Hey guys. I’ve got an idea. Why don’t we start some new World of Warcraft characters together? It’ll be fun. We can watch the intro cutscene, spend a minute or two setting up our UI for the, like, two spells we have at level 1, talk to the first couple of quest-givers, head out into the Mulgore plains to beat up some Plainstriders–
Oh hey, this one dropped some loot. Let’s grab it. I click the Plainstrider and open the loot window. I see a Leg meat, a Light Feather, and a Cracked Shortbow.
I sit there for several seconds. Nothing happens.
Oh, crap. I forgot I have to loot each item manually, individually, because I forgot to toggle on the autoloot setting in the menu.
Is this an extremely minor, easy thing to do? Just a single box to check in the settings menu? Absolutely. But ever since World of Warcraft launched 22 years ago, players have had to do this for every. single. character they make. Because no one loots items individually! No one has time to sit there and click through every grey piece of trash every single enemy drops! Autoloot is so convenient! One click on the enemy’s corpse and it all just plops neatly into your inventory, no hassle, no fuss! Why would I not want this to happen automatically every time?
Anyway, you get the gist. Blizzard is fixing this deeply minor yet perpetual annoyance in its next major patch, Curse of Ula’tek.
Curse of Ula’tek is significantly more than this, probably a trivial UI adjustment. There’s a new zone, a new eight-boss raid, new world bosses, new delves, quests, a new dungeon season, lots of stuff. It sounds great. It’s themed around the Amani trolls and the drama that was set up with them at the start of the Midnight expansion, so we can expect lots of waterlogged ruins and cool troll architecture and enemies that look like various types of snakes. It’s out in less than a week, and I’m looking forward to bopping around this new “Coiled Isle” place we’re apparently going.
But most importantly, I will be able to open the settings menu and set up my autoloot checkbox to be account-wide, so the next time I make a character, autoloot will already be checked for me. I literally never have to think about this problem again. Thank you, Blizzard!
