Quote Originally Posted by JohnGabriel View Post
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?
This is incorrect.

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.