This has been a peeve of mine for a while now, Warriors leaving their banners lying around where anyone hitting “F” ends up picking them up. Nobody wants your stupid banners, we want to pick up loot. Make it so that only the person who drops the banner can pick up the banner, or at least give a toggle in the options to prevent yourself from being able to pick up banners by hitting F.
“If you spent as much time working on [some task] as
you spend complaining about it on the forums, you’d be
done by now.”
But there is some strategic use for other people being able to pick up your banners.
For example, a single banner warrior can provide a group with a total of 4 banners that each with Regeneration. If the warrior himself was the only one who can pick them up, then using multiple banners would actually be detrimental, as you could only take one of them with you.
How about you try to spend less time hitting the F key like a greedy, loot-crazed salivating puppy?
Yes please. I’m sick of constantly picking up banners when trying to pick up my loot in a zerg vs. zerg fight. REALLY frustrating. Not only that but then people blame me – it’s like, I’m just trying to get my loot for frogs sake, don’t blame me!
That used to happen to me but a few months ago they allowed us to separate the interact and loot keys and it hasn’t happened since.
Check your options, put loot on a different key than interact and there you go. You’ll never pick up a banner by accident again.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-June-25th-2013/first#post2339673
AoE Looting
Players can now loot all creatures and loot chests dropped by creatures in a small radius with a single interact.
This feature can be used by either:
Selecting a new “AoE Loot On Interact” option, which will use the same key binding as the “Interact” key but will only trigger the AoE Loot functionality while none of the forms of the interact dialog are visible. Creating a new key binding named “AoE Loot” under the “Miscellaneous” section of the key bindings tab on the options panel.
Lame topic, there is already option which solve that problem. AoE loot, i play banner war and we havent problems with loot, revive etc. Because F prefer – revive → loot → banners ^^
But there is some strategic use for other people being able to pick up your banners.
For example, a single banner warrior can provide a group with a total of 4 banners that each with Regeneration. If the warrior himself was the only one who can pick them up, then using multiple banners would actually be detrimental, as you could only take one of them with you.
I would gladly give up this versatility to not have to worry about picking them up. Like I said, maybe it could be a menu option, so people who join groups with banner-mad Warriors could turn that toggle off, but for most people they have no need for picking up banners. If it came down to “we can only turn this ability off for everyone or leave it on for everyone,” I think that 9/10 times, it would be better to turn it off for everyone, and that 1/10 times, they can figure out some other strategy.
Check your options, put loot on a different key than interact and there you go. You’ll never pick up a banner by accident again.
I’ve gotten too used to hitting F to pick up loot, I’d still be picking up banners I just wouldn’t be getting any loot. Maybe they could give us a separate key for picking up banners and I would just bind that to “L” or something else suitably out of the way.
Lame topic, there is already option which solve that problem. AoE loot, i play banner war and we havent problems with loot, revive etc. Because F prefer – revive ? loot ? banners ^^
Ok, that’s it, next time I pick up a banner by accident I’ll just run it ten seconds away from the zerg before putting it down again, then go back to where I was and collect my loot.
“If you spent as much time working on [some task] as
you spend complaining about it on the forums, you’d be
done by now.”
But there is some strategic use for other people being able to pick up your banners.
For example, a single banner warrior can provide a group with a total of 4 banners that each with Regeneration. If the warrior himself was the only one who can pick them up, then using multiple banners would actually be detrimental, as you could only take one of them with you.
I would gladly give up this versatility to not have to worry about picking them up. Like I said, maybe it could be a menu option, so people who join groups with banner-mad Warriors could turn that toggle off, but for most people they have no need for picking up banners. If it came down to “we can only turn this ability off for everyone or leave it on for everyone,” I think that 9/10 times, it would be better to turn it off for everyone, and that 1/10 times, they can figure out some other strategy.
Check your options, put loot on a different key than interact and there you go. You’ll never pick up a banner by accident again.
I’ve gotten too used to hitting F to pick up loot, I’d still be picking up banners I just wouldn’t be getting any loot. Maybe they could give us a separate key for picking up banners and I would just bind that to “L” or something else suitably out of the way.
Lame topic, there is already option which solve that problem. AoE loot, i play banner war and we havent problems with loot, revive etc. Because F prefer – revive ? loot ? banners ^^
Ok, that’s it, next time I pick up a banner by accident I’ll just run it ten seconds away from the zerg before putting it down again, then go back to where I was and collect my loot.
I have my pick up loot on F and put interact on G.
I still spam F to pick up loot, and I still hit F, when I see something like a banner come up when picking up loot, but since picking up a banner is now on G with interact, nothing happens.
But there is some strategic use for other people being able to pick up your banners.
For example, a single banner warrior can provide a group with a total of 4 banners that each with Regeneration. If the warrior himself was the only one who can pick them up, then using multiple banners would actually be detrimental, as you could only take one of them with you.
How about you try to spend less time hitting the F key like a greedy, loot-crazed salivating puppy?
Can’t forget skill 3 and the area swiftness boost. That’s great for running in zerks when others use them too. Regardless though all you have to do is change your interact to some other button and leave aoe loot at F. Other people picking up banners very good strategically I wouldn’t want it to change.
But there is some strategic use for other people being able to pick up your banners.
For example, a single banner warrior can provide a group with a total of 4 banners that each with Regeneration. If the warrior himself was the only one who can pick them up, then using multiple banners would actually be detrimental, as you could only take one of them with you.
How about you try to spend less time hitting the F key like a greedy, loot-crazed salivating puppy?
Can’t forget skill 3 and the area swiftness boost. That’s great for running in zerks when others use them too. Regardless though all you have to do is change your interact to some other button and leave aoe loot at F. Other people picking up banners very good strategically I wouldn’t want it to change.
There you go, assuming everyone else knows the skills your banner provides. As soon as I realize I’ve picked one up, I shout at my computer, the dog jumps up from his nap and knocks over the lamp, and I am playing by the light of my monitor hoping no shards of lightbulb got into my soda.
I do NOT have time during combat to learn your skills, nor do I WANT to. I DO use AoE looting, but I still pick up banners by accident on occasion since the F key is multi-functional and not just for looting.
Preferably, they should only be able to be picked up by the person who dropped them, like turrets. Until that day, I’d appreciate it if you’d drop them back towards the edge of the action, not right in the middle of the scrum. The people who want to pick them up can go grab them, and the rest of us won’t curse your very birth.
Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm all day.
Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm the rest of his life.
– Unknown Fire Elementalist
Is it really that hard for you to get to your options and change the keybindings by yourself? Change AoE-Loot to F and Interact to whatever you want. There are definitly more important issues that need Anets attention than this one…
But there is some strategic use for other people being able to pick up your banners.
For example, a single banner warrior can provide a group with a total of 4 banners that each with Regeneration. If the warrior himself was the only one who can pick them up, then using multiple banners would actually be detrimental, as you could only take one of them with you.
How about you try to spend less time hitting the F key like a greedy, loot-crazed salivating puppy?
Can’t forget skill 3 and the area swiftness boost. That’s great for running in zerks when others use them too. Regardless though all you have to do is change your interact to some other button and leave aoe loot at F. Other people picking up banners very good strategically I wouldn’t want it to change.
There you go, assuming everyone else knows the skills your banner provides. As soon as I realize I’ve picked one up, I shout at my computer, the dog jumps up from his nap and knocks over the lamp, and I am playing by the light of my monitor hoping no shards of lightbulb got into my soda.
I do NOT have time during combat to learn your skills, nor do I WANT to. I DO use AoE looting, but I still pick up banners by accident on occasion since the F key is multi-functional and not just for looting.
Preferably, they should only be able to be picked up by the person who dropped them, like turrets. Until that day, I’d appreciate it if you’d drop them back towards the edge of the action, not right in the middle of the scrum. The people who want to pick them up can go grab them, and the rest of us won’t curse your very birth.
As I said in my post above, you CAN split it up. Leave loot on F and put interact on some other key.
Being a Mesmer, one of the few reliable ways for me to get a speed buff is picking up a banner, which a warrior left behind. I am actually serious here; I am always looking for banners to steal when doing dungeons, the recent Mad Kings Labyrinth event etc. (lol)
I do see where the OP is coming from, I did a dungeon run with 4 warriors and when one of them went down… well…. I picked up banner after banner and failed to res him in time. Maybe that is what you would call poetic justice? Warrior dies due to misplaced banners.
You all do know about AoE loot that you bind to a key that is different than interact with object, right?
Don’t be silly that would require some effort that isn’t complaining about an issue they could easily resolve themselves….that’s not the MMO gamer way.
Everyone that finds this such an issue go into your key bindings and make ‘r’ or whatever into your aoe loot pick up (even better than having to press F on every loot, you can get them all in one go and not even be near them :O)
Let us buy vendor mats (eg spools of thread) in 250 stacks, end the excessive clicking.
Forget looting already! It’s not just looting! I already programmed SHIFT+F to AoE loot, and that is what I use. (It’s even bound to one of my mouse buttons).
The same key I use for Interact is also going to pick up your banners. Someone near me is downed? I use the Interact key. Oops! Sorry, guy – you wouldn’t have died if I hadn’t accidentally picked up that banner instead. I want to pick up a boulder to knock down a target? I use the Interact key. Doh! That’s not a boulder! What the heck are these skills? I want to unlock a chest? I use the Interact key (you know… those chests that take several seconds to open). Banner! Grrr! Drop banner and physically mouse-click on chest to open, then ARGH! Hit by an AoE and interrupted! I’ll never get this chest open!
This is what console games have plagued the PC world with… multi-function buttons. Listen to Nretep and split those suckers up.
Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm all day.
Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm the rest of his life.
– Unknown Fire Elementalist
Meaning … you can never loot the fractal hammer when is lays on a down player.
I dunno about the priotiy list when you clicked at something … it sure changes a bit
100% Agree with this!! Those banners are so annoying and they are always in the way!
And AoE loot on a different key doesn’t fix the problem because it isn’t the loot that I’m concerned about as much as the resing and picking up other useful things like elementalist’s conjured weapons. I go to pick up an Ice Bow in AC and end up getting a banner instead. In the amount of time it takes me to move that stupid banner and grab the bow and use skill 4 I already have 15 gravelings that have spawned which are stun locking me….
As I said in my post above, you CAN split it up. Leave loot on F and put interact on some other key.
You go to options to do it.
I want both Interact and Loot to be on F, I just don’t want Interact to pick up banners that aren’t mine.
I did figure out the solution though, every time I do pick up a banner, I run it about 20ft to the side and then put it down, and it’s no longer an issue.
Being a Mesmer, one of the few reliable ways for me to get a speed buff is picking up a banner, which a warrior left behind. I am actually serious here; I am always looking for banners to steal when doing dungeons, the recent Mad Kings Labyrinth event etc. (lol)
I also run a Mesmer and feel your pain, but the solution is for that Warrior to cast the Swiftness himself, it’s a party boost.
Also Mesmers need better speed boost options.
“If you spent as much time working on [some task] as
you spend complaining about it on the forums, you’d be
done by now.”
