How To Use A Master Looter
Having a dedicated master looter in your raid can serve two purposes. It can speed up the raid by having one person handle loot while the raid leader continues leading the raid. It can also prevent loot drama that might ensue by letting members Need/Greed using the default roll interface.
To use the Master Looter option, the raid leader can right click his player portrait and set the looting to Master Looter along with a desired threshold of item quality (uncommon, rare, epic). Items of this level or above must be looted manually. Usually a threshold of rare or epic is used. The raid leader can right click anyone’s name in the raid window to assign them this duty. An icon that looks like a bag of money will appear next to their name.
Master looting is a simple process. While viewing the piece of loot you want to distribute, clicking on it will bring up a list of groups. Click on whichever group the person you want to assign the loot to is in, and then click their name. If the item is Bind on Pickup, a confirmation warning will come up.
If the master looter is out of range of the rest of the group, any items that drop for the group will not be master looted, and will simply be rolled upon using the default roll interface. This may happen when items drop off trash mobs between bosses if loot is being distributed. This can be avoided by making sure the group does not get too far ahead while loot is still being rolled for.