Failure to collect money from dead MOB bug

Failure to collect money from dead MOB bug

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Posted by: Kiroth.4579

Kiroth.4579

Q:

I’ve been playing GuildWars 2 since its release and .. as I remember it.. I have always had this issue with sometimes not being able to collect the money (no matter the amount) from a dead MOB/NPC.
I can collect any other items dropped by the MOB but not money. I think its a 50/50 chance for me to be able to pick it up or not.

It doesn’t always happen, but it happens regularly enough to be annoying, especially from a boss. The last time it happened was after defeating Tequatl .. I couldn’t loot the 1 gold in the main chest.

I’m sure this has to have been discussed, though I finally had to mention it (have I done this before? lol no idea) since for a bug from day one to still be bug after all this time is very strange. (my searching for topics in the forum search system doesn’t seem to work what so ever, and has always been this way! has this always been broken?).

Does anyone have this issue or know of a solution?

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Posted by: Illconceived Was Na.9781

Illconceived Was Na.9781

Foes don’t drop coin all the time. I also don’t think it’s possible to loot a chest without removing all its contents, unless your inventory is full already.

This is also the first time I’ve seen anyone reporting anything similar. (Obviously, I haven’t read every forum or reddit bug report, but I have seen tons and this one is something new to me.)

site:reddit.com inurl:guildwars2 can’t loot money

site:forum-en.guildwars2.com inurl:forum inurl:bugs collect coin

using variations of the above google searches, I wasn’t able to find any similar examples (the only links I found pertained to Coin Purses or TP)

Any time I’ve checked, my wallet always grows fatter after looting chests that do contain coin (although, as noted above, many do not).

What steps could someone else take to try to replicate the issue you are seeing?

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Failure to collect money from dead MOB bug

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Posted by: Kiroth.4579

Kiroth.4579

Foes don’t drop coin all the time. I also don’t think it’s possible to loot a chest without removing all its contents, unless your inventory is full already.

This is also the first time I’ve seen anyone reporting anything similar. (Obviously, I haven’t read every forum or reddit bug report, but I have seen tons and this one is something new to me.)

site:reddit.com inurl:guildwars2 can’t loot money

site:forum-en.guildwars2.com inurl:forum inurl:bugs collect coin

using variations of the above google searches, I wasn’t able to find any similar examples (the only links I found pertained to Coin Purses or TP)

Any time I’ve checked, my wallet always grows fatter after looting chests that do contain coin (although, as noted above, many do not).

What steps could someone else take to try to replicate the issue you are seeing?

Yeah coins don’t appear much on dead enemies but when they do show coins, usually with other items, there is a chance that I cannot collect the coins but I can still collect the other things like trash and gear. I always make sure I have enough room for looting but I don’t think coin is affected by full bags anyway. Definitely a bug, I would have thought I wasn’t the only one :S

Even if I try leaving the loot on the ground for a bit, then try again later – it still can’t be picked up. Thankfully it happens half the time and not all the time, otherwise I’d be kicking up more of a stink about it.

I did find something on these forums (using google), can’t find the link now, saying something about having auto loot on fixes this issue.. I haven’t tried it yet, but this could be a work around?
We’ll see… if its not I’ll update this post. Thanks for your efforts!

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Posted by: ExtraCosmic.9082

ExtraCosmic.9082

I’ve had this exact same issue as long as I can remember, likely since launch as well. It seems less frequent than 50%, and I don’t believe I’ve ever had it happen with chests, but it’s often enough to be extremely annoying. I haven’t noticed anything obviously replicatable about it, which may be why it’s been around so long. Every now and then when an enemy dies, there’s coin in the loot popup but I can’t take it. It’s especially frustrating during high-density enemy kills and the bugged money keeps coming up when I’m trying to loot the other corpses. The issue seems to be completely random, from any enemy, with any character, with any amount of loot in my bags.

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Posted by: nottsgman.8206

nottsgman.8206

do either of you have a problem with collecting coins when Autoloot is ticked in the options menu?

I’m asking because I have always had the option ticked, and everything gets looted, coins and all when pressing the ‘f’ key (unless I don’t have bag space). might be worth a try if you haven’t already

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