What is Magic Looter?
Magic Looter is an addon to make master looting easier to manage. Specifically it will automatically loot Bind on Equip or non-binding items to people of your choosing. There are two recipient lists - bank items and disenchanting. Every time you open the loot windows, Magic Looter will scan the items and using the predefined lists will send the item to the appropriate recipient. If none of the players on the predefined list are available as loot recipients, the item will be looted to yourself.
Note that this is only useful for master looting. It doesn't do anything if there is another loot method use. Also note that it is primarily designed to work with uncommon loot threshold, it can be used with any threshold. However the higher the threshold, the lower the value of the addon.
Is that it?
No, there's also an optional addon that replaces the Master Loot menu. It adds class sorted looting (instead of group based), random roll tracking and quick looting to self, disenchanter or banker. There's also an option to start a new DKP bid (that hooks into MagicDKP Bidder). Looting done via the addon will also be recorded in MagicDKP if present.
Why do I need this?
I wrote this because my guild collect all greens for disenchanting, later used to provide free enchants to raiders, and I got tired of manually distribute master loot items.
It is likely we'll see the return of both epic gems, BoE patterns and BoE crafting materials in future WotLK raids which greatly will increase the value of the addon.
Development Status
Early production. Auto-loot and master loot functionality works great.
Recent Changes
New in r32:
- Updated toc and repackaged.
New in r30:
- LootMenu: Don't register looted items with MagicDKP or announce it when not in a group.
New in r29:
- LootMenu: Fixed errors that could occur if you logged in while in a raid or party.
New in r27:
- LootMenu: Fixed incorrect placement of clear() method and added an event listener for OPEN_MASTER_LOOT_LIST.
- Fixed library load order to prevent error from LibDBIcon.
New in r25:
- Core: Fixed 'item bind on' checking for color blind mode.
- Bumped TOC to 3.1.
- Fixed config issue.
New in r21:
- LootMenu: Don't report looted items unless they are actually looted (or when the loot window is closed).
New in r20:
- Made an accidental global function local.
New in r19:
- Throttle raid update event with a 10s timer.
- Hide offline raid members from the loot dropdown.
- Correctly remove people / classes from the dropdown list when they leave the raid/party.
New in r17:
- Added optional loot confirmation dialog to LootMenu.
- Added an optional DKP Roll menu (it can be used together with MagicDKP Bidder or as a simple raid chat notification of a bid).
- Made the auto looting in the base MagicLooter addon optional.
- Fixed raid scanning issue.
- Removed the DKPBidder addon. Make sure to delete MagicLooter_DKPBidder! It is not functional nor supported.
New in r10:
- Added master loot menu replacement (note - disable XLootMaster before using this addon)
- Added addon to handle DKP bidding (currently requires the master loot menu addon).
- Added toggle to disable auto looting in MagicLooter.
- Removed invalid use of MagicComm.
AddOn developnent updates:
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r33 | dhedbor | 2009-12-11 20:52:18 +0000 (Fri, 11 Dec 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/MagicLooter.toc
M /trunk/Modules/LootMenu/MagicLooter_LootMenu.toc
Updated toc to 3.3.
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r32 | dhedbor | 2009-10-29 06:01:46 +0000 (Thu, 29 Oct 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Modules/LootMenu/MagicLooter_LootMenu.toc
[*]LootMenu: Fixed typo.
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Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...
