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Modules
- RCLootCouncil - GroupGear
- RCLootCouncil - ExtraUtilities (Currently in beta)
- RCLootCouncil - EPGP - adds epgp support, by safetee
WoW Classic
Head over to the RCLootCouncil Classic page for more info.
Battle for Azeroth / Personal Loot
With patch 8.0 Blizzard decided to remove Master Loot and make Personal Loot the only loot option for raids. As a firm believer in distributing loot in an orderly fashion to where it helps the group progress, I've converted RCLootCouncil to work with Personal Loot. I realise not everyone will want to use RCLootCouncil with PL, but for those who wants to, it's now an option.
Items looted with Personal Loot are still tradeable as long as it has an equal or lower item level as gear already possessed for that slot. This means any tradeable items are automatically added to a session and can be voted upon as usual. With ML no longer an option, the group leader acts as the ML for all intents and purposes.
Once an item is awarded, the owner will get a popup with whom to trade the item to. Simply click the row when in trading range, and the trading is done as automatically as possible.
Features
Every last detail of RCLootCouncil is also described in the Wiki!
- Loot Council automatization
- Automatically starts a loot session with any tradable items looted by raiders. Shows the VotingFrame for council members and LootFrame for other raiders
- Fully implemented loot frame
- No need to link your items, RCLootCouncil comes with an automatic system for looting, where raiders can indicate their choice to the council.
- Customizeable council
- You decide who's council, wether based on guild rank or custom added members, all with a nice and simple interface.
- Automated display
- Whenever someone in the council votes RCLootCouncil updates across the raid to reflect the changes.
- Semi-automated loot distribution
- Due to the restrictions with PL, any owner of an item intended for someone else will see a frame indicating with whom the item should be traded to. When in range (indicated in the frame) simply click the row, and the trading is done as automatically as possible.
- Customizable
- The group leader decides which and how many buttons to display, as well as the corresponding text, response text and color to display for the council. There's a lot of other customizeable options for those who wants specific settings for their group. You can also change the appearances and scale frames with ctrl-scrollwheel.
- Easy to use
- Ready to use out-of-the-box, you really don't have to do anything to get started.
- Built-in loot history
- You can track every awarded item and the related statistics if you want to, and export it when you need it!
- Configurable
- If the packaged solution doesn't fit your needs there's a lot of different options in the Options menu to play with, and new possibilities is just a request away.
- Autopass
- If your class can't equip an item, simply enable auto passing and you won't have to bother rolling on that item.
- Custom sessions
- If you for some reason want to add an item to a session, the group leader can do so using the "/rc add" command. See commands below for more info.
And more
- In game synchronization of settings and history, modular extension, send notes to the council, plenty of automatisation options, minimizing automatically in combat or manually, and more.
Setup
Have every raid member install RCLootCouncil and the addon will handle the rest. In case someone in your raid haven't installed the addon (not recommended) just tell them to whisper their item(s) the loot would replace to the master looter, and the addon will extract as much data from it as it can. Whispers is enabled by default. See the "Whispers" section for more details.
Usage
The raid leader is prompted with a confirmation to use the addon upon entering a raid. When accepted, the addon is watching all tradable items looted, finds the council and activate their addon as well. If the group leader haven't set a council, he's prompted to do so. Use "/rc council" to open the council interface.
Whenever items are looted, RCLootCouncil detects any tradable items above the group's loot threshold and promps a list showing the lootable items detected with the current settings. From here the group leader can click "Start" and councilmembers is prompted with a voting frame and everyone sees the looting frame. When players click their reply (default is "Mainspec/Need", "Offspec/Greed", "Minor Upgrade" and "Pass") the council interface shows their responses, and council members can start voting. When the council has agreed, the group leader simply rightclick a given player from the list, click award. The owner of the item is then prompted with the TradeUI indicating with whom to trade the item to. When in trading range (as indicated in the frame) simply click the row to start a trade as automatically as is possible. The rightclick menu also shows a number of different options, including other reasons to award the item and reannounce the item(s).
RCLootCouncil is ready to use right away, however there's a range of options available to those that wishes. From v2.0 all non Master Looter options is shown in the default options page (/rc config) while all Master Looter options are found when expanding RCLootCouncil to the left of the frame. The Master Looter options is applied to everyone in the raid, and only the current Master Looters options is used at any given time.
Commands
prefix: /rc or /rclc
- config or c - opens the options menu.
- open - opens the voting frame.
- council - displays the council options.
- version or ver - opens the version frame, good for testing whom has the addon installed.
- history or his - opens the loot history.
- whisper - shows a brief guide to how the whispers work.
- reset - resets the addon's frames' positions.
- test (number) - starts the addon in test mode. Add number to test with a specific amount of items.
- sync - opens the synchronization window.
- trade - opens the TradeUI.
- add [item] - when ML, use this command followed by an item to add it to the session frame.
- award - when ML, use this to start a session with all items flagged as "Award Later".
- list - when ML this prints a list of all the items in your inventory handled by RCLootCouncil.
- remove (number(s)) - removes one or more items from the list, specified by it's index.
- clear - clears the list.
Planned Features
- Please create a ticket if you have your own ideas.
Whispers
This feature has been included as of popular request. Raiders without the addon installed can whisper the Master Looter to get added to the consideration list. It's still preferred to install the addon, as it gives full functionality.
Syntax: session response item1 item2
Session is required, and matches the session provided if the Master Looter has turned on "Announce Consideration". Response is optional. If provided it'll be matched to the Master Looter's keyword list, which again matches a given response. You can whisper "rchelp" to the ML to see this list. Defaults to the first response (Mainspec/need) if not provided. At least one item must be provided to be added. This item should be the one currently equipped so the council can make a decision. Simply shift-click your item to add it to the message.
Example:
- /w Potdisc 2 [item]
- If Potdisc is the Master Looter, you would be added in the second session with the reponse "MainSpec/Need" with your [item].
- /w Potdisc 1 os [item1][item2]
- If Potdisc is the Master Looter, this adds you to the first session with the response Offspec/greed and shows both your requipped items.
The keywords can be edited in the "Buttons and Responses" tab in the options menu. Once the addon is enabled, i.e. when in a group, players can whisper "rchelp" to the Master Looter to receive the list of keywords.
Support
Want to support the development of RCLootCouncil and/or my other addons? Buy me a cup of coffee (I drink loads when programming) through Paypal or become a Patron.
See also
There is currently a WeakAura that breaks this addon. https://wago.io/BywnWCwKm IT allows everyone with the weak aura to see all of the votes for loot council. Is there a way to stop this short of telling everyone to get rid of it? Thanks.
In reply to Philz0rd:
I'm aware of it's existence, and while I could patch these "hacks" I don't really want to. Due to the nature of addons being open source and by Blizzard's EULA can't be obfuscated, all that would result in is a "cat and mouse" of me "fixing" whatever hacks people make, and them finding new ways of overcoming said fixes. All that would result in is a slower experience, and all that for something that isn't really critical for functionality.
It may be possible to have it removed from their site, but I'm not aware of any reporting feature short of writing them directly.
In reply to evil_morfar:
Any chance in a future patch it could be fixed once? I know the majority of my raiders have this WA for the details function and no the portion that deal with RCloot. So I doubt they'd actively search out the updated WA to break the RCloot function again. I get what you're saying about it being a waste of time though. Thanks for the quick reply.
In reply to Philz0rd:
I'll consider it for the next update.
In reply to evil_morfar:
You rock! Thanks for all you do!
I was looking through the options, and noticed Retail has this option. "
Trade Messages Retail Only
Enabled by default. When enabled, RCLootCouncil will print a confirmation to the chat window whenever a candidate succesfully trades an item to the winner."
Will this be able to come to Classic?
In reply to kellanvedd:
In Classic you have master loot and can award items directly to candidates - why would you need a trade confirmation?
In reply to evil_morfar:
We were planning on having 1 person collect all the gear, and then hand it out at the end of the raid. We've been talking over how to handle this, and use the app at the same time.
In reply to kellanvedd:
That one person would be the master looter, and he's the one that would get the trade messages anyway. On his end, that's handled with the TradeUI.
Is there a way to manually add entries to the loot history? It seems we've had a few items get looted when players were out of range and it didn't get tracked.
In reply to Ommand:
Not as such, but you can do it using CSV import. Refer to the wiki for more info.
In reply to evil_morfar:
Alright that's a bit of a headache but it's manageable.
Am I missing something in terms of why the loot history isn't always complete? I'm assuming it's strictly a range thing, if the person being awarded loot is outside the combat log range of the master looter then it doesn't get picked up?
In reply to Ommand:
There's no range limit - assuming awards are done correctly, they should be recorded as long as they're in the group.
In reply to evil_morfar:
Interesting, I'll have to yell at our master looter. Thanks for your time.
In reply to Ommand:
Well, I wouldn't rule out a bug, so do get back if you still have issues.
In reply to evil_morfar:
So it appears like the loot history isn't working if loot is handed out during combat. We had people sitting right on top of the boss and loot was going out but not recorded. The only thing we can figure is people were in combat.
Edit: Nope disregard that. We were just out of combat with everyone stacked on the corpse. The last item gave us some sort of time out and the history didn't get recorded.
In reply to Ommand:
What timeout? Are any of you getting any errors? I'd probably need your MLs saved variables to investigate it.
In reply to evil_morfar:
So I guess I don't have exactly the message as it got scrolled off, but it's a message including timeout, itemname, and inventory full. The loot gets passed to the person correctly (inventory not full), but we don't get the chat message nor does the item get recorded into the history. It's happening with probably half of our drops.
In reply to Ommand:
I'd definitely need you to create a ticket for that if you're still having issues with that.
In reply to evil_morfar:
Our master looter discovered he was doing something wrong. I'm not terribly clear on it, something to do with how he was awarding some of the loot. In MC/Ony last night we only had one item go unrecorded, which I believe we can attribute to him doing it wrong.