Motes of Harmony Drop Rate

[Benjii]

Will my entire 5-men team be able to loot Motes of Harmony when they drop like quest items? Or is it first come first serve. They really need to make this BoA.

[beeq]

Will my entire 5-men team be able to loot Motes of Harmony when they drop like quest items? Or is it first come first serve. They really need to make this BoA.

Let’s get right to it. Spirit of Harmony is a Bind on Pickup (or “BoP” to veterans) crafting material that can be found on every lootable creature in every zone in Pandaria -- from dungeons to the outdoor world. Initially, we want crafters to be out in the world adventuring instead of camping out in front of an auctioneer, hoping to score some cheap mats.

We understand that this may be of concern to those who play a variety of profession alts, and may consider other options for the future, including the possibility of allowing Spirits of Harmony to be Bind to Account in a future patch.

http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/232629-professions-living-in-perfect-harmony/

[beeq]

http://www.wowhead.com/npc=66678
http://www.wowhead.com/npc=66685

in case if someone have missed these NPCs.

I can't believe you can buy 3x Golden Lotus with just one Spirit of Harmony. Those herbs sell 300g each on my server, so one Mote of Harmony is worth 90g at the moment.
Just need a decent farm place for the motes. So far the best place I've found is in Krasarang Wilds ( http://www.wowhead.com/npc=57649 )

[dubiox]

how can I loot in a way that I have to decide who gets the mote? this is so damn annoying...

[jstanthr]

easiest way i've seen is to set it on group loot, and set slaves to pass, just make sure your on the one you want to get them when the mob dies. or you could jst set it to ML and let only one toon do the looting (quest items are still lootable no matter the loot method)

[moosejaw]

To clarify on master looting. You need to set the threshold lower than green's because I am set on green's and motes are not assignable at that level. Setting the loot threshold lower than green's is a pain in the a$$. I just swap leads while questing to spread out the mote pickup.

[Khatovar]

I just had to resort to turning off auto loot on my master, but I put in a suggestion ticket to bump them to green or make them trade-able to group members for a limited time like boss drops in dungeons are. One can dream...

[Khatovar]

how can I loot in a way that I have to decide who gets the mote? this is so damn annoying...

Ok, I had to crawl back in time a bit for this, but we have a winner.

Karni's Crap Filter

Download it and open KarniCrap.lua in Notepad or another text editor.

Per this post

Edit KarniCrap.lua and change line 450 from:

if LootSlotIsCoin(i) then
to:

if GetLootSlotType(i) == LOOT_SLOT_MONEY then

I also went ahead and edited KarniCrap.toc, changing line 1 to ## Interface: 50001 just to keep it out of the "out of date" list.

I enabled it only on my master since I always check loot with my master first, but it's up to you.

First step is to go into the Blizzard options under Interface > Control and Disable Auto Loot.

In the KarniCrap options {/crap}, I disabled Filter poor & common items.
Disable Auto-destroy.
Tradeskills enabled Loot all cooking/fishing.

Nothing else changed under the Loot Options.

Under Blacklist/Whitelist add Mote of Harmony to the Never Loot List. Now you're master will loot everything, but leave Motes of Harmony on the corpses so you can decide who to loot it with. You can still loot them on your master, but it requires actually clicking on them in the loot window.

[moosejaw]

Oooohh!! I like that. I still like to change leads while I'm doing quests so I'll enable it on all of them.

Thanks for the leg work (once again) Khat.

[dubiox]

cool! thanks