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Group Loot (Need / Greed)

When several players team up against a boss, EliteMobs can distribute its drops through a Need / Greed voting system instead of dumping everything for whoever happens to be closest. This is the familiar MMO-style group-loot mechanic: each item is rolled among the players who want it, and the winner gets it soulbound to them.

When group loot triggers​

Group loot is used for instanced dungeon custom-boss drops. When a custom loot item is configured for a dungeon difficulty and a boss drops it inside that instance, EliteMobs collects the drops into a shared loot table for everyone who damaged the boss, rather than dropping the items on the ground.

  • If only one player damaged the boss, the loot is handed straight to them — no voting happens.
  • If two or more players damaged the boss, a loot vote opens and all damagers are notified in chat with a clickable /em loot prompt.

Voting on loot​

Players open the vote with /em loot (permission elitemobs.loot.command, granted to players by default) or by clicking the prompt in chat.

The menu has two columns:

  • Greed (left) — the default state. Items sit here until someone claims them. If you only want an item should nobody else need it, leave it on the greed side.
  • Need (right) — click an item to move it to your Need list. Everyone in the group is notified when you mark or unmark an item as Need.

You have a 60-second window to make your choices. Marking and unmarking items is free during that time; click an item in the greed column to need it, click it in the need column to drop your claim.

How items are awarded​

When the timer runs out, each item is rolled independently:

  • If one or more players marked it as Need, the item is randomly awarded to one of those players.
  • If nobody needed it, it is randomly awarded among all the players who damaged the boss (the greed roll).

The winner receives the item directly into their inventory (it drops at their feet if the inventory is full), the item is soulbound to them, and everyone in the group sees a message announcing who got it.

Command and permission​

CommandPermissionDefaultDescription
/em lootelitemobs.loot.commandtrueOpens the group-loot Need/Greed menu for your current pending loot

If you run /em loot with no loot to vote on, EliteMobs tells you there is nothing to vote on.