When to start looting?

[Hypermoo]

My shamans are 67, and soon to be 70. I've already started leveling a new team. I can spend an hour or two on my shamans, and make more gold than what my new team could make leveling 1-50. I want to level as quickly as possible, and looting everything is just too much hassle. That said, When do you think I should start looting what I kill?

[Unholy[S]haman]

When you start fighting lvl67 + mobs, then they start dropping decent blues and epics.

[Bluepants]

This is not so much a "when" but more af a "how"....
What has really worked for me is to keep the loot on group loot when i dont need any quest drops.
Then i just loot what glimmers :D (SHINY!)
That way i get all the green stuff, and not to forget world drop epix.
The green stuff = disenchant for big $$.
Last night i boosted some friends in SM, i get all greens... 4runs of cath gave 160g worth of mats on AH.
Not the best way to make gold, but if youre still going there, why not pick up the extra cash ;)

Edit : ALWAYS loot mobs that can drop rare BoE blues... An example is the Champions in cath, they drop the rarest piece of the scarlet set.

[Hypermoo]

I thought about doing group loot, but all the roll windows for every piece get really annoying. Is there a way to auto-pass / greed?

[Katharsis]

TwoboxToolkit (http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7199-TwoBoxToolkit.html) offers an auto pass on loot feature.

[Unholy[S]haman]

What about master looter?

[Kaynin]

Since 2.4 you can right click the players unitframe and check "pass on loot".

You can still loot quest items and badges and such with your alts, but they will auto pass on all other loot, also gold and white loto will all be lootable by your main.

I love this function.

[Bluepants]

Since 2.4 you can right click the players unitframe and check "pass on loot".

You can still loot quest items and badges and such with your alts, but they will auto pass on all other loot, also gold and white loto will all be lootable by your main.

I love this function.

Sure its nice, especially on pick up quests, but in instances it doesnt sort out the greens for you, you would still have to loot all corpses to get it.
And if all alts are on "pass loot" then youre back at square 1 with free for all :)

[Boylston]

Setting master looter is nice if all you want to do is pick up greens/blues. You can hover over the piles of sparkly bodies and be alerted to when there's a green/blue present.

[Boylston]

The answer to your question in terms of gold income from your new team vs. gold income from your established 70s is probably around 50-60. I personally started looting everything in earnest only once my guys hit Outlands at L58. I powerleveled them in SM:Cath from 20-40, and DID have one of my team disenchant everything for a pretty nice profit on the AH.

[Drizzit]

I wish i can not loot all the bodies when i run instances. The only reason i loot the bodies is for the cloth (tailoring and first aid) for blue/greens (de for enchanting), and for the money. I wish there was a way not to pick up grays and whites (well maybe some whites like cloth and suck, but not food, what is my 70 rogue going to do with lvl 15/25 food?). What i do is dropped of the toons in a safe place to get xp, kill all the guys and loot them. Only the way back to get the toons i drop all the stuff that i don't want. Sometimes i wish there was no confirmation asking if i want to drop an item.

[Sarduci]

I loot everything..... Need to get the epic flying on my 70's still.......

I set looting to free for all and loot with my main. When my main gets full, I pass to my one of my shammies until empty. Wash, rinse, repeat. I only go back to town to get new skills every two levels.

[fpanko]

I loot everything.
- Give all your toons 16 slot bags
- Put it on free-for-all
- Use auto-loot to speed up looting.
- Loot with your main
- Whenever all your mains bags fill, trade full stacks and greens to one of the alts.
It helps to have one alt with enchanting to DE all the greens you get along the way.

In my server, prices are very over inflated right now. I've managed to rack up 200g+ on my lvl29 mages just selling crap in the AH. Especially the new BOE blues in SFK & WC.

Sure, you can still make more on a 70 doing dailies, but who can't use an extra 200g.

[dirjax]

pyup, looting everything
all those grey things... they make my repair bill :)

personally these options:
- master looter
- loot treshold : rare
- non main : pass on loot

this way, the main gets all the loot, and still can divide interesting stuff to alt's.
full bag = trade alt :)

[Sanctume]

I stop looting when power leveling in old world instances: RFC, SFK, and SM. And when I have a bank alt full of sub 50 enchant mats.

I start looting in BRD, LBRS, Scholo/Strath just for the Enchant Mats. These are needed to overcome the 275-300 Enchant skill ups.

Definitely loot all of Outlands. Also, it's better to have your alts/noobs to train even 1 skill point in their chosen professions. This way, when rare recipe drop, they can loot it even if they aren't maxed in the trade skill yet.

[Anozireth]

I can't imagine not looting everything?

I make hundreds of gold just from vendoring grey crap.....QFT. How incredibly foolish not to be looting EVERYTHING beyond about level 20....

[Hypermoo]

To clarify how I will be leveling, I'm running around with warlocks and shadow priests, and dotting everything to death. The goal is to be killing non-stop. I won't be spending much (if any) time in instances. Each time I pause to loot a corpse, I'm delaying leveling. The sooner they hit 70, the sooner I can start making real gold. Consider how much /played time it would take to loot every corpse from 1-50, and even if you do great at the AH, your can just jump on the 70s, do a few dailies, and you've made more gold than you possibly could while leveling.

I still don't know what I'll end up looting.

[Tonuss]

I can't imagine not looting everything? Me either, though I tend to level slowly with my group and am not focused on leveling speed, which is what the OP was interested in.

I would say that it depends on whether or not you have an enchanter in your group. If you do, start looting for greens when you are in SM, if Small Brilliant Shards sell well on your server. I always looted everything and would just DE most of it and bank it. Later on I finally decided to start selling the stuff on the AH and made close to 2,000 gold in a week (I had a LOT of enchanting materials :P ). Also, from level... 40ish?... on up, I always came out ahead on money after I repaired and sold my grays/vendor trash. Considering that I've paid for four level 40 mounts and will be paying for four level 60 mounts and four level 70 mounts, every copper counts.

But if it's a case of leveling speed > everything-else-no-matter-what-etc, then I wouldn't loot anything until I started Outlands instances.

[Boylston]

Looting anything other than DEable stuff in SM:Cath while powerleveling is foolish, in my opinion.

The cash from all the grey/cloth crap is just not worth it. Looting nearly doubles the amount of time a run takes! Spend 30min on your main and get 8-12 hours worth of SM:Cath cash....

[Sanctume]

Looting anything other than DEable stuff in SM:Cath while powerleveling is foolish, in my opinion.

The cash from all the grey/cloth crap is just not worth it. Looting nearly doubles the amount of time a run takes! Spend 30min on your main and get 8-12 hours worth of SM:Cath cash....Yup, gold is easier at 70.

30 minutes doing SSO quest in the Isle is a lot of gold compared to spending 5 minutes looting every clearing done in SM:Cath during the boosting days.

Even in BRD or LBRS, I only loot with my Shamans when the Paladin is sitting and drinking for 20 seconds + auto runs to the next pull. Move with the keyboard, loot with the mouse. It works out.

But in Outlands, I can't pass up on the possibilities of stuff I will use at 70.

[badashh]

If you are boosting I wouldn't recommend looting anything until SM. It just is a waste of your 70's time. Especially since you can get 100+ gold in like 30 mins doing dailies. if you are leveling a full group together I would loot everything, but for boosting it is too much of a drag.

[Lyonheart]

I can't NOT loot! I loot every damn thing! trash and all! I spend an hour a day,or more, selling/mailing/AHing/banking lol

[Greythan]

I've recently starting boosting my team with my 70 'lock in SM. (Team's at 24 atm.)

I've been looting pretty religously. That said, I ran them through the Cathedral a few times last night (yeah, I know a bit early) and only looted the bosses for the blues. Wow, loved the speed. I'm done looting anything other than bosses for now.

I think it depends on your preference. I'm more interested in leveling than gold, etc. If you want to "enjoy the ride" then you'll probably end up looting.

For me, I'll probably selectively loot until Outlands. We all remember how quickly your gear turns over once you hit Outlands.

[kllrwlf]

FFA and loot everything with my main. When the bags are full, I distribute the loot to the other alts for their professions, then continue looting with my main.

[pipakin]

pyup, looting everything
all those grey things... they make my repair bill :)

personally these options:
- master looter
- loot treshold : rare
- non main : pass on loot

this way, the main gets all the loot, and still can divide interesting stuff to alt's.
full bag = trade alt :)

I ignore the grays, since I have 70's to fund me. I do something like what you're doing though.

- master looter
- loot threshold: rare
- MAIN: pass on loot.

the only loot the main sees are blues, and he can assign them to who he wants.

[Hypermoo]

I ignore the grays, since I have 70's to fund me. I do something like what you're doing though.

- master looter
- loot threshold: rare
- MAIN: pass on loot.

the only loot the main sees are blues, and he can assign them to who he wants.


That is an excellent idea. I think that is what I will do. Thanks.

[Tdog]

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[Bluepants]

You my friend are a GENIUS!
Ive tested ALOT with all of the different loot options.. And it never crossed my mind to pass loot on my MAIN...
Im boosting all weekend for a friend... ML will be on with threshold rare ;) I only care for green + since my 4 shammies are enchers.

[SilentPanda]

There is an addon (I haven't tried it yet but will tonight) called LootFilter that might be assistive in looting.

Curse link -> http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/1307/
Author's site (more up to date version I think) -> http://www.lootfilter.com/

It loots everything (still have to right click) then matches against keep/delete rules. So you won't even have sparklies anymore. It'll just destroy things you have determined you don't want. Of course, be careful with any mod that auto-deletes stuff from your bag.

[Anjuna]

How can one ignore the shineys? 8|

[Ken]

Looting anything other than DEable stuff in SM:Cath while powerleveling is foolish, in my opinion.

The cash from all the grey/cloth crap is just not worth it. Looting nearly doubles the amount of time a run takes! Spend 30min on your main and get 8-12 hours worth of SM:Cath cash....

What about the tons of cloth that drop there? If you have a tailorer, you can later make some cloth shoulders and disenchant them :) That's what I did yesterday with about 600 silk cloth :P

[Drizzit]

What about the tons of cloth that drop there? If you have a tailorer, you can later make some cloth shoulders and disenchant them :) That's what I did yesterday with about 600 silk cloth :PIf it wasn't because of tailoring and enchanting i would just pass on all the drops there. Need the silk to lvl tailoring and need tailoring to de the stuff to lvl enchanting. All three of my guys have tailoring and enchanting. Tailoring isn't bad it is just enchanting... those stupid rods cost so much money to get. Now i am wondering is the extra +24 spell damage worth having the guys enchanting?

I also have 4 sham team waiting for my pally to get to 70 to power lvl them that are also enchanting. I did the math yesterday and if the rods sell for normal price i will have to coach up 1.5k for 7 rods. That is not counting the pearls and stuff to make the enchanted rod.

On a good note on all the runs and tailoring i don't have to buy any mats. Infact i am selling a lot of mats. Another thing is worth picking up is the scrolls that drop. They sell nice on the AH.

[Tdog]

What about the tons of cloth that drop there? If you have a tailorer, you can later make some cloth shoulders and disenchant them :) That's what I did yesterday with about 600 silk cloth :PIf it wasn't because of tailoring and enchanting i would just pass on all the drops there. Need the silk to lvl tailoring and need tailoring to de the stuff to lvl enchanting. All three of my guys have tailoring and enchanting. Tailoring isn't bad it is just enchanting... those stupid rods cost so much money to get. Now i am wondering is the extra +24 spell damage worth having the guys enchanting?

I also have 4 sham team waiting for my pally to get to 70 to power lvl them that are also enchanting. I did the math yesterday and if the rods sell for normal price i will have to coach up 1.5k for 7 rods. That is not counting the pearls and stuff to make the enchanted rod.

On a good note on all the runs and tailoring i don't have to buy any mats. Infact i am selling a lot of mats. Another thing is worth picking up is the scrolls that drop. They sell nice on the AH.Imo, hell no the ring enchants are not worth getting enchanting on all your toons. I would however recommend having enchanting on at least 2 of your toons, at least one of them being your booster toon.

[Drizzit]

Imo, hell no the ring enchants are not worth getting enchanting on all your toons. I would however recommend having enchanting on at least 2 of your toons, at least one of them being your booster toon.
Great I wish i asked this before i started the grind. Oh well to late now :( got enchanting to 211 on three of them so i might just finish. Maybe during the expansion they will have better ring enchant or daily de. If that happens i can make some money (like how void crystals where selling for 15-20 on my sever and when you de them [1 per day] you get 2 crystals that sell from 25-30, but the last patch didn't make it a daily).

The rogue that is powerleveling them has de, but once i get my pally to 70 he will be the powerleveler. He is herb and ach. Boy did i screw this up. lol

Edit: Maybe i should hold off on selling the mats on the AH. Who knows what inscription will need to make. If it takes enchanting mats, there will be a huge increase in prices on all mats because people will want to power lvl it.

[Tdog]

There is an addon (I haven't tried it yet but will tonight) called LootFilter that might be assistive in looting.

Curse link -> http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/1307/
Author's site (more up to date version I think) -> http://www.lootfilter.com/

It loots everything (still have to right click) then matches against keep/delete rules. So you won't even have sparklies anymore. It'll just destroy things you have determined you don't want. Of course, be careful with any mod that auto-deletes stuff from your bag.Okay so I just used this add-on and I must say it is actually quite nice.

-However-

I highly, highly, HIGHLY!!! recommend first trying this out on some low level toons or a toon with gear you don't care about and learning how to configure it prior to using it on your main as if you configure it wrong you can easily delete half your inventory and be completely screwed! Also enchanter/crafters make sure you configure it so it doesn't delete your DE mats/(white quality) trade goods. I've only used this on 3 RFC runs to test it out but, if you configure this properly it looks like its a freaking godsend especially to boosters!