Guild Wars 2

Will there be any possibility of auto-looting in the future?

There already is. You just have to press F.

If it bothers you so much, just make an AHK Script to spam the F Key on a button press.

There is NOT auto looting at all what are you talking about, this is like my #1 problem with the game, the bags show up at your feet and its a huge distraction to think about looting them while you’re in a huge fight, I have more important keys to press involving playing the game not collecting loot which I really need, it shouldn’t be this way… people constantly having to double back to pick up bags, it breaks up the gameplay and makes no sense.

Having to press F isn’t auto-looting. Please look in the dictionary for the definition of auto. Thank you.

There is obviously a reason why it’s not done. If you don’t like it, play a different game.

What’s obvious is that it’s a horrible looting system and takes away from the game, MMO’s always start out with silly things like this that eventually get changed when enough people wake up to how annoying it is..

Any idea how long you have to loot before corpses with loot on them disappear? I’ve done many DEs and just stopped worrying about looting when things started getting hectic, and was later able to collect what I assume was all my loot after it was over.

Personally, I wouldn’t use an auto-loot feature (that doesn’t mean I don’t think others shouldn’t have that option), but I would love to see an area-loot so I could press F once around a big group of dead enemies and loot them all at once. SWTOR has area loot, and it’s a great convenience feature.

At least give us autoloot in wvw =(

along with a true auto-loot feature, i’d also appreciate an area loot feature as seen in SWTOR and RIFT. these little quality of life features would make my life and play experience all the more enjoyable.

thanks!

I don’t really need a full-on auto loot feature. After all, I have no issues pressing “F” as soon as the battle ends. If everybody else wants to leave their stuff behind, then that’s their problem. Besides, in the middle of a battle… I can use my mouse to click my attacks and press “F” on my keyboard as soon as I notice that it’s available. It’s really not a big deal, for me at least.

The area loot however sounds like a great idea.

It would just make it easier to bot…and high level engineers in low level zones wouldn’t even have to. LOL.

Something needs to be done about WvW loot, though. I’m not really sure what. Maybe just increase the loot distance significantly. Right now it’s too easy to not even notice you helped get a kill.

I also wish that looting didn’t use the same button as…everything else. ; )

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It would just make it easier to bot…and high level engineers in low level zones wouldn’t even have to. LOL.

Something needs to be done about WvW loot, though. I’m not really sure what. Maybe just increase the loot distance significantly. Right now it’s too easy to not even notice you helped get a kill.

I also wish that looting didn’t use the same button as…everything else. ; )

i don’t think the answer to botting is to not implement QoL advancements. surely there are better ways?

BaconCatTheGreasy.9542:

There is obviously a reason why it’s not done. If you don’t like it, play a different game.

And even more overriding reasons why it SHOULD be done.

For example, the loot is the “interact” key, which means you talk to all the NPCs, rez people, and pick up garbage you don’t want (e.g. shovels or garden hoes).

None of which stops people from botting. This only pisses off actual human beings.

Next time, if you don’t have something constructive to add to the conversation why don’t you just fail to comment? Oh, wait. You already did fail.

yeah, i mean, i mostly grew up MMO-wise in City of Heroes. that’s a good, what, 7 or 8 years? and that game is completely auto-loot. Rewards (“enhancements”) just went right into your enhancement inventory. that didn’t destroy that game. in fact, it was one of its big selling points and great QoL features.

but i’ll leave it to the devs, as long as they’re aware that this is something people are interested in.

The biggest problem is the badge of honor has to be looted, and comes in a small brown bag that’s difficult to see, or impossible to get too (over run or died).

So by autolooting you mean like in D3 where you walk over gold and instantly pick it up?

Honestly I think its fine like it is. If I kill several mobs in one spot I put myself i the middle and spamm F Key several times.. Looted everything possible.

Looting mid fight is no problem for me again spamming F key. (Unless you keybind the F key to something else). But Imo in a Fight you should first fight all the mobs and then loot afterwards.

In my Case Looting has never been a Issue at all.

While adding auto-loot lets add in auto-sell to vendor. Heck lets remove item drops and convert them into coin that is auto added, with little floating text above head on +xx copper/silver/gold.

If we are going down that road, let’s floor it.

Basically, this thread is asking for one more feature that will allow the player to use fewer finger muscles than he would if he pressed the loot button.

We should also ask ArenaNet to introduce an auto attack, without actually having to press 1. Like, we should only be able to think about auto attack for it to actually attack.

How dare they make us exert so much effort!!!

I assume most people against this don’t run a lot of dungeons, or don’t do WvW.

I support this due to my issue with. . .

F→Talk to hylek→Close hylek conversation→F→Revive Ally→Finish reviving or try to move around ally→F→Back to the hylek→F→Loot

Or WvW

Jump kill someone→F→Spear them→F for loot→Star spearing someone else→Get pushed back→Look at 3 loot bags in enemy spawn

Great. >.>

It would be convenient to add a true auto-loot in PvE. However it’s almost necessary to add it for WvW. If you’re running with the zerg or chasing people, you get one kill and have a split second to spam F to pick it up.

I try to spam F sometimes on the run when I know I’m about to kill something, but sometimes it talks to the NPC and messes up the combat.

It’s not game-breaking, just slightly annoying.

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I assume most people against this don’t run a lot of dungeons, or don’t do WvW.

I support this due to my issue with. . .

F->Talk to hylek->Close hylek conversation->F->Revive Ally->Finish reviving or try to move around ally->F->Back to the hylek->F->Loot

Or WvW

Jump kill someone->F->Spear them->F for loot->Star spearing someone else->Get pushed back->Look at 3 loot bags in enemy spawn

Great. >.>

I do think a couple people mentioned how this would be useful in WvWvW (because of how big the map is, and because of how many players are there, it gets confusing) and maybe Dungeons as well.

But for PvE, I don’t think this should be implemented. But I definitely would support this for WvWvW.

I did point out that NPCs hugging you into not wanting that loot with dialogue boxes is annoying in PvE as well right?

AOE loot option that you can turn on or off from your options page is needed.

My problem is when I hit F I rez an NPC, Loot a Bag, Rez a party member, or open a coffin full of nasties.

This is way more of a problem in a heated battle

Picking loots distracts your personal story experience and the personal connection to the npcs in it suffers because you are just picking loot instead of helping them. Idk about pve but pve personal story needs this.

I’m all for full auto loot. We get that warning anyway when our bag is full, and shows the loot on the right side.

But yeah, this would be mostly for WvW. PVE, I have no problems at all, but WvW, I’ll lose bags, or have to go back to pick them up and an ally may die, or something may happen in that time. It’s just distracting, and the loot action does not add “fun” to the game anyway.

+1 for autoloot. There are too many times where I had to target the loot, or else end up triggering some other deal (manning a weapon, revive, finisher, etc etc etc).

BaconCatTheGreasy.9542:

There already is. You just have to press F.

If it bothers you so much, just make an AHK Script to spam the F Key on a button press.

I actually would do this if the loot key wasn’t also the action key for everything else in the game. It’s already bad enough running around in WvW spamming my action key for loot bags and ended up inadvertently finishing downed enemies, manning siege, and resurrecting allies.

Seriously, the one key for all “interactions” has got to go, or autoloot needs to be added to the game.

As an engineer looting is a PITA.

In big battles you ending up destroying the turrets you just put out, pick up crap like rocks and metal bars that swap your kit. Then dropping that item swaps to your default kit then you swap back to the kit you want. And then you have to reset up your auto attack for that kit.

Ya not what I want to be focusing on with a swarm of risen or an army of defenders coming in. Autoloot option plz. With maybe a cool sound or icon when you get yellow or above loot. Kinda like that dancing treasure chest. Makes it exciting to see what you got.