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ashkedawn
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Not sure if this is supposed to go in a different area or not but I couldn't find anyplace for suggestions.
My suggestion is for skirmishes, and only skirmishes. Have it set up so that people can only loot the stuff on the ground when there are no mobs on the field. This would stop the constant spam when someone decides to pick up loot instead of fight and the the screen fills up with the Need/Greed/Pass windows. Skirmishes are short enough that nothing is going to disappear from the ground and by not allowing looting while mobs are on the field you can be a little more sure that everyone is actually focusing on the fight.
My suggestion is for skirmishes, and only skirmishes. Have it set up so that people can only loot the stuff on the ground when there are no mobs on the field. This would stop the constant spam when someone decides to pick up loot instead of fight and the the screen fills up with the Need/Greed/Pass windows. Skirmishes are short enough that nothing is going to disappear from the ground and by not allowing looting while mobs are on the field you can be a little more sure that everyone is actually focusing on the fight.
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Events never occurred to me as I seldom participate, but yeah, for dungeons and events as well then.
Actually, loot does fade out after a period of time, though I haven't sat down with a stopwatch to figure out how long it persists.
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Individuals could also set up their own preferences. You could have need always for runestones. Need only for blue or higher. Pass on all greens and lower with exceptions for runestones.
I know in skirmishes I can't believe level 60 toons are bothering with the green 60 items, I know I don't want them but obviously some people do. I would want a chance at any runestones and blues though. So if I was able to set my own prefs...roll need only on blue or higher...exception runestones. Then any skirmish or dungeon I entered would follow those rules unless the leader of a skirmish or dungeon set it differently. So if it was set to need dungeon, then everyone would get a roll on everything they could use and everything else would be greed...but my rules would further refine those rules and I would be excluded from any green loot with the exception of runestones which I would be rolled need just like everyone else, and then blues I would be rolled like everyone else. If the leader rolled greed then I would still be excluded from all green items, but everything else runestones and all blues I would be rolled greed just like everyone else.
I doubt that they would do any of this, but still, something to fix the spam windows in the middle of the screen would be nice if they can't come up with a better fix. But they should be able to limit people looting when mobs are active, they do it now for chests and nodes, shouldn't be that much harder to add loot to that I would think.
I would especially argue that all profession nodes and chests should be made exclusive to the character and not the even worse system of first come first serve for most drops and party shared on unidentified items.
This would stop the complaining about the loot roll pop ups as they'd become so rare as to become a non-issue. Not that they shouldn't be move-able via the UI editor, but in the end moving the loot spam doesn't help as much as getting rid of it.
Okay, Panic.
But what about characters who dont have all the AoE's, namely TR if you were to do that ,agreed with chests but not point 1
I think it is safe to say that it doesn't fade out in the few seconds it takes to destroy most groups of mobs and leave combat.
I have a "better" idea. Set all skirmishes to the same loot mode as the CTA events.
(Better is, of course, a matter of personal opinion)
In CTAs they appear to use the same drop rules as in any other group content. Seemingly regardless of whether the specific player character does any damage to a mob or not, as long as they're in the party when it dies then potentially items drop for them. The only exception in a group would be the enchants like dragon hoard, fey blessing, etc. Those require you get the actual killing blow in order to have a chance at a proc.
The difference in a CTA, compared to other group content, is that the drops each character sees are ONLY for that character, no loot rolls are needed.
So there would be no reason to worry about tagging all the mobs in order to get drops.
Okay, Panic.