5 Reasons You Should Always Loot Your Corpses in WoW

In World of Warcraft you are constantly surrounded by loot. It's a wonder people still beg for gold to use for mount training, bags, glyphs, and just about anything else. One of the biggest "secrets" in World of Warcraft is to simply loot all of your corpses! Here's a few good reasons why a little bit of right-mouse-clicking is always worth your time when questing and running dungeons.
1. It's the Easiest Way to Make WOW Gold
If you haven't already enabled the option, the Auto Loot interface option (in the controls section) picks up all of the loot on a corpse with just one click. When you create your character, this should be one of the first options you enable! Looting your corpses is the easiest way to make gold because you don't have to go out of your way to do it. All you have to do is click a button every time a mob dies (and it's your turn to loot). So in a dungeon that means clicking one button every five mobs. A monkey can do this. So why don't you do it, too? It's not only the coin that drops that is valuable – all of the cloth and other materials you can obtain from looting mobs really does add up. Even the gray trash items can add up to several gold for each dungeon you complete. You are literally passing up thousands of gold if you don't loot your mobs!
2. Your Group-Mates Will Appreciate It
Nothing infuriates a skinner more than someone who won't loot their beasts and dragonkin. By looting these mobs when it's your turn to do so, you're both making yourself gold and helping the other person out. The same can apply for Mining, Engineering and Herbalism and their respective gather-able mobs. If you are courteous to your group and loot all your mobs so they can use their gathering skill, they will most likely return the favor to you in other ways when needed. (And if you really don't want to loot anything – you can always pass on random loot by clicking on your frame and selecting this option.)
3. You Never Know What You'll Find
Some rare and epic items in World of Warcraft are world drops. This means they have an incredibly small chance of dropping off any mob in Azeroth. That means an unlooted corpse could potentially be carrying thousands of gold! You wouldn't give away tens of thousands of gold for no reason (assuming you're sane, of course.) So why leave all of that wow gold lying on corpses, when it could be in your character's pocket? You literally never know what you'll find when looting a bunch of mobs. Cloth, green items, elementals, other supplies, and even a small chance at a bind-on-equip blue or purple item are all possibilities. But you have to loot your corpses to get them!
4. It's All About the Cash Flow
If your guild is high enough level, an extra 5% or 10% of all the gold you loot is deposited into your guild's bank. This is not a cut of your loot, it is a bonus, so it doesn't take away from your loot at all. This may only sound like a small amount, but over time it helps pay for guild repairs and much more. By looting all of your mobs when able, you're performing a valuable duty to your guild by helping to keep the cash flowing in! (This only applies when looting mobs that drop coin, i.e. humanoids.)
5. It's Better Than Whining Later
Don't be that guy who can't afford flying training at level 60. If you loot all of your corpses while leveling that far, you'll easily have gold for your mount training. You'll even have gold left over for glyphs, gems, and lots of other stuff. (The trick is to save your loot and sell it on the auction house instead of vendoring it when possible!) So instead of being broke when you need the gold, loot all your corpses all the time and you'll always have plenty of wow gold to work with!