Is because when loot bags drop I miss most of them. I am unable to keep track of them, and if I go looking for them I’m either slowing down my party, or getting left behind by a zerg.
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Is because when loot bags drop I miss most of them. I am unable to keep track of them, and if I go looking for them I’m either slowing down my party, or getting left behind by a zerg.
set a key for aoe loot,and spamm that while fighting,you wont miss loot.
You know what would get you money anet ? Bring in a mini-pet that autoloots all with a larger radius then using the Aoe loot key.
My only problem with loot is forgetting to spam my aoe-loot button in the middle of an invigoratingly chaotic fight. I’m horrible about remembering that loot bags drop from players.
I leave more loot on the ground because I’m focused on winning.
(Need an auto-loot that does not require my remembering that playing WvW has something to do with loot.)
BG: 52 alts, 29 lvl 80’s.They all look good, so I am done with the game: Oct 2014
Is because when loot bags drop I miss most of them. I am unable to keep track of them, and if I go looking for them I’m either slowing down my party, or getting left behind by a zerg.
So if you had a Pre- cursor drop and you missed it, you would just think “oh well good fights, kitten the 600g i could make”?
this is completely bogus because how the heck would you know you were getting a precursor drop if you didn’t even bother looting the corpses?
It’s potentially not bogus, actually. I don’t know if item rarity procs off of loot or drop (that is to say, does anything even spawn in a bag that isn’t looted?) but if it procs off drop, abandoned bags could potentially have a real effect on the economy of rare items.
Why not just keybind AoE loot to a different key then set up a macro on your keyboard to spam it continuously?
Because with Anet’s insane definition of a ‘macro’ you’re only allowed to use macros when they aren’t actually macros. And yes, this is the Anet which licenses an official macro keyboard.
Why not just keybind AoE loot to a different key then set up a macro on your keyboard to spam it continuously?
Because with Anet’s insane definition of a ‘macro’ you’re only allowed to use macros when they aren’t actually macros. And yes, this is the Anet which licenses an official macro keyboard.
How what they know if it’s a macro,? You could just be spamming the autoloot key like everyone else. Set it to toggle on and off. Turn it on in the fight, turn it off when you are done. After seeing the amount of bots and hacks and gold sellers and buyers in this game I don’t see why anyone would be worried about an auto loot macro.
EDIT
Just dug this up
“Gaile Gray.6028:
Macros
Guild Wars 2 players are permitted to use macros as long as the macros are programmed with a 1 key for 1 function protocol.
This means that if you program a macro, it must require one keystroke per action. You may not program a single key to perform multiple functions. For example, if you Press A and it results in the casting of a single skill, you’re ok. If you Press A and it casts multiple spells, you’re not ok."
So having a macro that autoloots for you is in accordance with the rules since it is only casting 1 skill, which is too loot. I think I will program my keyboard now, after suggesting it I realize how useful it will be. No more missed bags, cause even after getting into the habit of spamming the loot key I still miss some and it sucks to see them disappear just as you are about to pick them up.
Be careful what you wish for, Anet might just give it to you “HoT”
“…let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die;.”
I have my aoe loot button setup for the [alt] button and press it often when in fights especially when I see the yellow exp text flashing up. It’s still a pretty kitten system to not have loot automatically go to your inventory on a kill though.
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Put something in the shop where you can buy a bag boy, like shield boys back in the days where they bear shields for warriors.
As we roll over zergs, our bag boy (or girl, if you so choose) picks up our loot and goes in our inventory while they can have maybe 20 bag space on them if ours gets full. I will buy it for 800 gems or more.
Put an “endless” WvW autoloot bag into the Gem Store. All loot that falls in WvW automatically lands there whether dead or alive.
I can dream, right?
Understand there are issues with having the game actually auto-loot deposit, bags get full and loot gets left behind and the players aren’t aware it is happening, which would have players unhappy with the developer. With dropped bags, it’s the customers’ responsibility to pick up bags. If the loot gets missed, they have no one to blame but themselves. (see: my previous post), ….. And players are still unhappy with the developer.
Can’t win on this one guys.
BG: 52 alts, 29 lvl 80’s.They all look good, so I am done with the game: Oct 2014
I still don’t understand why you have to press a button in order to get your reward.
Anet seems obsessed with people clicking and pressing things, i.e. one run of LA under siege = 170+ bags you needed to clickclicklickclick to get your 5 billion blade shards. Why? What is the point?
Put an “endless” WvW autoloot bag into the Gem Store. All loot that falls in WvW automatically lands there whether dead or alive.
I can dream, right?
Understand there are issues with having the game actually auto-loot deposit, bags get full and loot gets left behind and the players aren’t aware it is happening, which would have players unhappy with the developer. With dropped bags, it’s the customers’ responsibility to pick up bags. If the loot gets missed, they have no one to blame but themselves. (see: my previous post), ….. And players are still unhappy with the developer.
Can’t win on this one guys.
It’s also the customer’s responsibility to manage his/her kittening inventory. I think they are just taking a hard stance and forbidding macros (their idea of a macro is a key bind) so that it doesn’t get out of control.
Be careful what you wish for, Anet might just give it to you “HoT”
“…let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die;.”
Press your loot key when the exp notifications pop up. If you’ve tagged a player and he/she dies, the lootbag will appear at your feet, not next to their bodies.
Put an “endless” WvW autoloot bag into the Gem Store. All loot that falls in WvW automatically lands there whether dead or alive.
I can dream, right?
Understand there are issues with having the game actually auto-loot deposit, bags get full and loot gets left behind and the players aren’t aware it is happening, which would have players unhappy with the developer. With dropped bags, it’s the customers’ responsibility to pick up bags. If the loot gets missed, they have no one to blame but themselves. (see: my previous post), ….. And players are still unhappy with the developer.
Can’t win on this one guys.
It’s also the customer’s responsibility to manage his/her kittening inventory. I think they are just taking a hard stance and forbidding macros (their idea of a macro is a key bind) so that it doesn’t get out of control.
Agreed.
Customer’s responsibility to manage their own inventory. (Forgot to include that). I support the fact that macros need to be contained (for obvious reasons).
And they’ve done the best they could in WvW by having loot fall at your feet, even if you port quickly enough after being down.
I’d rather have the option to have it land automatically, and let me be responsible for dealing with missed loot due to lack of managing inventory.
In the meantime, it’s my job to remember to spam the aoe-loot button.
At least we can’t complain that loot doesn’t drop at all.
BG: 52 alts, 29 lvl 80’s.They all look good, so I am done with the game: Oct 2014
for almost a year i use a macro for that, no issues.
It wouldn’t be a good idea for them to punish a paying customer that buys gems and supports the game for a trivial autoloot when bots, hacks, and gold sellers are running rampant in the game.
Be careful what you wish for, Anet might just give it to you “HoT”
“…let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die;.”
Just keep pressing the pickup loot button sometimes in a battle when you get a loot near you, and when youre done with a battle just press ctrl to see if there is any bags somewhere.
