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

Cosmetics improve the way a player presents his character to other players. In case you didn't notice, this is an MMO, which supposedly is a rather social form of gaming. This isn't spreadsheets are us. Even your min/maxing behaviour isn't really necessary within this game. Though a real min/maxer would've had those exact same mods already, preferrably in purple too.

You still believe i'm making this statement for myself. If you roll need for looks on an item that wasn't designed for your class (stats, armor class etc) over anyone (don't have to be me) who's playing a class that it was designed for AND it's an upgrade then you are acting like a greedy selfish person.
If that person is ok with you rolling then it's fine but you wouldn't know that without asking. I have passed on stuff that was an upgrade for me for other people for several reasons. Small upgrade, I won a couple times and I figured to let others win something even though they themselves can't use they would like for their companion etc. But all these people asked instead believing they can do as they please with total disregard for anyone else in the party be it myself or someone else.

THAT is not mature behavior and THAT is why World of Warcraft treats you like a child and have to force the right behavior onto you because you seem to not have learnt it on your own.

Utility should ALWAYS trump cosmetic appeal. The gear is there to help characters progress, to beat ever difficult content. If this were Project Runway Online I would be on board with selecting gear based on look.

So you put that gear there? You are the one who makes the decision on what people are allowed to need on when they helped down a boss?

Really people, i'm not telling you to go roll on everything just because you can. I'm not telling you to change your way of playing. I'm saying that yours isn't the only way, and telling others they have to follow that way is the most selfish position there is. BioWare, ie the people who made this game, are the ones who decide the way it works. They made it rather neutral and equally fair for all parties who helped beat an encounter. We are the ones who make restrictions beyond that. But when you want to force YOUR restrictions on someone else, by not telling them those restrictions beforehand, YOU are the one being immature.

You expect everyone to feel your way is right and mature and whatnot. Keyword being expect. And yet you say "you shouldn't roll need on that item because it's a big upgrade for him but you only want it for looks" Do you know what that sounds like to that person? It sounds like you're telling them they're wrong and less important than the other person. You're telling them to forfeit their entitled roll that the system gives them so someone else has a better or guaranteed chance at an item.

And i've seen it many times before. You go in for an item for looks, but someone needs for stats. Fine. You go again, same issue, again, same issue, again, same issue. Repeat as many times as you like. Might you get it eventually? Possibly, but still, someone telling you, you are not allowed to roll, is the epitome of selfishness.

Unfortunately the system is designed in such a way to give everyone the same chance to roll on something.

And yet it is still opinion. Your way of playing, which may even be the majority should not trump someone elses way of playing. Unless BioWare states that is how it should be, or changes the system to reflect that, it will still be an opinion. And you still think I do this, I don;t I have my own way of doing things, passing to people who get more benefit and such. But the system is still what it is, until it is changed or BioWare states otherwise.

Do you honestly believe if a piece of gear drops and for Player A it is an upgrade and Player B just wants it for looks that Player B should have as much right to that piece of gear? If so, I guess we disagree on the purpose of gear in MMOs.

At the end of the day it all comes back to whatever the loot rules are at the time. In my group you wouldn't be rolling Need and in your group perhaps you would. To each his or her own.

What???? The point of a Need/Greed roll is that the chances are different.

This is the way a Need/Greed system normally works, AFAIK:-

Everyone gets a roll, but the rolls for people who click Need ar prioritized over the Greed rolls. That means, everyone actually does have a chance to get the item, whether they clicked Need or Greed, but people who click Need have a higher chance.

IOW, it is theoretically possible to win an item with a Greed roll if someone else has rolled Need, just highly unlikely.

If this isn't the system BW have implemented, then it's not standard so far as I am aware.

Clarification BW?

I pity you and the people you interact with. You ignore simple codes of conducts and English definitions of the words "need" and "greed" for your own selfish wants and hide behind the statement (because it's so flimsy it can't even be construed as an argument) that BioWare didn't say it should be so.

I truly wish you learn how to interact with people in the future and think of someone other than yourself. I'm done with you period.

If BioWare had no intended it, they would not have implemented it.