Overview
Personal Loot Helper (PLH) simplifies trading of personal loot by notifying you when a drop is not an upgrade for the looter, but is an upgrade for you or others in your group!
What’s New
When a PLH user receives loot they can trade, PLH will give them the option to KEEP or OFFER TO GROUP. If they choose KEEP, PLH will not notify anyone else that the item is tradeable. If they choose OFFER TO GROUP, PLH will notify other PLH users who can equip the item that it is available.
Notified players can PASS or request the item for MAIN SPEC, OFF SPEC, or XMOG. PLH does an internal /roll for each requestor and shows the looter each requestors’ reason for rolling, ilvl difference, and roll. The looter can then choose to KEEP the item for themselves after all or TRADE it to one of the requestors. Of course, the looter is not bound by the reasons, ilvl differences, or rolls when making their decision – that information is there to help them, but the ultimate decision is up to the looter! The trade itself still has to happen manually via the Trade window, but everything else – the notification, the requests, the rolls, the decision to keep or trade the item, and the decision of who to trade the item to – happens within PLH!
While the looter can see all requestors and their reasons & rolls, the rest of the group cannot! After the looter has decided whether to KEEP or TRADE the item, the "winning" requestor will be told to open trade, but the declined requestors will only be shown that the item is no longer available – they will not know whether the looter kept the item or gave it to someone else. This should minimize social pressure from people badgering looters or badgering people to whom loot is gifted.
Hopefully you can see how this will be a big time saver for groups – if everyone has PLH installed, the entire group can manage loot sharing without bothering with whispers, /rolls, comparing ilvls, clarifying who needs for main spec vs. off spec, etc.!!
I recognize that not everyone your group with will have PLH installed, so I also added the often-requested feature to whisper looters. If the looter does not have PLH installed, you will see a WHISPER button instead of MS/OS/XMOG buttons. PLH will only allow you to whisper the looter once per item (of course you could manually whisper them multiple times, but don’t do that!).
I’ve added several new configuration options as well (such as automatically skipping confirmations, broadening what is shown based on ilvl, or customizing the whisper message). You can see the options by doing “/plh”.
About the Author
Madone-Zul'Jin has been playing WoW since 2007. He started on Staghelm, but moved to Zul'Jin in 2008 along with the rest of the Horizon guild. Personal Loot Helper is the first addon that Madone has created!
Special Note
Thank you to all of the players who trade loot to others who can use it! Your generosity is part of what makes the WoW community great. You rock!!!
This addon just told me that I could trade something with myself, a bug after 8.2?
"[02:12:34] <PLH> You can trade [Razdunk's Big Red Button], which is an ilvl upgrade for Deathwarrant (295)"
Deathwarrant is me.
I don't mean any offense but is there a way to block this addon?
heya great addon,one thing tho,when clicking "offer to group" can it be optional to send msg to /i or /r or /p?would be great thnx
edit :also would it be poossibe to add load-on-demand?such as if in party and instance bla bla
edit 2 : what procedure checks for upgrades on players items?wanta add check for in party and in instance
When we beg can we link what we are trying to replace?
no changelog? i would like to know what exactly i am updating
It falsely says I can trade a 385 offhand when I have a 375 staff (offhand is empty)
Hey! Fantastic add-on. The only thing keeping my guild leader from using it is that he would like a timer to countdown that people have to roll before it goes off. Would be wonderful. Thanks!
Make the Addon transparant so that every one can see the roll numbers.
When we are doing raids with alts people are reading up who got witch numbers so no one is feeling cheated, but making it so the addon is showing the numbers would make it easier and faster.
Another thing is, that when 2 persons have the same roll the addon are not doing a new roll to make sure there is not 2 idetical numbers and it would be nicer with there would be not identical rolls.
People from old dungeons are getting stuck in the PLH pass/whisper window. It doesn't clear out the people from old dungeons like it should...... I accidentally whispered someone about a piece of gear from 2 dungeons ago. Embarrassing.
Also, it told me that I could trade myself an upgrade.
My toon's name is Hellarity. Screenshot in spoiler:
Request: Is it possible to, especially when doing rings/trinkets, deal with unique-equipped items? We had a few fun minutes after our mother kill as the people for whom it showed the ring would be the biggest upgrade, all had pretty good mother rings already and it was their other one that was shit.
Please add cyrillic support
Love this addon, thanks so much for making it :-)
Can you change it in any way to show everyone (or even just the raid leader) what the rolls are? Unless I'm missing something there is no way to know that the person that is giving away the loot is giving it to the real winner?
We seamed to have an issue last night where it didn't seem to sync correctly, we wondered if older versions were compatible with the latest version (talking 1 or 2 updates behind, not one from last year)?
This addon was so...soooooo much better before the update. We hate the popup screen and the way it get the information out now.
It was literally prefect before when it just popped up in chat. Please change it back man!
In reply to Mattishorrible:
In reply to Syward:
I've explained a few times that the change was made because people were using the group notification to harass others for their loot, even leading to some people being kicked from groups when not offering to trade loot that PLH said was tradeable.
I'm open to adding group notification back if anyone has ideas on how to change PLH to solve that harassment issue! So far I've only heard people asking for the version that led to harassment, but no solutions for how to prevent the harassment!
Translation into other languages in the future?
Why did you ruin and destroy this addon!? Revert the old state or give option for it, that it automatically announces in a group, who can trade an upgrade for who. It doesnt make any sense in the way you changed it. The addon is totally useless now.
- there is no time to whisper everyone for a trade
- in random 5 man groups, it worked flawless before with auto announce in group chat who can trade
Revert it back to that state. In raid fine, there is no raid, but for 5 man group, give the old way back how it worked.