Guild Wars 2

Why this is so, in WvW?

You see, I’m an avid WvW’er, and I like my loot. I’m sure others do too, but what really gets on my nerves is when I die and countless loot bags, even steel chests at times (as pictured below, taken just today), fall right next to my corpse, and I am absolutely helpless in being able to pick it up – because I’m dead.

I missed out on ascended materials and a bit of other loot today, and this isn’t the first time either. For a while now I’ve been kicking and screaming about this issue but no one from GW2 seems to want to listen. Furthermore, I feel as though all my efforts in WvW are squashed like an insect when this happens, because the loot that drops when I’m dead, cannot be picked up.

Is there any chance at looking into this?

Perhaps an interface could pop up with any unclaimed loot – regardless of whether you’re dead or alive? I think this would be the most appropriate option.

I’m so disappointed in WvW right now because of this, and it seems as though all my efforts have gone to waste.

And yes, when I die, I do try to teleport as soon as I can so as to not miss out on any loot that drops at my feet – but I’m not Superman and I certainly can’t click at the speed of light. This has become such an issue to me that over the course of a few weeks I’ve taken the liberty to take a few screenshots of some of the loot I’ve missed out on. I know I’m not the only one.

In the third screenshot I was extremely fortunate that many players were around me to come to my rescue – though these occurrences happen very rarely, and if they weren’t there at the time, I would have missed out on 6 loot bags (and that has happened to me before).

Not sure if they are looking into this as I have yet to see them post anything about it despite it being brought up numerous times.

A lot of this can be alleviated by just spamming F to pick everything up as your killing despite some people telling you to just pick everything up after battle. That’s probably Anet’s thinking on it.

My personal feeling is though, I don’t think it’s too much skin off Anet’s back to just have them stack directly in our inventory (up to 250). If were at 250, then they just fall at our feet. Honestly, I would expected them to do this long before them giving us a collectibles tab that stacked various things in there like badges.

I try to make you understand. Bare with me as English is not my 1st language.

If we have the option to collect loots when we are dead. Players will abuse this option.
The wvwvw play style will be different. Tell me why should I fight, I just can aoe a zerg as much/many as I can then suicide myself. Now all I need to do is wait. Wait to collect lots of loot while I’m dead.

zombielovesong.3476:

I try to make you understand. Bare with me as English is not my 1st language.

If we have the option to collect loots when we are dead. Players will abuse this option.
The wvwvw play style will be different. Tell me why should I fight, I just can aoe a zerg as much/many as I can then suicide myself. Now all I need to do is wait. Wait to collect lots of loot while I’m dead.

It’s always been like that though – people just ‘tag’ players to get loot (guardians spamming staff #1 skill in zergs for example), and in my opinion I don’t feel that this has any relevance to the topic, but each to their own :-P All I’m suggesting is for us to be able to pick up loot that we rightfully earnt and deserve, when we’re dead. I’m not asking for anything extra or overpowered. If you were rewarded with loot, you should have the right to pick it up.

@DeadlySynz.3471, a collectibles tab for WvW that automatically stores any unclaimed loot that you missed out on? That would be awesome! Great idea.

if you’re dead, do you really deserve a reward?

Phantom.8130:

if you’re dead, do you really deserve a reward?

If you earnt a whole bunch of loot bags, do you really deserve to miss out on them just because you died in the split second when they all dropped?

Well I think we shouldnt have the right to pick them up while we are dead. Imagine sm, zergs fight, I just aoe/hit them as many as I can, I don’t care if we will win or not. Then I kill myself. I guess I will have lots of loots. Don’t you think?

A few things for everyone :
-When you die, you probably won’t get a ton of loot bags until 5-10 seconds because your death rallied other enemies that were down.
-When you WP, you still get your drops as you walk (but the OP knows this).

It’s frustrating to not be able to get your loot bags but really, just spam F as you kill stuff. If you die too quickly to do so, you probably aren’t going to get a lot of bags. If you decide to stick around hoping that your team will win or at least save you, it’s your gamble. Nothing is as frustrating as seeing a big chest you know contains something else than a loot bag, thus why you should limit your stay when you are dead in a lord room.

zombielovesong.3476:

Well I think we shouldnt have the right to pick them up while we are dead. Imagine sm, zergs fight, I just aoe/hit them as many as I can, I don’t care if we will win or not. Then I kill myself. I guess I will have lots of loots. Don’t you think?

The whole point in WvW though is to kill as many players as possible. To my logic, you shouldn’t have to worry about picking up your loot at all, really – because your focus should be on annihilating the enemy teams, not picking up your rewards… (and don’t get me started on the fact that “auto loot” doesn’t actually live up to its name by automatically picking up your loot when it’s dropped and being placed in your inventory, because you still have to press a button – which isn’t very automatic if you ask me – just saying :-P).

Imagine sm, zergs fight, I just aoe/hit them as many as I can, I don’t care if we will win or not

That would be the ideal scenario actually. Not having to worry about picking up your loot at all so that you can focus on the battle, but here, I just want the ability to pick up any unclaimed loot when I’m dead. It would be great if Anet made it so that any unclaimed loot bags were automatically placed in a WvW locker or your inventory, but that’s not what I’m suggesting – it would be great, but I highly doubt THAT would ever happen. I just want the loot I rightfully earnt.

I really don’t understand why players don’t want their well deserved loot?

Zaoda.1653:

Phantom.8130:

if you’re dead, do you really deserve a reward?

If you earnt a whole bunch of loot bags, do you really deserve to miss out on them just because you died in the split second when they all dropped?

yeah, because you died. if you survived, you’d deserve them. anyone with AoE can “earn” loot bags. it’s not hard at all. you don’t even need to do much damage anymore. you don’t deserve a reward for failure. that’s the self entitled attitude that’s the plague of modern MMOs. all being rewarded for failure does is cheapen the rewards for success. if you succeed, you deserve a reward. if you fail, you should do a better job next time.

Dying is not always failure. Did the person that ran in to contest a cap for just long enough for reinforcements to arrive fail by dying? If he hadn’t, that tower/keep would have been lost. Yet this system ensures that even the enemy team, which did fail, gets more of a reward than he does.

Coldtart.4785:

Dying is not always failure. Did the person that ran in to contest a cap for just long enough for reinforcements to arrive fail by dying? If he hadn’t, that tower/keep would have been lost. Yet this system ensures that even the enemy team, which did fail, gets more of a reward than he does.

if someone’s in to a circle to prevent a cap, they’re not going to have a bunch of lootbags at their feet.

Yet they deserve a bunch of lootbags more than any other player on the map.

Coldtart.4785:

Yet they deserve a bunch of lootbags more than any other player on the map.

but they wouldn’t have any to pick up. that’s what this thread is about. someone whining because they lost out on 6 loot bags. which most likely means that they were running with a zerg. they weren’t preventing a cap, they were engaged in combat. if they succeeded, they would still be alive to collect their loot bags. since they couldn’t, they failed.

….

Just forget I even made this thread. It seems all people want to do is flame me for dying, accuse me of being too lazy to teleport the split second I die without knowing the full story of the screenshot/s, or accuse me of something else. Good grief.

Just forget it then. Let this thread die and we can all enjoy our loot disappearing.

rallybots dont deserve bags

If your dead you cant shoot

If your dead you cant loot

WvW loot is poor anyway so do some pve for 30min if your really concerned about getting rewards

There is a code out there that automaticly places loot in your inventory.
There is also a code out there that makes loot display its nice yellow text without pressing keys..
I would suggest someone buying those codes for this game.
“~This is all speculation ofcourse~”

Or, make lootbags fill your inventory as actual.. “lootbags”

I am sure it has been suggested about over 10000*~ x2 but hey.. fudge it.

Zaoda.1653:

Phantom.8130:

if you’re dead, do you really deserve a reward?

If you earnt a whole bunch of loot bags, do you really deserve to miss out on them just because you died in the split second when they all dropped?

Yes, you deserve to miss out because you died

Don’t die. It’s just that simple.

I spam AoE loot during combat constantly. I never miss bags except when inventory is full.

It sucks when it happens but as others have said, if you died AND you lost the encounter(if your team had won, someone would be there to rez you) then you simply don’t deserve the loot.

In GW 1 any loot you forgot to pick up, over a certain time limit threshold, and j think just in dungeons, but maybe also during vanquishing, you would receive a pop up if you switched zones that would give you everything that you were unable to loot. Its not like Anet couldn’t mail you your stuff that you died next to. Maybe they are working on that.