Quote Originally Posted by Squiggoth
Quote Originally Posted by marvein
I feel your pain of this but what I hjave come to as a solution is I leave master loot on my main. when some good (read boss loot)drops I hit 'c' to open every char window and look at said gear slot to see who needs it the most. then give it to them and equip it, works well and really doesnt take much time at all. the two helpful people in the thread were indeed helpful and didnt miss the point, they were showing why there is no such need for this addon outside of the multiboxing community, or for that matter in it. Outside of multiboxing it would be open to abuse and not needed given current methods of handling loot. And inside multiboxing its not needed because we can see all our gear at once if need be. After all you have to manualy equip a new piece of gear once an alt gets it anyways.
You really feel there is no need for it in our community? I'm shocked. Most people I spoke with said they never distributed sub-green loot because of the hassle. If one pulls aggro, pretty much they're dead if you don't have a tank with aggro-pulling talents such as taunt, consecrate, etc.

I don't have 5 monitors, nor do I have a monitor I can see when I use maximizer, so I have 2 computers, 1 client on one and 4 on the other, overlapped so I can actually read stuff. It would mean I would have to go into each screen, check the gear, try to REMEMBER all 5 options (okay, clone1 had the 32 armor leather belt, clone 2 had the 16 armor leather belt, clone3 had...wait...clone 3 had the 32 armor leather belt, and.....

See what I mean? I just want an easy way to keep tabs on what each of my clones is wearing. You're telling me now that that isn't helpful to multiboxers? Pre-70 and leveling up I'd think it'd be indispensible.
Well let me elaborate a bit on what I mean by "no need" and such. First off, even though the attitude was ass-hole like on those posts some people had a point. And that point was that if there was such a demand then a multiboxer should write the addon. There is no real need for this outside multiboxing and inside multiboxing the demand is even smaller. I find my method plenty fast for dividing loot and no I do not pass out green items. I don't ignore green items because it would be a pain, I do it because I feel why bother with a green item when I can run an instance for a blue and just DE the green? So right now with a few exceptions due to level (bracers or gloves mainly) almost all of my gear are blue bop drops. It takes me less than 20 seconds to determine who should get a blue and to equip it when it drops because I can see all my characters at once. Albeit at a small resolution but plenty big enough to see what gear they have in a slot and what their stats are like hp/mp spell crit, spell dmg, etc.

So in my eyes the only need for this kind of an addon would be those who have their clients configured in such a way that they cannot see all of them at a quick glance without alt tabbing or moving windows around, and having plowing through this site regularly I do not see very many people at all that fit under this category and so I stated the demand for this would be pretty much zero. Zero as in not enough demand for someone to write an addon for it. This addon falls under the category "if you want something done right, do it yourself" because there really is so little demand for it that the only way it will get written is if one of the people that want it does it. Which likely would have happened by now if the people wanting it were capable of making addons (I know I cant, but then I dont need it). Now if I knew how to write addons would I do it? Again probably not because that is a lot of work for a very, very small group of people and even then only of a small portion of that group actually 'need' it.