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Subject: do you pick up loot?
on your low level toons? high level toons?

i always used to pick up loot even on lowbie mobs. but its such a pain to keep clicking even with autoloot especially when the looting takes more time than the killing. i am always paranoid i will miss a quest starting drop or some rare drop though.

i notice some people in level 85 dungeon finder groups don't even loot corpses at that level.


with all the easymode stuff in WoW i kinda wish looting was just made automatic. even in daoc, a game a decade old, it was easier to loot since you could just hit a button to target nearest loot and loot all.

 

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i loot everytime...regardless of mob/lvl. i just looted 22k BoE caster gloves in Tol B. doing dailies.

 

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thats exactly why im scared to not loot. but in all my years of WoW i never found anything like that when solo. i think i will quit looting on my alts at least though. feels like picking up loot is 75% of the game when playing my baby worgen druid.

 

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it was my first epic i ever looted solo, and been playing since beta.

 

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Always. The one time you pass something up, may be the one item you needed.

 

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I have always been a loot whore, ever since AC. I would loot everything and my friend would always rag on me... I just told him... "it's all gold (pyreals) in the end, and it all adds up."

That's why I always have a sell loot type addon going. Even greys add up.

 

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yes even the junk

 

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As a hunter I love Loot a rang. saves time running to corpses.

 

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no, only the silver and copper on my shammy since my pally brings in the money. my mage is different since its on a server by itself and no other high levels to support it.

 

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I rarely loot doing TB dailies mostly because there is such competition for the mobs there.

 

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I loot everything. I too probably got the habit from AC... with everything being RNG in that game, you looted everything, or at least LOOKED at everything. In WoW, I just turn on Autoloot and loot everything.

If I'm doing a quest where I'm killing many things, I'll usually kill 3-5 mobs first, then loot them all at once. Seems quicker that way rather than kill/loot/kill/loot. I can leave no sparkly untouched though... I loot/herb/mine/whatever is in my sight. It seems I'm always poor, so the more I can get the better.

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As a hunter I love Loot a rang. saves time running to corpses.
How very Legend of Zelda of them. This looks awesome and I want one, but I'm not playing any toons with engineering right now... sad

 

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I loot everything as well, go a few epics and blues.

 

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When soloing, yes, always. When grouped for a random or some other really fast paced activity, since I am usually tanking it and therefor almost always determining the pace we go, then no I rarely stop to loot. I can remember COUNTLESS times that skinners were cussing me out because I would not stop and run back 200 ft to loot that random critter with a grey 2 silver junk item claw on it so they could skin.

Although of course for new content, meaning new loot when a new expansion is out, sure I will definately make more of an effort then to stop and clean the floor. But really, if you have been playing WoW for any significant amount of time and especially if you are starting over on a new character with BoA gear/weapons, is there really anything that you could loot that will be all that useful to you? Especially if you do alot of the randoms and are therefor filling up the majority of your slots with dungeon completion rewards or boss loot?

 

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I usually loot everything, but if my bags are getting full and I can't get to a vendor, then I start throwing out stuff that's not worth much money.

Even when I'm not actively looting, I will at least look at the contents just in case they drop something valuable, as I found out when I nabbed a rare purple parrot from a pirate during a quest in booty bay where they attack the town. My guildies told me that it was worth anywhere from 6-15k, and I made about 7k off that one drop in the AH. I suppose I could've gotten more, but eh, that's the most I ever made from one item happy

 

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To paraphrase people in another thread here, why play WoW if not for the loot/rewards? Gotta grab everything the game gives you.

 

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Liquid741 posted:
it was my first epic i ever looted solo, and been playing since beta.


same, 2 weeks ago on my new worgen. now I won't pass up anything wink

 

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i don't like wasting either but its just that when picking up loot takes more time than anything else in game, it feels wrong (this is on my lowbie alt where i kill very fast). when i first starting playing WoW i remember i thought how ridiculously tedious it was to pick up loot...there must be some way to bind a button to target loot/pick it up, but i never seen such a thing.


i do however mine/herb every node i see since they actually give exp now. on that note i have a question: is mining/herb the ONLY tradeskills that give exp? what about skinning animals, or disenchanting stuff, etc? do they give exp? i am trying to make the ultimate leveler so all i care about is exp so i will pick my skills based on that

 

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i don't like wasting either but its just that when picking up loot takes more time than anything else in game, it feels wrong (this is on my lowbie alt where i kill very fast). when i first starting playing WoW i remember i thought how ridiculously tedious it was to pick up loot...there must be some way to bind a button to target loot/pick it up, but i never seen such a thing.


i do however mine/herb every node i see since they actually give exp now. on that note i have a question: is mining/herb the ONLY tradeskills that give exp? what about skinning animals, or disenchanting stuff, etc? do they give exp? i am trying to make the ultimate leveler so all i care about is exp so i will pick my skills based on that

From what I've seen so far, only mining, herbing, and archaeology give you xp (archaeology was giving my 84 mage about 30k xp per artifact find, which added up quite a bit after a while, but not as fast as just killing mobs/questing). Be nice if skinning gave you xp too, even if it was only at a reduced amount compared to the other ones.

 

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aww thats a shame. i woulda liked to been a skinner too if it gave exp for the worgen's skill bonus. i guess mining/herb combo is good enough since we can search for both type of nodes at the same time now.

 

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I use wowglider strictly for the autolooting feature. Honest

 

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man how I miss that...

 

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Autolooting is even easier in DAoC now. You don't have to push anything at all.

 

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When you guys say 7k, 15k, 22k, etc., what do you mean?

Actually 7,000 gold? That seems like an insane number, but then again, I've been gone a long time.

 

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I have 25k gold right now and I'm not a farmer of any sort. Gold in WoW is kinda pointless except to buy gems/enchants/etc.

 

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Trigeminal posted:
I have 25k gold right now and I'm not a farmer of any sort. Gold in WoW is kinda pointless except to buy gems/enchants/etc.
Wow. I only have about 8G, but that's on my new level 22.

 

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yeah 7k is 7000 gold. its a significant amount but not a huge amount. for example i have 200k and i don't farm gold in particular ever...just from selling what i get

 

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Just a week ago I was leveling arch in Cape of Stranglethorn on my main. There was a mob in the way so I killed it. I almost didn't loot it, then ran back and did.

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Morridyne posted:
Just a week ago I was leveling arch in Cape of Stranglethorn on my main. There was a mob in the way so I killed it. I almost didn't loot it, then ran back and did.

Razzashi Hatchling.



that's why you loot.

 

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Liquid741 posted:
Morridyne posted:
Just a week ago I was leveling arch in Cape of Stranglethorn on my main. There was a mob in the way so I killed it. I almost didn't loot it, then ran back and did.

Razzashi Hatchling.



that's why you loot.



Yup! happy

Because you know the ONE time you walk away and don't loot.......

 

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I always open the corpse. As to whether I loot the items, I typically do not unless they are green or above. I do however always take the cash.

 

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I DON'T CARE WHICH OF YOU MTHRFKRS ISN'T DOING IT, I WILL KICK YOU OUT OF THE RAID IF I FIND OUT WHO IT IS! LOOT THE FKN DOGS!

 

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I auto loot.

I found (before BoAs and thousands in an alt bank to distribute funds to other toons) that if you loot everything you can make money quickly. I remember the bear carcases in Tarren Mill went for 1 silver a piece. I was psyched at the time, so I always loot.

I actually got an epic drop from a scorpion in Tanaris years ago. A one handed axe.

 

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Always, all toons, all levels.

I had over 500k gold when cata released and I *still* loot everything.

People who don't loot are fools for either being lazy or for being cheaters that buy gold for cash.

 

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I loot it all and leave for the city as soon as my bags are full. Mail most of it to my auction toon and vendor sell the rest.

 

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I always loot except the very lowest of levels (like 1-10) on ranged classes.

It drives me crazy when I group with my friend who never loots - I don't know if it's laziness, impatience, or absentmindedness, but he's always broke.

 

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Always. Even if I don't auction it or use it, vendors will buy it.

 

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I loot everything.

 

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Maybe I'm missing something, but looting really doesn't seem to take that long for me with autoloot on...


Edit: Although, I wouldn't be terribly bothered if they just automated the entire looting process either. I guess I should say, 'when they just automate..." wink

 

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My favorite: people who don't loot anything, and then whine about how they're always broke & can't ever afford anything.

Loot, dammit.

 

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I loot everything, and will even run backwards in a group for a sparkly corpse.

 

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back before Cata was about to hit, I was over in theramore waiting to do Onyxia and while at the meeting/summong stone I got bored and decided to kill some mobs in the area. I happened to loot a Dazzling Longsword off one of the corpses there out of the blue. Was pretty neat, am glad now that I looted the body. lol.

 

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I loot everything, and will even run backwards in a group for a sparkly corpse.


^This, many a group has died because they didn't check to see if I was in range

 

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Arcilite_I posted:
Foojo posted:
I loot everything, and will even run backwards in a group for a sparkly corpse.


^This, many a group has died because they didn't check to see if I was in range


Could not agree more with the sentiment here.

In late WOTLK I did the same thing on all my characters. On my tank, most people waited, one or two died. On my DPS, nobody waited, nobody cared, on my healer, several times people died.

I REFUSED flat out, ABSOLUTELY REFUSED to be led through a dungeon at breakneck pace by one of those ADD tanks who wouldn't wait for me to loot and enjoyed thoroughly when some of them died.

Looting takes very little time and is built into the time that I will spend in a dungeon. Don't like it, kick me.

 

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I would rather people dont loot, then be looting in the middle of a pull.

but I remember when I played my healer, I was always medding and if I took the 2 more seconds to loot... I would fall behind.

blues+ are lootable by all, so odds of having everyone skip those should be pretty high.


When Im doing PL work, I tend to not loot anything but bosses or big pulls. My GF used to tag along behind and do my looting, but that pc sploded... so shes in constant loot denial. She watches me play and I ignore all loot. She'll be wispering to me ... loot... loot... loot.

with 4 level 85 mages, if I need coin... I'll go farm some. wink

 

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I'm a loot hog. I MUST pick up loot. Although my bags are usually full but 11s at a time adds up! tongue Besides there might an RoG epic somewhere!

 

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