Selecting need for loot

be ready to see this bump to 10/10 for strentching it out to at least 10 pages.

The PLAYER was there. The PLAYER helped to produce the loot. The PLAYER has the right to roll on said loot, regardless of how that PLAYER intends to use it. As I said before, trying to separate the PLAYER from the companion is simply an attempt to justify an entitled attitude, in my opinion.

Characters do not get to roll on items, either, only the PLAYERS do.

Let's look at this logically. The OP helped create the items he rolled on. The OP did NOT, in any way, attempt to prevent any other members of the group from rolling on those items. You want to prevent the OP from rolling on items he helped to produce, in order to maximize your chances of winning said items. Which one is selfish? I'll give you a hint. It sure isn't the OP, in my opinion.

There are valid arguments for both sides. If you need an item for a companion, ask before you need in case a main wants it and don't be a loot ho...pass the next item that drops to make it fair.

There's a thing called common courtesy. You need some of it, OP. If I needed for an item that would be used on a whole separate character I could need for everything if I wanted. I can't believe you actually think you shouldn't be kicked for needing on items for different characters when the people doing the mission with you would be able to use it. If no one wants the item, fine. If you want items for your other character do the mission on your other character.

Now I understand the mindset of them. No wonder.

Does the person sitting next to you control your companion, or do you? This game is not like most MMO's in which a player has only the character they are logged in playing. The companions in this game are an integral part of your character, to the point where you would not be able to survive without them, in most cases. We are not talking about needing an item to send to an alt, but an item that would be used to benefit the character logged in, even by proxy. Is that shiny so important to you that you would ignore the fact that it would not even exist if not for the OP, and deny the OP the right to roll, just so you can guarantee you win it?

In group activities that invole no companions the players go always first. Sure, if yoou like toa have something for a companion that a player could not need at the moment, I don't mind then rolling need (but still it would be polite asking at the start of the flashpoint before doing so). If you behave like an egoist, I can understand that people don't want to play with you then. What next, rolling need in operations, because the companion needs it?

At the end of the day, its a social game. They're not entitled to gear just as you're not entitled to getting a group with people who don't want you to do that.

So keep it up but don't come whining here if people votekick you or won't group with you.

Unwritten rule for NEED is invented in MMO community a long time ago, for a particular reason, efficiency of time spent farming a single content. If it didn't existed, you'd have less chance to win in long run. So everyone benefits from this less farming, more satisfied players. Drops from runs will be more evenly distributed to players that actually use them, rather than most of it going to trash.

As for companions, even though they are part of your character etc etc. they can't be put on same level as your actual char. As OP mentioned, use of companions is limited only to solo content or in groups with max 2 other players. For everything else you have only yourself. Other than that your efficiency increases much less when you gear up your companion, than when you gear up your char. Imagine if you are DPS and are with your DPS companion. Try making a parse with you wearing Dread Guard gear and your companion in Columi. Now try making a parse with ur companion in Dread Guard and you in Columi. Difference is ridiculos. So yeah companions are there to make it easier for you, but in no way can be considered with same importance as ones character.