Auto looting for wvw (ie true auto loot) would be great, don’t see it as a problem in pve, in fact I can see reasons why they would NOT want to bring it in for pve – think bots.
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Bots couldn’t care less about pressing [F] over and over again, because they are, well, bots. They are programmed to be as efficient as possible. I can’t imagine that this will speed them up significantly. However, the current setup is terrible for the player. I can’t count the number of times during a big battle when I have to choose between rezzing a player, helping to defeat trash or boss mobs, or grab that drop over in the corner — and if you don’t grab it right away, it disappears.
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Auto looting for wvw (ie true auto loot) would be great, don’t see it as a problem in pve, in fact I can see reasons why they would NOT want to bring it in for pve – think bots.
I completely agree. The actual setting is not logical since it’s suppose to loot automatically, plus it’s annoying. For example in dungeons when you kill a big bunch of monsters, you move during the fight so you’re not near the corpses (especially is you are a range class), the groups moves on and you have to say “hey wait I’ve got a loot at the other end of the room”…
Also sometimes you want to rez a player before he dies and…. the game only gives you the option to loot until you have picked up everything near the player. Another issue a real auto loot would solve.
Even if its for WvW i would be happy. It really annoys the kitten out of me that sometimes i am forced to correct my kiting just for the purpose of looting mid battle.
EDIT. In fact thinking about the botting issue WvW should be the only time loot is true auto…. Just to make a botters life a little harder.
It would even be an improvement to auto pick up loot that you’re standing near. That way you wouldn’t need to press F, notice the loot or worry about not reviving someone. You’d never lose loot in WvW ever.
Bots are programmed to pick up anything anyway, it’s no skin off their back. The trip to the sparkly pile is the only thing that does slow them a bit.
I agree,
I’m getting sick of all the tedious crap they implement to stop bots taht doesn’t do crap to stop bots but makes the real players life a hassle in game.
I agree. I had an idea to make mini-pets more useful, would be nice to make them auto-picking all our drops. As for now mini-pets give us nothing than show-off… and even that’s rare.
I have to say the one thing that is truly annoying in wvw is the lack of auto loot and the inability to even see that you have bags to loot on the ground during a fight due to the billion particles of player effects going off while you are either charging in or running for your life. in many cases i dont even see the “search” pop up because there is simply too much going on that washes out the pop up visually.
You see I don’t understand why the option can’t be there, if there are the 3 options mentioned then everybody will be happy, it cannot be that hard to accomplish for someone whose job it is to program :/
Auto looting for wvw (ie true auto loot) would be great, don’t see it as a problem in pve, in fact I can see reasons why they would NOT want to bring it in for pve – think bots.
Remember bots don’t care if its boring they are going to loot anyway.
When i first read this suggestion, i thought it was the samething i was thinking of. but on re-reading. it doesn’t sound like it. It sounds like its suggesting that no matter where you are when the mobs dies, loot “flies” into your inventory. I disagree with that. what i suggest is an Auto Pickup. Meaning that if you walk within range of a dead mob or bag of loot where the option of press “F to Search” were to show up, it automatically happens. But you have to at least get to the corpse to loot first.
When i first read this suggestion, i thought it was the samething i was thinking of. but on re-reading. it doesn’t sound like it. It sounds like its suggesting that no matter where you are when the mobs dies, loot “flies” into your inventory. I disagree with that. what i suggest is an Auto Pickup. Meaning that if you walk within range of a dead mob or bag of loot where the option of press “F to Search” were to show up, it automatically happens. But you have to at least get to the corpse to loot first.
I’d support an option for auto-pickup, too (and I have, in other posts on the topic). Worked well for Diablo; it would work well here, too.
There are three reasons I still want the option for loot to “fly into inventory:”
It’s still too hard to see if there’s loot lying around. In GW1, you could hold “alt” and even target loot; in GW2, it often gets lost in the environment. Until this is fixed, I don’t want to depend on random walk to find my drops.
I don’t want to ever feel that I’m forced to choose between collecting loot and participating in the battle. This could be addressed by making loot remain until picked up, but currently I will miss out if I wait too long, DC, or waypoint out of the immediate area and return.
I want to spend as much time playing and as little time managing inventory as possible.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
