Please, Don't Roll on Items for Another Class in Your Team

NEED = need. That item is an upgrade or the mods inside it are an upgrade.
Greed = yeah, I'd like that but I don't need it. I could use the credits.
Pass = I'm a chamillionaire.

What is this the 5th thread? 6th? How many pages? 300+?

Anyone who thinks there is a consensus on this is not really paying attention or is so self centered they literally believe whatever they think is the ONE TRUE WAY and everyone else is just a group of heretics and trolls.

Discuss the rules with your group before leaving. Most people are used to doing something one way, but if they find out others want to do it a different way they will be more than happy to adjust.

But not saying anything before hand then pitching a fit when someone doesn't do what you wanted them to do is idiotic.

Going to throw another log on the fire here...

Based on the research I have done so far, and I will admit up front that it's not exhaustive, that anyone rolling on a Blue or Green item, when they have a orange item slotted in that location is in fact taking items that are not an upgrade for them.

Looking at a few items it seems that orange items that have all blue mods in them, are superior stat wise to any blue item in the game.

Not just because you can tailor the stats on the item to suit you better, but also because you will get over all a bigger increase to stats with orange items then you can with blue ones. Green ones are even worse, because they have less armor then you can get with a orange or blue item.

So unless someone can somehow refute this, anyone who rolls Need on a blue item, when they have a orange item slotted. They are in fact rolling need on something that isn't an upgrade, which is I believe the classic case of why someone should roll Greed, and not Need.

The blue item could be for a companion?

They could roll Need on the blue item because it's an upgrade for their companion, of course. In such a case it qualifies as a need if they place priority on their companions having Flashpoint-quality gear. Not all upgrades go on the PC itself.

Companions rolls are no different than offspec rolls in other games. The only difference is that after the first instance in TOR, your companion will likely never enter into a flash point again. So, you could almost argue that needing for companions in a group environment in TOR is worse than needing for offspec in games like WoW and Rift because at least you could use your offspec in a group environment later on in those games.

Or it is an upgrade to their orange item that doesn't have mods currently slotted in it that give greater stats than the blue item? So because I have the level 10 orange lightsaber, I should never be allowed to need on a blue lightsaber because the orange saber "has the potential" to have better stats?

So a player should never be allowed to roll on an upgrade to an item because they might later replace that item sometime down the line?

Your premise is flawed, because it assumes an objective authority that isn't present. To you companion rolls are no different than offspec in other games. To another player, who relies heavily on a companion and is leveling (and thus spending more time questing, statistically, than in Flashpoints), gearing their companion is a very present reality, and if they want their companion wearing gear from Flashpoints, their right to facilitate that is the same as yours to choose your companion's gear as a secondary consideration.

So the gear that drops in flashpoints is only useable in flashpoints?

No, they're totally different than offspec rolls. the latter requires that you chance spec's for it to actually be useful, and the former is useful in your primary spec as well.

It's closer in analogy to an item that's an upgrade for both your main and off spec in wow (for a boomkin/resto druid, some items fit this).

No, I've used mine in several. Not to mention all of the heroics I do with them. And when grouped with someone doing non-instanced content in general, even at level 50.

This doesn't make any sense at all.
For one, it's not true; as I mentioned above, they are used in group content by people.

Beyond that, your prioritization of instanced group content over all other content is simply your priority; going against your personal priority isn't actually an objectively bad thing, so there's nothing objectively worse about the situation that you have in your example.

This is analogous to saying that people who make chocolate ice cream are better people than ones that make strawberry ice cream, just because you prefer chocolate.