Personal Loot Helper (PLH)
2,095,237 Downloads
Last Updated: Jan 18, 2020
Game Version: 8.3.0
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!!!
Hello, our raid loves this tool and uses it a lot to streamline trading loot. however, it does not seem to prompt tradeable loot. It will only prompt people if the loot they've looted is lower than their current ilvl. This means, if I am wearing a 465 bracers but a 475 drops (that IS tradeable) it won't prompt and I cannot use PLH window to offer it to my raid.
Is this something I can fix with my settings? A lot of us opt for lower ilvl items due to benthic during EP and corrupted items in Nyalotha so often we have things that are tradeable but PLH will not prompt because it thinks it's an upgrade. Anyone have advice?
PLH doesn't seem to be working consistently. Any way you can fix this? Thanks!
Seems like PLH is no longer popping up when we're in a guild group, when all of us are using the addon
Great addon that i used like since "forever"
Popupwindow does not work with Elvui any solutions for that?
Can this be made Classic compatible or is there another version for Classic?
In reply to glenmcl:
loot coudnt be traded in vanilla
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?