Guild Wars 2

I have a few complaints / potential improvements about collecting loot. I was curious to see if anyone else had the same ideas.

1. As an Engineer, I am constantly laying down / picking up turrets. If I run across loot, I typically hit “F” to pick up. The issue, is sometimes I accidentally pick up my turret mid combat (lol). Are we able to set up a different key for loot pick up?

2. I’m sure I’m not the only one with complaint about having to go to each individual mob to pick up loot. In this scenario, it’s very easy to miss loot. I understand mobs have a glow to them if they have loot. I would just prefer to have a “Loot All” key. You know, have a key that picks up all loot in a certain radius. Many MMO’s do this already. In doing this, you would also avoid people looting during a epic battle.

What do you guys think?

My absolute #1 gripe about the UI in this game is that looting doesn’t have it’s own button. I’m already seriously sick of trying to loot a pile of mobs only to unknowingly end up holding a broken bottle and wondering why my attacks aren’t working on the next mob. Or accidentally stopping to revive some trash NPC and spending the next 10 seconds spamming every button on my keyboard trying to stop it while some mob is stomping on my helpless toon.

Seriously, give loot it own button.

Read something about they changing the order of “priority” for the F button in cases like thtat or in spots were instead of revive someone you would loot, etc… It was in the updates these days…. Is this still recent?

prophet.3461:

Read something about they changing the order of “priority” for the F button in cases like thtat or in spots were instead of revive someone you would loot, etc… It was in the updates these days…. Is this still recent?

Changing priority is a bandaid fix to me, I would much rather see the ability to map looting to a different key, same with pick-up, as the above poster said accidentally picking up a useless world weapon in the middle of a fight sucks. Being able to set auto loot would also alleviate some of these issues.

prophet.3461:

Read something about they changing the order of “priority” for the F button in cases like thtat or in spots were instead of revive someone you would loot, etc… It was in the updates these days…. Is this still recent?

No! Not this. This is NOT a fix. If there are several mobs sparkling around me, I should not have to count them or slowly hit the F key while checking every time to see if there are still some sparkling. We should be able to either spam a dedicated loot key in a hurry and/or hit a “loot all” key, or (best option IMO) be able to set an auto-loot option. Honestly, what does it add to the game to have to spam the F key to pick up your loot?

1st of all I’d liek to thank all warriors for their awesome support banner in the middle of a boss fight. Why ressurect a party member if you can haz an awesome banner!

2nd – gief loot all button.

Right. I thought the same button doing wrong things was the problem, then the fix should do it, but I agree that loot all would be great, such as an option to all colectible materials to go directly to bank!!! All the time I have to go to my inventory because its full of scales, fangs, vials and others stuff that is just to →go to inventory → send them to bank → continue looting.

prophet.3461:

Right. I thought the same button doing wrong things was the problem, then the fix should do it, but I agree that loot all would be great, such as an option to all colectible materials to go directly to bank!!! All the time I have to go to my inventory because its full of scales, fangs, vials and others stuff that is just to ->go to inventory -> send them to bank -> continue looting.

I like your idea. My bags get full easily just picking up mats, which seems that drops the most, but weird that i mostly get drops for higher lvl when i am still fighting to get pass where i am. But the F button those get annoying. To me, it will be when many mobs lay next to each other. I cant click on any other unless i unclick from the firs choice and then is a pain to click on others due to their proximity to each other. That fix will help me.