Selecting need for loot

And why shouldn't gearing one's companion be considered important if one places value on it?

Why should your desire to gear your character supercede my desire to gear my companion?

Seriously, I hope that people will do that to you, your companion is totally secondary, main character should have priorities and it's common sense but hey there is always a selfish person thinking me, me, me. Anyway I will have boot you on the first need for your Character, if another player needed for his main toon!

Because dear sir... Companions, unlike corporations, aren't people!

That's so asinine that I don't know what to say.

Fine for you to think that way. Its not fine to force people to play with you though, and most people simply don't want to play with people who won't follow the social convention, so deal with the fact that most groups will vote to kick.

Asinine is your assertion that you should be able to need roll on comps. Asinine and selfish.

I've already explained this countless times in this thread.

Basically, your companion is for solo play but you didn't obtain the loot from solo play. Your companion's gear cannot help the group in the Flashpoint therefore upgrading said gear for your companion only benefits you.

I find it sort of a selfish point to take the gear for solo play when someone could use it for all facets of the game: solo play and group play. Therefore, because your companion cannot function in all aspects of the game, they get secondary priority on loot versus someone else who can use the gear all of the time.

That's why I feel my needs are greater - because the gear will be used all of the time. If the group did another flashpoint all together afterwards, having the gear go to someone's toon will show in the group with either more dps, better damage reductions, or better healing. However if you took that loot away from someone to give to your companion... are you seeing any improvement in the groups performance? Of course not... because taking it for your companion only benefits you and no one else.

And please, don't try to argue that .02% damage reduction isn't noticeable therefore my point isn't valid... the spirit of the statement still holds true and there is a benefit to the group if no one is taking for their companion as a priority. If you really want, say there's a group of 4 people who, after 10 runs, have 0 upgrades because every upgrade for their toon has gone to upgrading someone else's companion. That group, after 10 runs, performs just as poorly as it did before, while the other group, who focused on gearing your toon as a priority, now have several upgrades to help them through the FP's and probably some gear for their companions.

Do you not see the benefit to putting companions secondary at that point? Do you not see how "all the time" > "some of the time"?

Actually it's OK if people have a different understanding. The backup plan is the chat window.

Yes! Precisely! There are so many different wants and needs in this game that trying to enumerate and order all of them is a waste of time. I dislike if people hit need for something they are going to sell but I'm not going to make a big deal out of it. Otherwise their reason is as good as mine. If I lose a roll I can whisper them and ask for the item but again it's not a big deal either way. Just for the record I very very rarely hit need. SWTOR doesn't track this but my main WoW character (no longer play WoW) shows 264 need rolls and 5571 greed rolls (pass is not counted but this would be even more than greed). So in all the thousands and thousands of times I could have rolled need, it only happened 264 times. Not everyone that hits need is an evil person.

Awww....
I'm crushed...

I was going for witty
And ended up being called asinine by the latin quoting resident wise man (oh I'll have you know those quotes are appropriate and relevant all ye who say otherwise)

I'll just go cry in a corner now.

Precisely. You have already assigned meaning to the buttons based on the label text.

Contrary to what most people seem to think, I want/need very little.