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

Certainly, it's not a perfect system, and like I said, it's not one I endorse.

But bear in mind that if poor people group with rich, and the rich actually throw copious amounts of money around to get loot... the poor don't stay poor for very long.

In some ways it's a self correcting system. If you go into a flashpoint and need on one item and greed on 2 others and miss out on the one you needed because someone threw 100k at each of the items... then you walk out of the flashpoint 100k richer (well, probably 99,999 Credits, 33,333 each drop that went for 100k); the next time you run that flashpoint, YOU can be the one throwing 100k at the piece of loot you want.

In general, I'd say that one of the most interesting things it does is eliminates the motivation for people to need on stuff to vendor it, which is one of the common complaints you see thrown around.

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Originally Posted by wolveroach
Yeah you participated

Yes, I did - so I earned the right to have the same chance as you to win the items I personally decide I need since I helped to make them drop.

If you do not want me to earn that right, don't ask for my help.

If we're talking about alternate loot systems... I'm actually a little surprised no one has suggested any sort of loot auction option (unless I just missed it). Say, for example:

• each person hitting need puts in a credit value that they're willing to pay for it; minimum price = the vendor price on the item.
• whoever offers the most gets the item, and pays that many credits.
• everyone else in the group gets that amount split.

This winds up biased toward the person in favor of the person who values it the most, and everyone else still gets something.

I seem to recall that there were raids in wow that used something like this, and as I understand it they were fairly popular. It's not something that particularly appeals to me, just something I'm surprised noone else has mentioned.

I will never need your kind of help as it is no help at all.

I am not going to a help random PuG full of strangers run group content if I am not going to get an equal chance to win the fruits of my labor that I personally decide I need.

My kind of help = helps everyone get an equal chance to win what they helped make drop if they decide they need it.

Your kind of help = you get 100% chance to win what you help make drop if you decide you need it and everyone else gets 0% chance to win what they helped make drop if they decide they need it.

My way helps more players in the group then your way does.

Man you are so wrong, I want to write a math paper and make it a proof.



Your kind of help means you and your SEVEN companions are rolling against twenty four other characters and companions (assuming a simple FP) should they play by your rules, the loot goes to the best random roll of a computer and the gear lands where ever trusting the decision of the fickle computer and chance gods. Any gear that ends up on a companion is effectively relagated to open world PvE and PvP.

By my rules, the four HUMANS get first dibs on their class items, after that it is a crap shoot. Those four characters will end up better geared and more effective in future group activities.

I don't care about your companions, but I do care if your character has the gear to survive. Higher number of characters with better gear is better for the server and for me and all the PUGs I join.

the loot goes to the best random roll