there was an option to automatically receive loot from mobs without clicking?

Now I know people will immediately scream LAZY but hear me out, in FFXIV they use this system and I personally think it is great! I usually ignore most loot because I am either rushing to avoid aggro or just plain forget... Keep in mind I am suggesting this as an option not a replacement

As a tank i would LOVE this option, because i chain pull and if i stop to loot after each pull DPS will pull instead.

[Camthur]

I'd love if it auto looted for you. I'm all the time accidentally trying to loot stuff while moving around in combat.

[davidbane123]

As silly as this may sound, clicking for loot is a core RPG element.

It simply cannot be removed or changed. It's a fundamental interaction that needs to stay the way it is.

Oh really? Please explain...

[Lucetia]

Yes please. I would like to have that.

Anyway - aren't the items we don't loot being sent to us by the postmaster?

They were in Draenor at the start then everyone cried about their mailboxes being filled with greys. I personally liked it for those I did miss.

[-Joker-]

Gnome + Engineer = Loot-A-Rang. No more clicking bodies. Seems like loot without even clicking ONE button is quite the lazy task. Perhaps you would also enjoy a bot to fly you out to the zone, and kill things for you as well?

[Splenda]

I'm honestly indifferent. I don't mind clicking to loot with AoE looting. I just wish AoE looting, if anything, had a wider range.

[Echoherb]

Not really, if it was a full automated loot system where you didn't have to loot/press anything, it would benefit botting more than players.

People made this same argument with group looting, and that's worked out just fine so far. It doesn't matter to a bot whether it has to stop to loot or not, it's a bot, it's going to bot no matter what. It's not like botting is even a major problem in wow anymore.

[Deleted]

private servers are not ran by the game makers hence it is pointless so no, wow adds features, which is different from changing how the game is
no one should be fine with inexperienced persons wanting to change the game because it can lead to the disappearance of the good in the game and the plain game when masses gets stupid ideas that they don't want to let go. let the dev do their work and don't make them adapt to a market that doesn't know what a video game is, instead adapt to what they do

You keep saying this despite said feature already exciting in numerous MMORPGs

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Gnome + Engineer = Loot-A-Rang. No more clicking bodies. Seems like loot without even clicking ONE button is quite the lazy task. Perhaps you would also enjoy a bot to fly you out to the zone, and kill things for you as well?

No but you're obviously being obtuse

Auto loot and auto kill are so vastly different that you shouldn't need it explaining

[Paulosio]

I would like it... I play a beast mastery hunter and I have a bodyguard follower who also has a pet. So there's always at least 3 pets plus my follower standing on and around any corpse I may want to click and loot which makes it almost impossible.

The only thing that stops me going insane is that hunters have an ability called "Fetch" which sends your pet to loot for you... I use it even when i'm standing within melee range of a corpse because it's easier.

[Emerald Archer]

Yes please. I would like to have that.

Anyway - aren't the items we don't loot being sent to us by the postmaster?

Not all, only a few items now. Such as boss drops you miss.

If you kill a rare on Broken Shore, and forget to loot. None of that loot is coming in the mail.

All because people had a huge cry about getting greys in their mail.

[Lochton]

People made this same argument with group looting, and that's worked out just fine so far. It doesn't matter to a bot whether it has to stop to loot or not, it's a bot, it's going to bot no matter what. It's not like botting is even a major problem in wow anymore.

Not really the same. Looting + AoE vs. Kill and run, no. Game shouldn't be made too lazy, nor supporting of botting.

And not like botting is a major problem? The fact we have to have ban waves yearly, multiple times, is showing that we do have a problem.

[ComputerNerd]

Looting from multiple mobs is easier than it has ever been.
There doesn't in my opinion need to be further simplifications to looting in general.

[Cæli]

You keep saying this despite said feature already exciting in numerous MMORPGs

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No but you're obviously being obtuse

Auto loot and auto kill are so vastly different that you shouldn't need it explaining

I don't see how any other mmo have to do with wow

[-Joker-]

No but you're obviously being obtuse

Auto loot and auto kill are so vastly different that you shouldn't need it explaining

I find that people who are generally too lazy to loot are usually too lazy to play, and end up using any excuse to have things handed to them. We've already eliminated 70% of the tedium in the game. You can now fish without a pole and make a fire without reagents.

[Deleted]

I don't see how any other mmo have to do with wow

Well Blizzard disagree

Blizzard play other MMOs and adopt successful features from them into WoW... It's been happening since TBC

[MrExcelion]

Love loot-a-rang for this reason. Great reason to be an engineer

[Deleted]

I find that people who are generally too lazy to loot are usually too lazy to play, and end up using any excuse to have things handed to them. We've already eliminated 70% of the tedium in the game. You can now fish without a pole and make a fire without reagents.

You like tedium? You seem opposed to eliminating tedium

[Cæli]

Well Blizzard disagree

Blizzard play other MMOs and adopt successful features from them into WoW... It's been happening since TBC

no it is not applicable, wow is wow, the game makers get influences and the game is a result of the existence of everquest but they are the creators and the final result is a result of their work and approval of ideas, not a result of players ideas or other games