How much gold would 5 man boxers lose % wise if they never looted but were mailed missed loot by the postman?
How much gold would 5 man boxers lose % wise if they never looted but were mailed missed loot by the postman?
I doubt any accurate information on this exists since it's completely dependent on how many mobs (and which ones) you happen to kill, so your estimation is as good as anyone else's. My gut feeling is that it's not all that substantial compared to for example the gold generated by questing while leveling. This is assuming we're talking about "normal" gameplay and not mass-farming mobs.
I however do not know how if any of the non-looted items that drop are missed by the postal service as well. If there are a any/some and you kill substantial amounts of mobs, then it could start adding up naturally. What you consider to be negligible is also highly subjective, so some might want all the vendorables and disenchantables, while others are fine losing them.
I'd however point out that looting is not all that troublesome nowadays with the addition of AOE looting and Loot-a-rangs that are available to any character with lvl 1 engineering.
For me, I’ve gone the Loot-a-rang method on every character. . I bind it to the same hot key on each character and hit it after every pack of mobs dies. Yes, you’re giving up a trade skill slot on each character, but I’m an alt-whore and have more than enough characters to cover each trade skill 10-fold.
thanks for replys.. side note I am coming back to 5boxing after a ten year break where I just single played WoW. I am coming back to 5 box classic and by my tests in retail I spend too much time IWT aoe looting. I know its because of the heirlooms I cant seem to play without but "speed running" 5 man dungeons for gold might be faster if I never stopped to loot. Using lootarangs with aoe looting is brilliant solution but classic gives up aoe looting. Thank you
Same here. Although my Hunters can just use Fetch, and have mining/herbing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kalros
I do believe that the raw gold from looting does not make it to the postmaster. He must skim that off the top for his finders fee.
I'd recommend looting what you can, but not sweating missing anything, as the super valuable stuff will make its way to you.
The postmaster doesn't send you gold, does it ? so you'd leave all that on the table
It'd be interesting to experiment though: go somewhere, kill 100 mobs and loot them all; kill 100 more without looting; what do you get in the mail ?
Not loot? Thats crazy talk. I doubt my OCD would even let me do that. lol
My hunters use Fetch and have mining/herbing, my only farming team. All my other toons have engineering 1 and use the loot a rang. I just cant go back to the IWT looting, just cant.
This might be a stupid question, but since when does the postmaster send you items? The only times that I received anything from the postmaster was when the loot was soulbound or if there was an epic/rare in a raid/dungeon boss. Oh, and also when there is some kind of special currency as apexis crystals or resources. Aside from that items do not seem to be sent to me.
That is exactly what OP was talking about. You receive all the BoE/BoP gear in your mailbox, so how much are you losing by leaving all the vendor trash and gold?Quote:
Originally Posted by Xeder
There's no way anyone can answer that question with any relative accuracy—it's just way too open ended. However, it's unclear which version of the game you're interested in when asking the question, because you're interested in Classic, but are currently practicing in Retail. So, if this pertains to Classic, then I doubt the Postmaster will be sending you anything other than mail from other characters (or, in the rare occurrence, a GM).Quote:
Originally Posted by ANG853
This is incorrect.Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnGabriel
you do not receive BOEs on the mail, greens, blues or purps, nothing. you don't even receive Gold. any BOE drop not looted will be lost.
the only cases where you will get BOEs is when the item/currency was granted by an event that couldn't complete. for example phasing out of a container after it was opened, of completing a quest as you zone out, etc.
you only get soulbound items, and when you do they are fully bound (no blue text)
not looting could only work with an absurd ammount of alts, farming a place like throne on taanan jungle. you get the BOP spheres, you can trade them for mats at the trader. but there's no way in hell anyone would buy enough mats to make it worthwhile.
no real point on calculating it, the answer is clear, it doesn't work. any place that can be farmed forever has no Bound drops, only BOEs that wont get mailed. the system of no BOEs on mail is there to prevent AFK farming, been so since the mail system for lost items was added, sometime around late wrath, i think the automated system was added with the LFG tool, the old system wasn't automated.
its the same reason pets didn't tap mobs, so if they killed a mob without you damaging it you got nothing. they changed that on legion for some obscure reason, and in theory pets can be used to afk farm now. but my guess that if they removed the pet tap limitation its because they implemented some other method of detection. and you WILL get banned for AFK actions, such as leaving a keyboard macro running for hours.