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The new Alliance and Horde Intro Experience of Shadowlands is suppose to introduce completely new players to the game and we learned that Area looting is a feature learned at level 8.

Back in May, we posted about the option to disable AoE Loot in the game, now why would you want that? It turns out this feature is intended for new players that go through Exile's Reach and unlock Area looting at level 8.

For an odd reason, AoE looting was available on Alpha even before level 8 as depicted in the image below and we did not have to loot all corpses separately.

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Upon reaching level 8, you unlock Area Looting which allows you to loot all nearby corpses.

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Thanks to u/Grayvves for the tip.

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Curious choice indeed. I mean QoL stuff such as area looting might seem confusing at first but I mean it is still QoL, would not gate it.

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Seriously? so, for 8 levels, i am going to be tediously looting every single corpse?? Very Bad idea in my opinion.

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4 hours ago, Lithari said:

Seriously? so, for 8 levels, i am going to be tediously looting every single corpse?? Very Bad idea in my opinion.

As far as I can interpret the idea, the goal is that this unlock will be account-wide, so really aimed at only new players, not all new characters. I doubt your 47th alt on the same account will have to go through this process, since even the new zone can be skipped.

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I think this shows brand new players how loot goes from a target to your inventory. I introduced someone I live with to the game for the first time shortly after BfA launched. I can tell you that something like this would have been really helpful as we experienced players forget how overwhelming WoW can be. I almost wished they had waited for Shadowlands, this whole intro experience could have eased a lot of their frustrations.

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I can think of one time when turning off area loot might be good - farming skins. Kill and loot a bunch of skinnable mobs, and it's not uncommon to have a *filtered* swoop in and start skinning while you're trying to do the same. Having the option to toggle off area looting would be exceptionally helpful for skinners on busy servers.

 

Edit: Wow, that's a sensitive profanity filter. I could say that word to my mom without fear.

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