It’s frustrating to retrace your steps for loot bags while participating in wvw. There are more important things to worry about during battles and competitive play than scavenging around for earned rewards.
Have there been any statements regarding considerations for loot to be automatically placed into your inventory bags after a kill? Perhaps a mention of a pop up chest that accumulates your rewards? Something? Anything?
Well it is quite easy to just activate AoE-loot and bind it to a key that you press now and then during the fight, doesn’t take more a second and doesn’t really influence the fight.
I assigned my area loot button to a mouse key and tap it after a kill. That seems to fix the problem.
I assigned AoE loot to CTRL+F (not AoE Loot on interact) and I just spam it during fights. 900-range loot too good.
Protip: If you are a downed Ele, you can just mistform in the direction of your loot bags and grab them that way.
Totally fair.
I assigned aoe loot to Z. Bottom left key, easy to hit mid fight.
Well it is quite easy to just activate AoE-loot and bind it to a key that you press now and then during the fight, doesn’t take more a second and doesn’t really influence the fight.
ok i’ll try that. would still be a nice QoL change to not manually collect your loot so players can fully focus on play and not pick up.
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It would be much easier if generic bags (which you open with loot tables similar to the loot players already drop) were dropped from players like the types dropped from champions.
That way you can open them in your own time and not have a million different types of blues greens whites and trash clogging up your inventory. It takes away from the immersion of wvw when you have to stop and try to sort out your bags.
AoE loot for the win!
Protip: If you are a downed Ele, you can just mistform in the direction of your loot bags and grab them that way.
Totally fair.
lol nice.
on the topic of dying… I know in some cases it’s not a major issue to hit the collect button, but during skirmishes and battles you end up all over the place trying to survive and when you go down your sol. there are also instances where you just can’t get back to the area and claim your loot so players are losing out at times.
Protip: If you are a downed Ele, you can just mistform in the direction of your loot bags and grab them that way.
Totally fair.
lol nice.
on the topic of dying… I know in some cases it’s not a major issue to hit the collect button, but during skirmishes and battles you end up all over the place trying to survive and when you go down your sol. there are also instances where you just can’t get back to the area and claim your loot so players are losing out at times.
… or you run back after dying to pick up your bags, and they all despawned.
It’s frustrating to retrace your steps for loot bags while participating in wvw. There are more important things to worry about during battles and competitive play than scavenging around for earned rewards.
Have there been any statements regarding considerations for loot to be automatically placed into your inventory bags after a kill? Perhaps a mention of a pop up chest that accumulates your rewards? Something? Anything?
Not an issue for me. I press f as I run.
Since the bags are dropping right where the player is when the ennemy is killed (it does not appear where the ennemy died), regularly pushing whatever button was assigned to AOE loot isn’t the end of the world…
The only “lost” bags are the ones a player got while in downed state – if the player respawn right after it’s death, that is, instead of waiting there…
I agree, it would be nice to have an automated loot- pick-up option, but the AOE loot is not a bad option, and if it can get some people to respawn faster, in order to lose as few bags as possible, all the better…
a simple solution would be when you WP, all bags you haven’t collected WP with you.
This way if you die and can’t be brought back up, you can WP and still get the rewards you earned.
Bound area loot to the shift key and every action on my mouse is bound to Shift+XYZ including dodge, heal, PTT, etc. Each time I activate a Shifted key it auto area loots. This is probably technically against the ToS, but it does fix a fairly ridiculous design in the engine and does not unbalance game play.
My bags fill up too quickly, sometimes I have to break stuff down mid-fight while I’m spamming 1.
#GuardianProblems
We often use turtle tactic middle of fight so we can salvage all items.
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