How to use LootPilot

You need a max-level WoW Midnight character, some bonus roll tokens, and a way to load your character — a Battle.net login, your Armory details, or the free SimulationCraft addon.

• A World of Warcraft character on the Midnight expansion (patch 12.0.5).
• Bonus roll tokens — in Midnight these are Nebulous Voidcore (1 token per Mythic+ roll, 2 per raid roll).
• One of these to load your character: a Battle.net login (one click, no typing), your Armory details (region/realm/name), or the free SimulationCraft addon.

Signed out, your checklist, profile and tokens are saved only in your browser. Signing in with Battle.net is optional — it syncs your saved roll plans to your account so they're the same on every device.

Get your character into LootPilot in one of three ways — sign in with Battle.net (one click), Load from Armory, or a SimulationCraft export.

Option A — Sign in with Battle.net (one click, recommended)

1. In step 1, click Log in with Battle.net and authorize LootPilot (it only asks for your WoW profile).
2. Pick any of your max-level characters from the dropdown — no realm or name typing.

LootPilot loads that character's gear & talents straight from Blizzard — including characters hidden on the Armory. Signing in also lets you run more free sims (logged out you get 2 a day), unlocks your My profile page (all your characters with their saved roll paths), and syncs your plans across every device you sign in on.

Option B — Load from Armory (no login)

1. In step 1, find the Load from Armory box.
2. Pick your region (EU, US, KR, TW).
3. Start typing your realm and choose it from the dropdown.
4. Type your character name. LootPilot looks you up automatically and shows a green check when it finds you.

It pulls your gear and talents straight from Blizzard's Armory. Note: only public characters can be loaded this way, and the data reflects your last logout.

Option C — SimulationCraft addon export

1. Install the free SimulationCraft addon from CurseForge or Wago.
2. Log in on the character you want to optimize (e.g. your main, not an alt).
3. Type /simc in chat — a window opens with your profile text.
4. Press Ctrl+A then Ctrl+C to copy it, and paste it into the SimC box.

The addon is also the only method that carries your already-rolled items — they auto-check off your loot list. Whichever way you load, LootPilot detects your class, spec, armor type and main stat automatically — there are no manual filters to set. This profile becomes the starting point everything is compared against.

LootPilot lists every Mythic+ and raid item your spec can roll on — check off the ones you've already won from a bonus roll.

• The list is auto-filtered to your class and spec — Mythic+ dungeons first, then raids (you roll on a specific boss).
• Each item shows the top players' Max Key and Popularity; hover for full tooltip details.
• Check off any item you've already won from a bonus roll — a bonus roll can't give you the same item twice, so it leaves your pool and the remaining items get likelier. Items you got from a normal drop can still come from a bonus roll, so leave those unchecked.

Your check-offs are saved in your browser, so they're still there next time.

DPS and tanks run the sim on Simmit (one click) or Raidbots; healers run it on QuestionablyEpic. LootPilot picks the right path automatically from your spec.

Paste the report link, enter your bonus roll tokens, and click Analyze & rank — LootPilot returns the best combination of rolls you can afford.

1. Paste your report link (Raidbots or QE) and click Load report — LootPilot pulls it in automatically.
2. Enter your bonus roll tokens (Nebulous Voidcore) — type in how many you have. It's required — the ranking is weighed per token.
3. Click Analyze & rank.

You get a ranked, token-budget plan: which places to roll, the upgrade chance per roll, and the single best combination of rolls that fits your tokens (marked with a star).

LootPilot ranks rolls three different ways, and the recommendation changes with the one you pick.

What do the three sort modes mean?

• Value / token — the most upgrade for each token spent. Best when tokens are your bottleneck.
• Expected value — drop-chance-weighted value. A pool you've narrowed to one item counts in full; a multi-item pool counts less (the % is your chance of any upgrade there).
• Best upgrade — the single biggest possible upgrade, regardless of odds. "Roll this until it drops, then work down."

Why are some upgrades not counted?

A roll that changes your sim by only a tiny amount is a sidegrade, not an upgrade, so it isn't counted. LootPilot is item-level-aware: a piece that raises your item level counts even for a small gain, while a same-item-level piece (just a secondary-stat reshuffle) has to clear a higher bar to count.

What about rings, trinkets and raid lockouts?

Rings and trinkets are combo-aware — LootPilot knows which two you'd run together and recommends the pair rather than two competing items for the same slot. Hover a recommended ring or trinket and the comparison marks which of your two equipped pieces it replaces (the weaker one) with "← replace this". Raid bosses can normally be rolled once per week, so the plan won't recommend the same boss twice — with two exceptions that re-roll all week like Mythic+: any raid on Heroic, and the flexible Sporefall raid even on Mythic. Mythic+ has no weekly lock.

What does the "↻ Catalyze" tag mean?

Some armor is worth more after running it through the Catalyst to become a class set piece. The five tier slots (head, shoulders, chest, hands, legs) grant the set bonus; the other catalyzable slots (waist, wrist, feet, back) are off-tier — you can still catalyze them for their stats, but they give no set bonus. When catalyzing is the better play, LootPilot marks the roll ↻ Catalyze and the hover shows exactly which piece you'd end up with. If keeping the raw drop is better, no tag appears.

Bonus roll

An extra chance at loot from a dungeon or boss, paid for with a token. LootPilot tells you which one is worth the most.

Nebulous Voidcore

The bonus roll currency in WoW Midnight — 1 token per Mythic+ roll, 2 per raid roll.

Catalyst

A WoW system that converts a non-tier armor drop into your class tier set piece. LootPilot tests both the raw drop and its catalyzed form and recommends whichever is better — marked ↻ Catalyze when catalyzing wins.

Profileset

SimulationCraft's name for the "sim setup" LootPilot builds — one input that tests many gear variations at once, so Raidbots can rank every loot candidate in a single run.

Raidbots Advanced

The Raidbots mode that runs raw SimulationCraft scripts. LootPilot's sim setup is meant to be pasted here.

QuestionablyEpic (QE)

The standard healer gearing tool. Its UpgradeFinder ranks loot by HPS, which is why healers use it instead of Raidbots.

DPS / HPS

Damage per second / healing per second — the metric each path ranks upgrades by.