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  • Minyassa
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    I kind of have to. With people being all Rushy McRusherton through dungeons and delves, if I don't auto-loot and actually take the time to look at anything or, gods forbid, actually try and read stuff, I'm gonna have to sit and wait for all the bosses to respawn all the time.
  • Yarlenzey
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    There seems to be confusion between the autoloot settings in ESO and an addon that adds functionality to this.
    The addon is configurable, so that you can filter what you collect.
    For the person that complained about a level 12 sword in a craglorn chest; I'll counter that with finding a level 50 item in a Bal Foyen chest...
    For the person tha is kindly leaving TA etc behind; please take your rubbish with you

    The addons related to auto loot are 'exploits' and the single biggest frustration caused to players running behind its users. We have to deal with half empty chests and runetowers with nothing useful in them. At least the chests say Use. You dont know what the tower contain until you pick it up.

    Edited by Yarlenzey on August 7, 2017 6:05AM
    I got suspenders for saying "Testicular Mass" instead of "Balls". like, rilly.

  • Yarlenzey
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    Also. You can sell everything you collect. Someone will buy it.
    I got suspenders for saying "Testicular Mass" instead of "Balls". like, rilly.

  • Remag_Div
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    No
    ArchMikem wrote: »
    Even if i just hit X to "take all" most of the time, i still prefer to see what im taking before it goes in my inventory.

    This.
  • Khenarthi
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    Yes
    I got well over 8k Ta runes right now. But one day, when they become valuable, I will rule the markets. MUAHAHAHA!
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  • Cpt_Teemo
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    Yes
    LadyNalcarya wrote: »
    ChildOfLight wrote: »
    Reverb wrote: »
    max_only wrote: »
    Reverb wrote: »
    Why would anyone not use it?

    The people who leave Ta, Worms, and lvl 12 Prosperous bows in Craglorn chests are the ones not using it.

    Those people are a pox on the game, and probably on their real life community as well.

    No, those people just don't have craft bag and don't want to fill their Inventory with trash.

    Totally legit.

    Its not.
    Half-looted nodes take much longer to respawn (I'm not sure if they actually respawn - I often stumble upon 4-5 unlocked chests in a row while farming motifs), and leaving trash behind is just rude to other players.
    Imo it shouldnt be possible to leave trash in non-instanced nodes. Too many people are being selfish scumbags.

    Exactly, i'm surprised they didn't just make chests character based like how FF14 has nodes they have alot longer cd's but its character based so therefore people can't take your nodes or your chests.
  • Enodoc
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    No
    Danikat wrote: »
    I use the 'take all' option a lot, but I like to look in every single container and there's a lot of junk in this game that isn't worth taking, like weapons and armour that are worth nothing and don't give anything when salvaged, or the 900th apple. So I like to see what's in there before taking anything.
    Same here. It's also partly as a fall-back to the time before Loot History, as I wanted to know what I was actually picking up.
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  • efster
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    Yes
    Always. What I can't use, I can turn into gold.
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  • MjolnirVilkas
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    No
    No. While it's handy, I'm just used to press a key to take everything like in other games like Skyrim, Dragon Age and Witcher. I tried playing with auto loot but sadly all I did was wasting my ultimate all the time XD
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  • Feanor
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    Yes
    Yes, and Wykkyd's Auto-Delete on top of it.
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  • xSkullfox
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    No
    Too much useless stuff, and i want to know what i loot.
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  • idk
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    Yes
    Why would someone not, well, except those that like to troll harvesting nodes I guess.
  • Sygil05
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    Yes
    It took me a long time to get used to having this turned on, but I'm glad I did - it really cuts down on the tedium.
  • Rosveen
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    No
    1) I'm not a subscriber, so I'd run out of space in five minutes of questing.
    2) I like to know what goes into my inventory.
    3) I never farm containers, it's too boring.
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  • TeIvanni
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    No
    Holy Crap! I've been looting ten thousand urns daily.
    I never knew about this...
    This is the best thing ever!

    I will ALWAYS use AUTO-LOOT now! At least until I'm no longer an ESO+ member
    Edited by TeIvanni on August 7, 2017 3:32PM
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  • majulook
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    Yes
    Except for stealing/theft
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  • CMFan1966
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    No
    Fortunately, not everything that gets left behind is trash. Yes, I have more TA runes than I'll ever use, but yesterday I came across a chest that had level 30-something blue gauntlets in there that someone had left behind. I was on a low level character who couldn't use them yet, but we quite happily deconned those suckers!

    I actually don't mind finding just a worm sometimes either. I'm always happy to find bait.
  • Tandor
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    No
    Giles.floydub17_ESO wrote: »
    Why would someone not, well, except those that like to troll harvesting nodes I guess.

    It's just as likely (if not more so) that those who do that are using auto-loot plus an addon that filters out stuff they don't want and leaves it behind.
  • Cpt_Teemo
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    Yes
    What they should do is remove the unique from treasure maps so we have the full option to loot everything from the chest, and if you don't loot everything from the chest and leave it open to waste others time you should get a 30 min debuff that you can't pick another chest till that debuff wears off.
  • jmferris
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    Only when fishing. I will not leave things behind in a node or a resource, but when I am looting the carcasses of my enemies, I am simply not going to pick up trash. I really do not need to get my sixty-fifth green Chicken Breast recipe.
  • max_only
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    Yes
    Kyle1983b14_ESO wrote: »
    What they should do is remove the unique from treasure maps so we have the full option to loot everything from the chest, and if you don't loot everything from the chest and leave it open to waste others time you should get a 30 min debuff that you can't pick another chest till that debuff wears off.

    Yes to the "remove unique" maps and no to the debuff. I can just imagine my baby alts crying because they can't find anything to throw away to clear a chest.
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  • AlnilamE
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    No
    max_only wrote: »
    Reverb wrote: »
    Why would anyone not use it?

    The people who leave Ta, Worms, and lvl 12 Prosperous bows in Craglorn chests are the ones not using it.
    LadyDestiny wrote: »
    People that don't use auto loot, are the ones that leave worms in nodes and trash in chests....:(

    Actually, it's probably the opposite. It's likely the people who DO use autoloot and they don't even notice that they are leaving stuff behind because they are in such a hurry.

    I don't use auto-loot and I have never left anything behind, even before the craft bag or the merchant.
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  • max_only
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    Yes
    AlnilamE wrote: »
    max_only wrote: »
    Reverb wrote: »
    Why would anyone not use it?

    The people who leave Ta, Worms, and lvl 12 Prosperous bows in Craglorn chests are the ones not using it.
    LadyDestiny wrote: »
    People that don't use auto loot, are the ones that leave worms in nodes and trash in chests....:(

    Actually, it's probably the opposite. It's likely the people who DO use autoloot and they don't even notice that they are leaving stuff behind because they are in such a hurry.

    I don't use auto-loot and I have never left anything behind, even before the craft bag or the merchant.

    Auto loot isn't an addon. It's in the game settings. You don't get a chance to choose the items when you open a node or container --- unless you have an extra addon that does this filtering for you.
    Edited by max_only on August 8, 2017 2:22AM
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  • Cpt_Teemo
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    Yes
    Yeah my auto loot in game picks everything up unless I had a 2nd map on me cause of "Unique"
  • Yarlenzey
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    Yes
    ChildOfLight wrote: »
    And this night, playing ESO, I will leave behind me tons of trash items and think about you 2.
    And there is nothing you can do about it.

    Yes, you're right.

    Next time I see your name at a guild store, I'll keep all this in mind when choosing what I buy.
    Most likely 'nothing', from whatever guilds you belong to.

    So loot away!


    I got suspenders for saying "Testicular Mass" instead of "Balls". like, rilly.

  • TheRealPotoroo
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    MjolnirVilkas wrote: »
    No. While it's handy, I'm just used to press a key to take everything like in other games like Skyrim, Dragon Age and Witcher. I tried playing with auto loot but sadly all I did was wasting my ultimate all the time XD
    That makes no sense. You only have to used the overloaded "R" key when you have Autoloot turned off, which most people do for stolen items only. The solution to the problem of accidentally wasting your Ultimate because of what may be the most stupid default binding in the history of gaming is to remap the key bindings (I swapped bindings so I have "U" for Ultimate and "R" for Collections but there are other possibilities).
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  • Minyassa
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    Yes
    AlnilamE wrote: »
    max_only wrote: »
    Reverb wrote: »
    Why would anyone not use it?

    The people who leave Ta, Worms, and lvl 12 Prosperous bows in Craglorn chests are the ones not using it.
    LadyDestiny wrote: »
    People that don't use auto loot, are the ones that leave worms in nodes and trash in chests....:(

    Actually, it's probably the opposite. It's likely the people who DO use autoloot and they don't even notice that they are leaving stuff behind because they are in such a hurry.

    I don't use auto-loot and I have never left anything behind, even before the craft bag or the merchant.

    First, good on you for not leaving trash behind, that is decent of you and is as it should be.

    I just want to observe that it's very, very hard to not notice you're leaving something behind with auto-loot, because it makes the "bonk" noise and kicks up a window full of stuff you haven't taken yet that you have to actively exit out of to get rid of.

    It only does that if your inventory is full, at which point you are morally obligated to find something to throw away to make room for it even if you are a baby alt with no expanded loot bag because seriously if it's that close go find a merchant before you open any more dang chests, sheesh. I've had to throw away stuff I could've used because I chose to open a chest before just to empty useless crap out of it, it's annoying, but etiquette before convenience.
    Edited by Minyassa on August 8, 2017 8:14AM
  • tunepunk
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    I didn't even know about it since i saw this thread, but NOW I do! :tongue:
  • ecru
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    No
    No, I like to see what I'm looting even though I loot everything.
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  • AtraisMachina
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    No
    ArchMikem wrote: »
    Even if i just hit X to "take all" most of the time, i still prefer to see what im taking before it goes in my inventory.
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