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

Nice selective edit there, WANT != NEED, try again.

Also, hypocrisy? pot, meet kettle.

...Considering every group I've ever been in I "Need for Companions" and have never been booted from a Group, I'd call this a silly statement. If I'm grouping with friends, we communicate and discuss whether an item will be better for them or my Companion. If I'm in a random group, then I Need for whatever I think I Need. It's very simple, and in general people are polite enough to respect someone's right to choose whether or not they "Need" an item they worked for just as much as you did.

Your rights extend as far as infringing on mine. You have the right to decide how you choose your loot, I have that same right. Ironically...I HAVE been in groups where someone was booted for whining about not getting Loot they felt someone else didn't need.

So, here's the question:

What is the more mature and "right" thing to do:

1) Allowing only 1 of 4 people an opportunity to have gear simply because YOU believe you deserve it despite the fact that all 4 equally worked towards acquiring it.(Or whining should someone get said item and YOU don't believe they deserve it.)

or

2) Allowing everyone an equal opportunity to have gear everyone equally worked towards acquiring.

?...

Here is what the SWTOR website says about need before greed looting:

http://www.swtor.com/gamemanual/exploring-the-galaxy
I have no complaints with this approach. If I want a good chance at securing the item, I will select need. Otherwise, I will choose greed to give others a better chance at securing the item.

Note that it does not say "if this item belongs to you, press need".

What is actually more mature is me not grouping with you, nor anyone like you, because my personal opinion is that you're a greedy greedy person.

I never said it was my call, nice of you to put words in my mouth. I merely said that I would choose to remove someone like you from group, so would anyone I know.

Have fun. Don't trip over your massive ego and I will try not to trip over mine.

its not a runon sentence. A runon sentence has multiple independentant clauses.

This sentence has 3 clauses, were one is dependent on the other via the word "if" and the other is dependant via the word "that".

clause 1: 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.

the things that some people claim are needs are actually just wants.

calling it a need is just a way of saying "my wants are more important than your wants for my arbitrary reasons"

I invite you to do so. I have a feeling that I'd enjoy pointing out your logical flaws.

Not really, I'm not likely to roll for more than one companion.

That's the same as my rules. The humans get first, and only dibs, since only the 4 humans actually get a roll. They can roll for whatever reason they like though.

Want: something that will you advance towards your objectives in the game (such as things that will improve your fighting ability or appearance, depending what is important to you)

Don't Want: something that will not make any difference to your game experience beyond its value in credits (everyone needs credits, but the credits from any particular loot item isn't going to make too much difference)

Need: something that you must have to advance in the game. Quest items, for example, particularly for class quests which you can't abandon. If there was a key that you had to have before you were able to fly to Alderaan, that might count as a "need".

You don't need a +10 increase to your class stat. You want it.

EDIT: There is nothing wrong with wanting to increase your class stats. There is nothing wrong with wanting to gear your companion. But it is still just something that you want to do and not something that you must do with this particular item to continue playing (especially since there is other gear in both cases you could get if you don't get this one).

He's only a #3 on the greed scale.; you're a #5

From least greedy/selfish to most greedy/selfish

• Guy who passes on everything
• Guy who greeds on everything
• Guy who hits need on the stuff that they think is appropriate to hit need on, and does not demand that anyone ever pass on an item in his favor.
• Guy who hits need on everything, and does not demand that anyone ever pass on an item in his favor.
• Guy who hits need on the stuff that they think is appropriate to hit need on, and demands that everyone else pass on an item in his favor because it meets some arbitrary criteria that he's defined that doesn't actually agree with the game's loot system.

I think that #3 is an acceptable position; #4 is a tad on the greedy side, but I usually won't bother saying anything about it.

#5 on the other hand, is being selfish enough that all people should call them out for it.

Looks like you're contradicting yourself. If you would choose to remove someone, then you're saying that it's your call.

No, it sounds to me like he is saying that you can do what you like, just like he can. It's just if you don't do what he wants, you will get booted from the group.

If he tells you this before the roll (and you agree), then he is perfectly right to do so. If you break rules that were agreed to by the group, you should be booted.

EDIT: The official rule is "If you want a good chance at securing the item, select NEED." If the group agrees to something more restrictive, then that's what they agree to.