I was grouping with a guildmate, last night in that pirate cove area in Tanaris, and we noticed that after to opened combat on a mob using my PP/CS macro we were able to loot from the mob twice! The second loot always was just coin.
I tested this again, after the server maintenance, thinking maybe it would be fixed and it was doing it again killing the Ogres in Tanaris solo.
Combined with the PP loot coin, I bet I was looting on average around 10s per kill as long as I opened with my stealth opener. When an add happened, or I pulled with a throwing dagger it did NOT do the double loot thing…ONLY after using the stealth opener.
I thought someone should know. Since this is a base mechanic of my Rogue class, I think it is unreasonable to expect me to stop using my stealth openers…and resist the extra coin!? Yeah, no. LOL
I did mention it in guild chat last night and this morning, but mainly to see if others were seeing the same type of thing. FYI/full discloser.
if you use your pickpocket and did not wait for the coins to be looted that is what you are getting after the kill loot is looted. have had this happened on my rogue alt when going a dungeon spamming my macro while waiting for the tank to get aggro so i could start killing
have to remember…there are 2 loot tables when running with a rogue. the first table is the rogue only pickpocket table…the second is the normal kill loot. good practice to pickpocket everything as the boxes that you start to get from mobs will have poison reagents meaning you are not spending as much at the vendor to get your consumables. If you are running in a group with more then 1 rogue you all sharer the same pickpocket table. if rogue 1 pickpockets the mob then rogue 2 will not be able to pickpocket anything.
Thank you. I’m glad it’s probably not what I thought it was. It is strange that it has only happened during the past 24hours or so.
Then again, I’m sure the servers are under a lot more strain than normal nowadays, so server lag accounts for what you describe as well.
Still weird that is has only seem to happen recently, but maybe I didn’t notice it before.
shrug
I noticed this constantly once I macro’d pick pocket into all my stealth openers. Sometimes I loot the mob during the opener, sometimes I don’t, but if I don’t, the coins (but none of the items) are available on the mob, on death, but only after I’ve looted their normal loot.
Foncused the hell out of me.