I swear, one time out of twenty, autoloot just fails to loot anything. What causes this, am I doing something wrong? I don’t think I’m moving or anything while looting though.
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All we can do is fill in a bug report in game and hope they can do something about it. It’s so annoying, I agree.
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Yes verily much so when I speeding through an area…
Screw it. I say leave it in the game. Anti-bot feature. Make it so that the looting animation goes on a loop so they stand there not looting for hours
It comes with lag imo. Sometimes exiting and relogging helps, sometimes not.
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oh so it’s not just me - ye since DF s4 i see the auto loot not looting way more often than ever.
Damn, so nothing I can really do to mitigate it? Bleh.
Wont do anything as an antibot feature. Looting is something which can be automated through the Addon API.
Theres even an addon for it if you dont want to write scripts yourself.
I dont think you understand what is happening here.
The loot frame opens but despite auto-loot set to on, it wont do it ,so the frame just sits open until you actually loot the items yourself manually.
While there may be some scripts or addons that auto-loot this for you, i am not sure that functionality is built in as this resembles an actual bot.
If a bot can fight and loot, then you are not putting the inputs in yourself, so therefor are running a bot which is against the rules.
I do i have the same bug.
It is built in. You can register for the loot window open and lootwindow close event. You can ask the API for the number of lootable items and you can ask the API to loot each item.
And heres the difference. Everything which the API allows you to do is permitted. The API functions are provided by blizz.
Thats why you can not automate combat with it. The spell casting functions are protected and client calls will be ignored. For looting you issue the command yourself by opening the loot window - thats why you cant write a macro for interacting with a gameobject, but you can bind a key for interacting with game objects or click it.
You can issue loot comands in a loop. The functions for that are free to use.
So instead of using the autoloot feature an addon simply spams loot until there are no more items to loot.
I assume the looting functions are enabled because you have to open the loot window yourself and there is an autoloot feature anyway, which does the same thing, issuing a loot comand every couple of milliseconds. You can even change this buffer time with an addon like advanced interface options or with a simple run command.
The same looting functions are used for raid addons in classic. No personal loot means loot distribution with a master looter and there are addons for guilds which work with dkp or other systems.
The addon API is not a magical hack. It is a set of functions which are specifically provided by blizz for the players to use.
It’s a feature in Leatrix Plus too.
I thought it’s because I’m accidentally holding shift. I’m not crazy then.
I use it, and i also sometimes have to loot it manualy .
Mostly with herbs/ores where i find some extra stuff, but its also happening with random drops too
This has happened to me randomly since the middle of Dragonflight, and still continues. And for me, and others it seems, it’s about 1 in 20, with auto-loot enabled and shift not pressed. I never reported it, but I should have and will follow Puny’s advice.
HOWEVER, [and this may be a total red herring] I installed Leatrix Plus a few days back, just to mute my Yak Grummles. As it was available, I also set the built-in autoloot delay to 0.3 to speed it up, and since doing that I haven’t seen the issue a single time. Could be coincidence, but makes me wonder if wow gets sidetracked during the default delay and forgets what it was doing.
Was writing this at the same time as Lommatik was posting. Maybe it’s not a fix then.
I submitted something like this (and a bug report) about a week or 2 ago. So I’m in the same boat of it getting fixed sometime 2025.
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