Well, technically you are both right, but there is a way around this, at least there used to be ( I haven’t tested it in a while)
While you cannot loot a thrall’s corpse directly , you can still loot the loot-bag that spawns after. It’s essentially the equivalent of hanging around waiting for the decay timer on a base, except on a dead thrall’s corpse instead.

The last time I did this, was on an official PvE server (X-Box) - As I said though, it’s been a while since I’ve done it, so it may have been patched since.

I’m kinda curious to see if it still works now… :smile: