Simplifying Kael'thas

[Trefane]

My guild is working on Kael'thas, and one part of that fight which is a pain is the looting of the legendary weapons when they die. You're trying to select an item that's laying under four other still-active items and 15 other guildies that are still fighting them. They despawn after only a minute so getting them quickly is vital. I'm looking for ways to simplify that, I have a code editor and I'm not afraid to use it.

Every player needs to

1. Find the corpse of their weapon(s)
2. Open the corpse
3. Loot the corpse
4. Equip

1, 3 & 4 seem possible (/tar Staff, UseContainerItem, /equip Staff). It's #2 I'm wondering if it's possible to do programmatically.

[Kaomie]

First your post had me laugh both for the description of the messy event (I can visually imagine the guildies running and jumping all over the place in the middle of the weapon-ware stuff) and for

Originally Posted by Trefane I have a code editor and I'm not afraid to use it.

As far as the request is concerned it seems to me most of the steps involved are protected and require hardware event, so I am not sure how much of it you can automate with an addon / macro

[Trefane]

Separate hardware events for every step would be just fine. I could put 4 different icons on the screen somewhere that people could click individually. It would still be faster than manually finding the item, shift-click looting it and then opening inventory to equip. Step #2 is the real problem since half the time you end up selecting either a mob or a guildie.

Is it possible to programmatically open a corpse you have selected?

[Tekkub]

Originally Posted by Trefane Is it possible to programmatically open a corpse you have selected?

NO.

Best you're going to manage is turning off auto-loot and moving the loot frame for the selected item under the cursor for fast looting, or closing the loot box if the target item isn't shown. The player still has to sift thru the boddies manually.

[Kaomie]

Originally Posted by Tekkub NO.

Is it just me or we can feel the pain of thousands of crying souls lost in the darkness of never-ending torments in that answer ?

[Trefane]

Indeed, it's exactly the kind of sound I would expect to hear from the contents of my soul bag. Thanks for the responses though.