I don’t remember Autoloot failing so often before the Dragon expansion. Why can’t Blizzard make this simple feature work consistently? Often it fails after entering a new zone, but it also just randomly fails all the time when looting herbs, dungeon mobs, anything.
Has anyone figured out a way to make it work better? Any secret addon or trick? It’s so annoying!
It fails when the same item ID gets dropped repeatedly.
No trick to circumvent it AFAIK.
Edit: As mentioned below, the Plumber addon with its custom loot window, fixes the issue.
It’s perplexing, sometimes seemingly simple bugs are left as is for months or even years, yet other bugs (say we’re getting a little more gold or XP than we should be getting) are hotfixed as if their lives depend on it lol
I guess it’s just a triage type situation, but the player base and Blizzard have a very different way of looking at which bugs are the most important.
It’s so damn annoying. Click click clicky click. Pick up the damn loot! Screeeeeeeeeeee!
Plumber. It does other stuff, but is modular so you can just turn on that part if you want.
Just close and reopen the loot window.
Yeah same, i hit Esc to close it and then loot again and it works the 2nd time.
The same team that can’t get their base UI to function correctly wants to replace 3rd party addons with their own versions. What could go wrong?
Op: There’s a thread in the bug report forum that Blizz has ignored for quite a while now, but feel free to give it a bump.
I wish there was a setting to make killing an enemy just deposit their loot (or at least the gold) in your bags like Torghast style looting
I like that. Auto-autoloot
they need to make it like lotro. where there is a loot window, and a timer, you can pick whatever after a certain amount of time (i think its an hour there?) option. our auto-loot been broken for a minute and i highly doubt it’s prio like most things.
Seems to happen often when there is like 4+ loot items, clicking the X and looting again always works but its annoying as heck in a group when trying to keep up with them.
What’s amazing to me is that an addon is able to fix this, but Blizzard can’t. Blizzard is spending a lot of time lately on doing in-game integrations, meaning a lot of LUA code, yet they can’t borrow this simple fix. This is something people are actually asking for.
I’ve used this for years. It removes most of the annoyances with looting in general.
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/auto-loot-plus
Then combine it with this.
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/improved-loot-frame
This. I forgot this bug existed once I started using Plumber.