BOP profession patterns, can everyone see them?

[Ryan]

Let's say, hypothetically (and by that I mean actually) I'm grinding those Spell Thiefs in Blade's Edge for the Spell Damage enchant. It's a BOP pattern and only enchanters can see it. My second character is an enchanter, but my main is not. If I leave it on FFA loot will my main be able to see it it? Or will I have to check on Two's screen to see if there is loot? Or should I switch to a different loot setting altogether?

[Ryan]

Apparently the answer is yes. I was starting to get nervous, but the enchant clearly showed up no character One's screen even though it wasn't lootable. So I just switched over and looted. And now I can enchant major spellpower to weapon. Woot.

[thinus]

Blizzard changed that recently. Thanks for confirming that it actually works. Perhaps now I will less frequently sit bolt upright in bed in the middle of the night with a cold sweat saying "OH FUCK!"

[Ryan]

Blizzard changed that recently. Thanks for confirming that it actually works. Perhaps now I will less frequently sit bolt upright in bed in the middle of the night with a cold sweat saying "OH FUCK!"

Yeah, I remember them changing it. But I've also played long enough to know that what Blizz puts in their patch notes is not always how things work in practice. I was having bad luck with the drop, so I was starting to be afraid that I just couldn't see it cause it was on FFA or some random thing. And, either way, I figured I might as well post here to confirm that it works.

[Stabface]

Well this is not always be true, I run on FFA and just last week my main could not see the boots +sta enchant from Mana Tombs, nor could anyone other than my enchanter. I only knew that it dropped because my comp locked up and I wiped just past the 2nd boss, and noticed on the run-back that the one corpse hadn't disappeared.

[thinus]

Well this is not always be true, I run on FFA and just last week my main could not see the boots +sta enchant from Mana Tombs, nor could anyone other than my enchanter. I only knew that it dropped because my comp locked up and I wiped just past the 2nd boss, and noticed on the run-back that the one corpse hadn't disappeared.

Feck.

[Mudd]

When I was questing in BEM on the mobs that drop the pattern my main saw the drop on a corpse and was not the enchanter. It was set to FFA loot. I can see someone missing a bop profession drop if they are quickly autolooting. It shows up red when you loot and once the window closes you cant bring up the loot window again unless you have something lootable on it. Only the enchanter will be able to see it.

[Stabface]

Maybe, I'm pretty sure I didn't just miss it on my main - it was my 3rd run through, and I was very carefully checking each Ethereal Priest corpse for the enchant. Shouldn't the loot window with this pattern present the BoP warning though? Other items do... Corruptor Scourgestones if you don't have your trinket equipped for example. I guarantee 100% that if Enchant Boots - Fortitude gives a a BoP warning for people who can't loot it, there is no way I just overlooked it on my main.
I suppose it's possible I just overlooked it somehow, though, if it doesn't give the BOP warning. I'll keep a closer look this weekend in SV for the bracer enchant off the Oracles.

[Mudd]

Well a similar example is when you are in a master loot raid. You can autoloot the corpse to get your badges and junk loot and all the master loot will be red since you are ineligible to loot it. You never get a BOP dialog in that scenario, and once you close the loot window you can't open it again only the master looter will have sparklies.

[junx]

I just want to add to this thread that I killed over 1500 of those priests in Mana Tombs using my Druids to stealth in and kill them and reset(feral/resto took forever to kill them) and the enchanting pattern never dropped. I have screenshots of the fubar addon that tracks the mobs you are farming around somewhere.

I go in on my Pally/Shaman team and the first priest pack I kill drops the pattern! :cursing: