Advanced Loot System
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The Advanced Looting Feature is a new system to handle looting items and money. It was announced at 2014 SOE Live that it would be released sometime in late fall or late 2014.
On December 18, 2014, Thom Terrazas, EQ Producer, announced it would be on the Test Server in late January / early February. It will go live once they are satisfied it is ready.
| “ | The new loot system is not tied to an expansion. It will be available for everyone. | ” |
Announced features
- Adaptive System - Always loot what you want and never show you items you don't want to see. Auto loot and put in inventory.
- Random Rolling
- Master Looter
- Solo, Group & Raids
- Assign master looter in raids
| “ | We've had the chance to test the improved looting system internally on our Beta server and we have been blown away with how convenient it makes collecting items, and how easy it is to use. It's a snap to get the drops you want while declining the drops you don't need, without having to search through piles of overlapping corpses, or corpses hidden inside a wall. (Hey, it happens sometimes!) The system also elegantly handles group and raid situations with automated rolling or master looter. This is a revolutionary way to manage your item drops and we can't wait to share the system with you. In the near future, this will go out to the Test server. When the time comes, we hope that you pop over to Test to try it out and give us your feedback. | ” |
Preliminary quick guide
From the test server:
- Advanced Looting is enabled by default. You can enable/disable it using /advloot, clicking on the Edit Filters button, and toggling the Use Advanced Looting check box
- /advloot will open the advanced loot window - it will open on its own when things you kill drop items. You can also bind the window to a key or use the EQ button
- The master looter's setting is what determines whether your group or raid uses advanced looting or classic looting
- The master looter's auto-split coin setting will affect coin distribution within your group or raid
- If you are out of range for a kill or out of the zone/dead. You must right click on the corpse to be able to loot items from it. This is signified by a red lock icon overlay. You can make use of the /hidecorpse listed and /hidecorpse listedunlocked to make it easier to do this.
Master Looter designation - You can see the name of the current master looter in your zone at the bottom of the advanced looting window.
For groups - in order
- Designated master looter group role - right click to assign master looter just as you would assign a new group leader
- Group leader
- First person in the zone in your group
For raids - in order
- Designated master looter raid role using the button in the raid window
- Raid leader
- Group 1 - Group N's designated group master looter
- Group 1 - Group N's leader
- The first person in the zone in your raid