No, You May Not Roll on Items for Another Class and Strip Out the Mods

Yep, and once I reach a point where I no longer have any need for a companion I'd stop trying to upgrade them. Because they will no longer have any impact on my game play. Until that time I think it's completely fair to roll need on an item that will directly improve my ability to go though content.

So if a different player can use it, but it's a bigger upgrade for you then them, do you tell them they can't roll need on it? Because only the person who gets the most use out of it has the right to need it?

But there is class specific items in the game. There are items you can only use on a Jedi Knight, or Smuggler. Those items can not be used on a companion. Last night I saw a nice set of orange robes on the GTN. I bought them for my companion but found out she can't wear them, because they are JK/JC only robes and she's not a Consular.

In those cases yes, you shouldn't roll need on them, because your companion can't use them.

But if the item has the right armor type, and right stats for your companion, then they are fair game, because clearly Bioware set that item up in such a way that the companion could in fact wear it.

I would make use of gear for Bounty Hunters and Siths (light armor) if I'd like to equip my companions, because such are the items that my companions are capable of wearing. I am not sure how about the other classes.

Setanian - There is no point discussing when you don't have the context of what has been already told before (and what explains my current posts).

Try playing that way in a guild, which you'll need to be in to organize a large enough group that can work together to do end-game content, and we'll see how far needing on everything gets you.

But that's not what you said. What you said was:

"selfishly rolling on gear that will only aid you when not grouped with other players"

By that reasoning, it doesn't matter whether the item is for me or my companion - the companion may be a specific example of an item which will only help when I'm not grouped, but it's far from the only one.

You're trying to come up with some way to separate an item for a companion from an item for the main - but there's no way to do it. The simple fact is, improving my companion improves me. You tried to do it by zeroing in on "Only claim items that improve what you're doing right now", but that has a HUGE number of holes in it. Unless you're going to start trying to measure the potential non-grouping use of an item for each person, you're going to have to find another distinction to justify why companions don't qualify.

I agree, unless there is grind roles, definition of need varies. Also, I think veteran players forget that because there so use to the unwritten laws. I know in wow there almost an unwritten law that states rolling need for off spec is nijaing but as the 5 mans become older ppl don't qq. As much but then again I tell ppl I am only rolling off spec I can leave if you don't like it.Sometimes ppl r like you can roll on anything u want except this

Yes, absolutely. The person who needs it the most gets it. If I'm in an FP with another Sage and I see the item that just dropped is a 20 willpower boost compared to the 5 willpower boost I'd get for completing it, they should ABSOLUTELY get that item. I just thought it was an unspoken thing, really.

Newsflash: This is SW;ToR not Wow..

Who else would they be rolling against? Themselves?

Assumtion or do you have some facts to back this claim up?

So you know everyone personally, their living arrangements and what time they walk their dog I guess. Must be a heavy load having so much knowledge of everyone else. Me, I think you pulled that statistic out of somewhere smelly.


I knew I should have stopped reading when you mentioned WoW, that told me all I needed to know.

Most guild I been in consider a roll a roll in 5 men and in raids they use a loot consoule or point system. I hate guilds that use a roll system because it's luck and sometimes you just end up gearing ppl before they move to guild that uses a better system.

Reading this thread it's obvious that I'm far from alone in being upset about selfish Loot Snatchers. I think from now on I'm gonna warn any group I'm in that Loot Snatching will be rewarded with instantaneous Healer-Quit. Middle of the FP or not.

The good thing is you can see who's doing it - it's right there on the chat window.

But I don't need your social contract. And I don't need anyone to "give up" loot for me. Since I don't expect anyone to give up anything for me, why would I give anything up for them?