Guild Wars 2

I’d like to see the following options for looting in the game:

1. Manual looting (same as current default): pressing [F] brings up a panel allowing you to choose what to pick up.
2. Auto distribute (same as current so-called auto looting): pressing [F] automatically drops found items into inventory.
3. Auto loot (same as Diablo 3): whenever you are near loot, it is automatically distributed to inventory. No need to press a key. (And this should be the new default.)

99% of new players will use (3). As players gain wealth (or after a long session), some will choose (2) so that they don’t pick up everything. Only a few of the wealthiest players will ever choose option (1).

This would also largely eliminate the need to create a separate hot key for looting and other actions (revive, talk, open chests, …) — looting would be automatic for most players.

mine is auto but still pressing “c” loot key, so its not auto loot isnt?

or make WoW-like loot mechanic: when you press loot button – you gather shinies from every loot-able corpse/bag in a certain radius around the player.

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or make WoW-like loot mechanic: when you press loot button – you gather shinies from every loot-able corpse/bag in a certain radius around the player.

I really would like to see a true auto-area-loot function in this game. As it is, the current auto loot allows you to pick up everything you have available to loot, BUT you have to click [F] on every body in order to make sure you get everything available for you. So it is only half auto-loot in my opinion.

Still, it is time-consuming. And when you are in the middle of a battle you don’t have time to constantly press [F] to loot as you go. I noticed early in the game that if you wait until the battle is over, some of the lootable bodies were gone…that’s right, they despawned completely.

I found this out when I first started to play and went to loot one of my “bodies” but it disappeared as I started to loot it and lost whatever loot was available to me because of this issue. I did bug it at that time, as I thought the bodies were designed to stay put until the loot was actually taken. Of course, if within a reasonable amount of time no one loots it, then of course the body should despawn. I think this should be timed and triggered by the end of combat for that particular battle and provide for a limited amount of time to do the looting.

Auto-area-loot would mean clicking [F] one time and collecting everything you are entitled to loot in one fell swoop.