Wow if You Kill a Boss Then Kill It Again Master Loot

Glitter issue indicating that there is loot.

In World of Warcraft, loot can mean a couple of things:

1. Stuff (treasure: items or coin) y'all go from mobs or containers (barrels, boxes, chests, etc).
2. The act (to boodle; looting) of getting the stuff mentioned higher up.

Contents

• 1 Looting while solo
• 2 Annexation while in a party
  • ii.ane Personal Loot
  • 2.2 Legacy Loot Mode
  • ii.iii Quest loot
• 3 Battlegrounds
• 4 Notes
• 5 Older boodle methods
  • 5.1 Boodle options: Need, Greed, Disenchant and Pass
  • 5.2 Group policies and other boodle options
  • 5.3 Looting etiquette
  • 5.4 Secondary rolls
  • 5.5 Loot systems
• 6 Gallery
• seven Patch changes
• 8 See likewise
• 9 References

Looting while solo

When soloing, looting is piece of cake — a "lootable" corpse emits a "glittering" effect, and the cursor will change to the "merchandise" cursor when you mouse over the corpse. But right-click (or Command-click on a Mac with 1-push button mouse) on the corpse of the mob you just killed, and a window will popular up containing any loot the mob was carrying. (If the boodle window is empty, this commonly indicates a bug, equally corpses that take no loot on them merely cannot be right-clicked.) Using Shift-right/Command-click "autoloots" the corpse, which picks upwards all items except "Demark on Pickup" items. For Bind on Pickup items, yous volition be prompted to accept the particular, binding it to you, or turn it down, leaving information technology in the corpse. You lot tin return and boodle the corpse of any remaining items until information technology disappears.

Annexation while in a political party

Personal Loot

Introduced in Mists of Pandaria, Personal boodle is the default for all group content. Under personal loot, the game chooses a number of players (based on group size) and awards them a random detail for their spec, while everyone else receives an corporeality of golden specific to them. Mounts can likewise be won via this method from bosses that drop them. Similar solo annexation, the drops are retrieved by directly annexation the corpse of the boss, with the chat logs showing who's won something. Boodle from Personal Loot is tradeable to anyone in the grouping, as long as it is as well not an ilvl upgrade for yourself.

The Bonus Roll system, also introduced in Mists of Pandaria, uses this boodle type as well. Players in possession of a specific token, such as the [Seal of Cleaved Fate] , will be given a chance to spend the token for some other try at boodle from a recently defeated boss. This can be washed on any difficulty also every bit on earth bosses. The run a risk of obtaining boodle from a boss driblet is currently theorized to exist approximately 15% (equivalent to an average of 3.75 items from a 25-player kill), only this has not been confirmed.

Finally, Legion legendary and artifact quest items are treated as what's called 'personal button loot', pregnant these items exercise not need to be directly looted from the boss' corpse and are instead directly placed in the thespian's inventory.

This loot method is preferred by developers and, with Boxing for Azeroth, has replaced the other methods.

Legacy Loot Manner

Introduced in the Battle for Azeroth pre-patch, Legacy Loot Fashion is automatically enabled when a player enters an example at eleven levels or more to a higher place the maximum level of the content. Nether Legacy Loot rules, drops will include a chance for all items that would drib for a full political party or raid at the instance'due south level.

Quest loot

Quest loot is on a separate boodle distribution and at that place are two common modes for this to occur.

1. For most quests which require collecting several items of a type (harpy feathers for instance), the quest items will drop on some mobs and be looted in the normal style, except that if the electric current looter can't collect the items (not on quest, already has full set) and then the quest loot is FFA for those members who can nevertheless pick up the quest items. Other items on the corpse are governed by the party loot setting. On some quests, the quest boodle is always free-for-all.
2. For almost quests where the political party is to collect one of a specific particular from a specific mob (Collect the head of (mob name here)) and then regardless of boodle setting, each fellow member may boodle the quest detail off the same corpse. The other boodle on the corpse is field of study to the party loot setting. Though less frequent, this sometimes occurs even on quests that require looting multiple items from a type of mob (such as the [Shaman Voodoo Charm] for  [i-xxx] The Sleeping Druid ).

Battlegrounds

In battlegrounds, players tin can loot enemy corpses. This will remove their insignia so that they must revive at the graveyard, and give the looter a small sum of money. Note that if the player's ghost is running toward the corpse when its insignia is removed, he'll accept to run all the manner back to the graveyard to resurrect, so it may be wise to await a moment before looting. Annexation the actor's corpse volition also force its spirit to release, if they have not already done and so, thus preventing their ghost from spying on the area effectually their corpse.

Notes

In that location is a common misconception among game mechanics analysts that the Gambler's Fallacy applies to the case of getting a specific loot item to driblet at to the lowest degree in one case from a mob by repeatedly farming said mob. This is not exactly truthful. It is correct that every unmarried fourth dimension you kill said mob, the chance of the desired boodle dropping is constant. Even so, the probability of getting the desired loot to driblet at least once in a commonage set of multiple kills is not abiding. Rather, information technology is a normal probability density part centered on the expected number of kills for the loot to drop at least once.^[i]

In some situations, however, developers have implemented what's known as 'bad-luck protection' which does actually increase the chances of a certain particular dropping. Withal, the uses of this system are sporadic and specific, tied to things such every bit Hidden Artifact Appearances.

Older loot methods

The other loot methods bachelor to parties before patch eight.0.1 were vastly more complicated. The leader of the political party could set the group looting parameters, as well equally the threshold where items of particular quality are automatically rolled for. There are five grouping annexation parameters:

• Free-for-all: (FFA) First-come, starting time-serve. Yous snooze, you lot lose. This is a good setting if you are assisting someone and intend for them to be able to loot all the kills, or if your party is not in the same expanse, this setting will prevent meaningless whorl prompts. It also makes sense when grouping somewhere that isn't a dungeon when it'south very unlikely a really valuable item volition drop.

• Master Loot: Ane person in the grouping, designated past the leader, loots all corpses and distributes the loot. This setting can be unpopular with party members, especially in choice-up groups, considering it gives the Master Looter a lot of power to corruption, and requires a lot of trust. However, if the Principal Looter is trustworthy, fair, and knows what (s)he is doing, this tin be the fairest system. Sometimes Master Loot is used in identify of a random-roll arrangement in raids, in which case the designated principal looter loots the dominate and then announces the looted items one past one. Whoever needs the announced item then types /roll in the conversation prompt, which initiates an private numeric coil. The one who has the highest roll is awarded the item. This boodle type is only available to order-group raids.

• Round-robin: Party members have turns looting corpses. Seems like it might be fair, "What drops, drops", but a savvy role player can dispense the order that kills are made and get a asymmetric amount of amend loot.

• Group Loot: Like Round-robin, except that in that location is a threshold set by the leader for which items must be rolled off (see details in the following word). Group Loot is commonly used because it is a reasonable compromise based on a mostly deserved lack of trust for other players. It is a baseline attempt at fairness at best. It is besides the default setting for all groups exterior Random Dungeons.

• Need before Greed: Party members who are unable to equip the item being rolled are not given the choice to "need" roll on it, meaning those that can equip the item have an automatic preference on information technology if they want it. Non as off-white equally it seems at first glance. Only because you tin can equip an item does not mean you need it. This is the unalterable default for pickup groups created via the new Dungeon Finder interface introduced in Patch 3.3.

In all loot settings, coin on the corpse is distributed every bit evenly as possible amongst all the party members.

The group leader may set an item quality threshold. Items below this threshold are handled in a round-robin way preventing people from wasting time rolling for vendor trash. Past default, uncommon and better items are rolled for. In raids, it's common to raise the threshold to rare or epic, since uncommon items are insignificant to players equipped enough to raid.

Loot options: Need, Greed, Disenchant and Pass

Items of Uncommon (green) quality or higher might non be immediately lootable, depending on the loot rolling threshold established by the party leader. When an item is bachelor that falls within that rolling threshold, the looter is prohibited from taking the item and a 'curlicue window' pops up for all political party members with an prototype of the item and three or four buttons — a pair-of-dice button, a money button, and a blood-red circumvolve with diagonal line button, and possibly a button showing a disintegrating sword.

	Need: Mouse over the picture of the item to see its characteristics, and if you lot want to accept it to use, click the pair-of-dice push to randomly generate a number from 1 to 100. This is a 'demand' roll and the item should exist an upgrade for y'all. If information technology is an upgrade for your offspec (e.one thousand. healing plate for a tanking paladin), it'south generally okay to click Need, but only if no one else needs the item for their principal spec. Warning: If you 'need' every drop, you lot will probable be branded a ninja and have trouble finding groups.
	Greed: If you want it to sell, ship to an alt, etc., click the coin button for a "greed" gyre. This will only result in a roll if no 1 chooses need.
	Disenchant: This is only bachelor if someone in your group has the Enchanting profession, and enough skill in it to [Disenchant] the item. If no one rolls Need, players rolling Disenchant and Greed roll together. If someone who selected Disenchant wins, they become the dusts, essences, shards or crystals produced from disenchanting the item. These are ofttimes, but not ever, worth more than the item itself. A mod that lists the expected value of disenchanting the item may be useful.
	Pass: If y'all don't want the item, click the abolish button and you will 'laissez passer' on the item.

The high-roller among those who curl is awarded the item, and it goes in that character'southward backpack. If their backpack is full, that person, and only that person, may loot it by clicking on the monster'due south corpse after first immigration upwards infinite.

If everyone passes on a rollable item, the item becomes freely lootable to anyone in the party.

The curl window has a timer shown equally a shrinking bar; if the timer expires before you choose "need" or "greed", you lot will "pass" on the item. This is generally the recommended activeness for Bind on pickup items that you cannot equip.

For very valuable Bind on Equip items - which almost any player tin can be expected to sell on the Auction House - it is sometimes customary for everyone to click Greed unless someone actually needs it for equipping. Need should not be used unless the role player really needs it. In Dungeon Finder groups, a BoE particular will by and large become Soulbound if the actor rolls Need, then this is generally a safe policy for BoE items.

On the other hand, if i person rolls Need when everybody else has rolled Greed, the Needy player volition automatically win. This is commonly referred to as "ninja looting", though Blizzard does not see it as such and more often than not volition not intervene. To prevent arguments, yous may wish to discuss a looting policy beforehand if you know that the case has a adventure to drop a rare item, whether BoE gear or a vanity item such as the [Fiery Warhorse'southward Reins] . If a player agrees to such a policy, then violates information technology, yous may be able to find a sympathetic GM who will restore the particular.

Since patch 5.0.four, when a player wins a loot roll, a new pop upwardly window (similar to achievements) appears letting the role player know they won the roll and likewise displays their winning scroll number.

Group policies and other loot options

• The generally accustomed looting policy is to demand on items you plan to use now or in the near futurity (1 or 2 levels). Generally people greed or laissez passer on gear, and pass on profession recipes they do not desire or demand. Sometimes if a grouping fellow member is unhappy with the outcome of a whorl, another gyre will be done using the /roll control. It is generally expected to greed or pass on a lockbox if one comes upwardly; anyone who needs on one will probable be branded a ninja looter.
• Some groups accept a policy that, when a bind on pickup item is found as loot, all characters are expected to 'pass' on the item so that a more than deliberate choice can be fabricated. Information technology's skilful to know if your grouping follows this policy before you find such an item. While this system does nothing to stop a ninja from taking an item, some groups still insist on using it. Going against the grain while in a group commonly merely creates unrest and fights over loot.
• If yous are the group leader, or the grouping leader seems levelheaded, information technology would exist wise to use (or ask to employ) the normal, built-in annexation systems. While a ninja can still roll need on items they practise non actually need, other people who practice need the item volition still accept a shot at information technology, rather than the ninja merely picking it up afterwards everyone passes, or rolling after everyone else has passed.
• Often, Instances will be run with 1 graphic symbol of much higher level leading the accuse. This is frequently done in clans where senior members want to help others in acquiring good loot. In these cases, it is common that the senior party member will serve as party leader and set boodle settings to Master Loot, so as to best distribute all loot.
• Some other common protocol for distributing chest loot is 'high to depression', where the highest level fellow member of the group gets first crack at the chest, takes anything he likes, then annihilation left is available for the adjacent highest level group fellow member, etc., until the breast is empty or no one wishes to take annihilation else. Money in chests is distributed evenly among the party members who are nearby just similar money from corpses.
• Many players consider it to be very rude if someone intentionally loots a corpse while combat is still going on. To avoid whatsoever conflicts, it is best to wait until combat is over and everyone has been rezzed (waiting for everyone to be rezzed is less important than it used to be, as players used to exist unable to whorl on an item if they were non shut plenty to the body when it was being looted. This has been corrected and everyone in the instance how can roll on the particular, merely it'southward still courteous to rez your party members earlier looting corpses).
• Abandoned loot on a corpse prevents it from being skinned, and it is considered polite for a party to loot all corpses if a skinner is in the party. The aforementioned applies less often to mobs that can exist 'skinned' via technology, mining, or herbalism.
• A flaw in the mandatory Need before Greed system used in Dungeon Finder groups is that classes may non roll on gear of bottom armor level even if it is an unambiguous upgrade, such as a holy paladin wanting mail with spellpower and intellect. The only way for that role player to be sure of getting that item is either for all other players to pass or for whoever wins that item to merchandise information technology later on. Since many players are in the habit of mindlessly clicking disenchant, this can exist a problem, since the item will be immediately destroyed. The only solution is to announce before the fight that you are looking for a particular particular and hope that everyone will pass on it if it drops.

Note that loot from containers — chests, food crates, and the like — equally opposed to corpses, also uses the party loot threshold (if i is in effect), although the container volition always be lootable past any party member. If the container holds a loftier-quality particular, that item will be rolled on (or non), the same equally if it were looted from a corpse.

Looting etiquette

1. Read the item descriptions, know what you are rolling on.

   Know if your character needs the particular, or can fifty-fifty use the item.

   Know what stats are important for your character class, and for your spec.

   Know what gear yous already have.

2. If you recollect you need everything, you need to consider others in your group. While y'all may need every single slice of gear that drops in an example, beingness greedy might reduce your chance to exist allowed to roll on that ane piece that y'all really desire.
3. Yous do not "need" any and all greenish items merely because disenchanting them will help y'all level enchanting. Nor do you "demand" all gems that drop to level your jewelcrafting. You get these things by ownership them, and other people demand money just equally much as you lot do.
4. Research the case you volition be going into for what loot has a chance to drop and decide ahead of time what you need.
5. If it is a Bind on Pickup item, you cannot give it to an alt. You cannot auction information technology. Information technology probably has a poor vendor value.
6. Call back beyond yourself. Stretch, you lot'll get better at it.
7. Loot your kills. Even if your numberless are full, open up the corpses that are yours to loot (other than on free for all). This distributes the gold to the party and makes the corpse available to your party members when y'all close it.
8. Communication goes a long mode toward solving annihilation. If you are in a particular instance to acquire a specific item for which other party members may raise questions, make sure you are honest well-nigh information technology upfront and empathize there is a chance you will be turned downwards and volition have to join some other group.
9. If you are the group leader (have the controls), do non tolerate a ninja. Try didactics beginning, just if they insist on keeping to their behavior, rapidly kick the member from your group. Realize that this may mean being undermanned and having to restart an instance, but a player with questionable intents will go your party killed anyway, and then better now than later.
10. If you lot are in such a group, politely make your concerns known. If nothing changes, inquire the leader privately if they intend to take action, if not and then politely state your intention to leave the group if that is your wish.
11. If yous need an item for off-spec, either inquire if y'all can roll demand on it, or look at the loot window and wait until everyone who could maybe need the item for primary spec picks an option other than need.

    Case: a Retribution paladin with a Protection off-spec sees a plate item with contrivance drop. If the tank is not a plate wearer (that is, not a warrior, paladin or death knight), or already has an equal or meliorate detail equipped in that slot, it is generally safe to roll need right away. Otherwise, expect and see what the tank rolls. If it's greed, disenchant or laissez passer, then it's also generally okay to need information technology. Yous may ask in political party conversation beginning to exist extra sure.

Secondary rolls

In the event of two or more than rolls being equal (for instance: if 2 players have a 'greed' gyre with the number 56 for a certain item), the system performs a hidden secondary whorl to determine which player will receive the item.

Loot systems

Groups and guilds that political party regularly become across the built-in loot distribution mechanisms that Blizzard provides. At that place are numerous loot systems that can be used to distribute boodle, with their own set of merchandise-offs.

Gallery

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Patch changes

"Reverted the change" was in reference to an undocumented change from a few days prior.

See also

• Category:Case loot

References

1. ^ Expected value#Discrete distribution taking only not-negative integer values

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