JustLootIt

Some NPCs won't become skinnable, herbable, or mineable until someone actually opens their loot window - even if all that's in it is junk. If nobody loots the corpse, the raid quietly loses out on the gather. JustLootIt watches for those NPCs, figures out who currently has the right to loot them, and tells your group so it doesn't get missed.

This is aimed at NPCs with that specific "must be looted before it can be gathered". Things like the Ancient Core Hounds in Molten Core, Underbog Colossus, and similar mobs where the corpse is otherwise easy to walk right past without realizing it needed to be opened first. Keep in mind this is a work in progress and over time more npcs will be added to it.

Everyone in the group or raid needs to run this addon for it to work reliably. Detection only happens on a client that (a) has the addon installed and (b) recognizes the NPC that died - so if the person who actually gets loot rights on a given corpse isn't running JustLootIt, nobody gets notified for that kill, even if everyone else in the raid has it. The more people running it, the more reliably every kill gets caught.

What it does

• Detects when a tracked NPC dies and checks who currently has loot rights on the corpse.
• Tells you directly in chat when it's you: "You can loot the X - loot it (even the junk) so it can be skinned!"
• Adds a line to the corpse's tooltip (Lootable by: Name) so anyone hovering it can see who needs to loot it, class-colored.
• If nobody running the addon has loot rights, falls back to listing everyone in the group who might (i.e. everyone not already confirmed to be running the addon).
• Optionally posts a one-line heads-up to the group - a raid warning in a raid, a normal party message in a party - from whoever's the party/raid leader, deduped so a corpse never gets announced more than once even if several people get loot rights on it at the same time (green drops, Free-For-All, etc.).
• Notices if you closed the loot window without taking everything, and reminds you to finish the job.
• Lets you check who in your group is running the addon, and what version.

Slash commands

/jli and /justlootit both work.

Settings

Open via /jli settings, or Escape → Options → AddOns → JustLootIt.

• Enable Debug Output - prints detailed detection/broadcast info to chat.
• Announce in Party/Raid Chat - on by default. Only the party/raid leader's client ever sends it, so this only does anything if you're the leader (or nobody announces, if the leader isn't running JustLootIt).

Notes

• Tracked NPCs are currently hardcoded in the addon (GATHERABLE_IDS). If you know of an NPC with this quirk that isn't covered, let me know and I'll add it.