How AoE looting has changed wow

[Deleted]

Makes it a lot easier to skin when people are doing their dailies.

[swunt]

Makes it a lot easier to skin when people are doing their dailies.

I've never had a max lvl skinner but it seems like aoe loot is just a big increase to the amount of money one can make off skinning, am I right to assume this?

[Mormolyce]

Mass looting is an awesome feature and the fact anyone would complain about it really speaks to the irrationally negative attitude of a distinct subgroup of MMO gamers.

Strat runs before were easily 40-50g just looting money per run, now its 15-20 per if you even get that much. Much less Runecloth per run also. I've ran Strat far too many times to count.

Sigh.

That has nothing to do with mass looting, Blizzard changed all gold loot just prior to MoP so that you only get 1 person's share of a gold pool regardless of how many people are in the group/raid. For example, if a boss was tuned for 10m and was intended to give 50g per player, that meant the boss used to drop 500g in total so if you could solo the instance you'd get the full 500g (10 people's share). Now that loot is normalised you get the original 50g whether you're solo or with 9 other people.

I was doing the same thing for so long! But some suggest looting mobs one at a time actually increases your yield, perhaps looting every few mobs not such a bad idea after all

Completely false.

[Pascal]

I literally think about aoe looting and the fact that it is happening every time I loot anything ever. I see a sparkling mob and I go to loot it because I'm like "IT WILL LOOT ALL THE LOOT IN THE AREA."

And I think that is awesome.

Every time. No lie.

[Mormolyce]

I've never had a max lvl skinner but it seems like aoe loot is just a big increase to the amount of money one can make off skinning, am I right to assume this?

Not really, people still tend to leave greys on their corpses (and I reckon 50% or so of all beast corpses have a claw or something on them) which prevents skinning. I personally haven't noticed a massive increase in people fully looting their corpses.

Frankly the skinning mechanic is archaic and should be changed. Especially with the way a corpse has to be looted first - why not just keep corpses up until they've been both looted and skinned, and make them independent so you can do them in either order? And a REAL godsend would be the ability to mass skin :P

[Adam Jensen]

AoE looting is an improvement with zero downsides.

[Aquamonkey]

Not really, people still tend to leave greys on their corpses (and I reckon 50% or so of all beast corpses have a claw or something on them) which prevents skinning. I personally haven't noticed a massive increase in people fully looting their corpses.

Frankly the skinning mechanic is archaic and should be changed. Especially with the way a corpse has to be looted first - why not just keep corpses up until they've been both looted and skinned, and make them independent so you can do them in either order? And a REAL godsend would be the ability to mass skin :P

That would allow people to ninja-skin someone's corpses before they had a chance to skin them. You're already leeching free corpses for skins, no need to get overly greedy about it.

[Adam Jensen]

That would allow people to ninja-skin someone's corpses before they had a chance to skin them. You're already leeching free corpses for skins, no need to get overly greedy about it.

Simple fix: allow mobs to be lootable by anyone if they aren't looted within 10-15 seconds. That gives the person who tags the mob a large window of time to loot and skin.

Or rather than making it lootable, just make it skinnable after such time has passed.

[shokter]

They could have renamed the expansion "AoE Looting" and not included any content other than that and I would have likely still shelled out for it.

[Siltah]

I literally think about aoe looting and the fact that it is happening every time I loot anything ever. I see a sparkling mob and I go to loot it because I'm like "IT WILL LOOT ALL THE LOOT IN THE AREA."

And I think that is awesome.

Every time. No lie.

Basically this. I love it, and I still find it awesome.

[swunt]

They could have renamed the expansion "AoE Looting" and not included any content other than that and I would have likely still shelled out for it.

I totally agree!

[Asmalya]

AOE looting is a great thing. I'm not much for conspiracy theories, but its yet another example of blizz completely failing in an area of the game on purpose soley so they could call it an upgrade later. Rep grinding on alts anyone?

More explanation: its much easier to create pockets of almost great content and later make it actually great, than to come up with exceptional content to begin with. Time has shown that has been exactly the case with wow. Anyone remember having to select a new flight point every time you got to a new one? Just read the Vanilla wow threads about how things were great. All of the crap things were by design so they could improve them later.

Or..maybe..you know...i might sound crazy but...Blizzard might just learn a thing or two and work that into wow since..you know...not everyone can think of everything when you design a game..its not like you look at other games and go"wuah nice feature lets add it! and wooosh its in.

Esp when considering that iam sure noone at blizzard believed they would still have wow around after 8 years. So ya it might be that they still have to fight some design decisions that were made when the game was much much smaller. You know that happens 100000 times everday in software development all over the planet.

[Desminn]

Simple fix: allow mobs to be lootable by anyone if they aren't looted within 10-15 seconds. That gives the person who tags the mob a large window of time to loot and skin.

Or rather than making it lootable, just make it skinnable after such time has passed.

eh thats still a bit short imo, god knows the times you die from an over pull and have to run back some one will come along and loot any mobs you did kill and take that BoE drop >.> and /lol at your misfortune.

[velde046]

AOE looting is a great thing. I'm not much for conspiracy theories, but its yet another example of blizz completely failing in an area of the game on purpose soley so they could call it an upgrade later. Rep grinding on alts anyone?

More explanation: its much easier to create pockets of almost great content and later make it actually great, than to come up with exceptional content to begin with. Time has shown that has been exactly the case with wow. Anyone remember having to select a new flight point every time you got to a new one? Just read the Vanilla wow threads about how things were great. All of the crap things were by design so they could improve them later.

For one that does not care for conspiracy theories, it would seem you're wearing a large tin foil hat though....
judging from the second paragraph.

[Nerraw]

I can't imagine playing an MMO without AoE looting ever again.

[inboundpaper]

Like the second best change ever, after account wide achievements/mounts. When I was bouncing between WoW, Swotor, and GW2 I missed aoe loot when I played WoW.

[Deleted]

AoE loot is one of the best things they added to WoW in years, imo

[cywang86]

I wish this was there when I was grinding DM tribute for the Insane

Yes, I check every corpse so that I have a shot at the librams and the runecloth for ogre suits.

Honestly, I wouldn't have minded the old model if they took out the forced loot delay so you HAVE to let the animation to finish to receive the loot, so you can loot while running by like GW2, but alas.

[papajohn4]

I have also noticed less loot with aoe looting. I went to scarlet yesterday to farm some silk cloth to level tailoring on my alt and I noticed the difference. I have farm silk cloth countless times in scarlet monastery and I got at least the double cloth per run for sure. Although I don't mind, I prefer that way..better half the loot with aoe looting than the previous method.

[Deleted]

I've never had a max lvl skinner but it seems like aoe loot is just a big increase to the amount of money one can make off skinning, am I right to assume this?

If you're solo farming it makes it easier for yourself because you don't have to individually loot. If you're smart you can place yourself on a spot where people do their dailies (with beasts, if those are part of daily quest) and get yourself a shitload of mats. Of course, other skinners aren't exactly stupid in the head either so the end result is more mats available means more competition so the amount of money you can make off this isn't that much higher than it used to be.