No, You May Not Roll on Items for Another Class and Strip Out the Mods

What? The enhancement mod gives them another 3 endurance over the other person getting pluses to every simple one of their stats? Be decent and pass on it. They need it more than you and you might actually feel good about it because you helped them obtain it. Helping others can be a good experience too. Some of you should try it some time.

Did you guys even have parents growing up? If so, did they teach you right from wrong? At all? Anything?

Social contract which allowed you to take need for "your" type of gear case to exist.

Did you guys even have parents growing up? If so, did they teach you right from wrong? At all? Anything?

Right.

Look, I understand that there are differing playstyles, that everyone gets something different out of this game. We all play this game for different reasons. We all want different things out of it.

I am NOT AVERSE TO THIS.

But let's be frank and let's be rational. When you are in a flashpoint or in an operation, your objective is to get to the end of the mission. Your objective is to kill what's in your path. Is that not the case?

Getting upgrades to your equipment that boost your stats HELPS WITH COMPLETING THAT OBJECTIVE. Does it not?

Now I'm a roleplayer, and I like playing dress-up with my characters, too. But getting a really nice set of Jedi robes for my trooper to wear is NOT going to help my team get to the end of that level any more efficiently. So while the loot system may say I can click Need on those fancy robes, me taking those robes does not contribute anything to the betterment of my group.

Now by some people's interpretation, I participated in killing this boss. I showed up, I fought, I deserve to roll. But if I roll and I win, and I take that equipment item, I possibly take it from the hands of that Jedi who could use it for something far more useful than just as a roleplaying aid. And since the immediate purpose of this flashpoint involves COMBAT, roleplaying aids are not helpful. Stat boosts ARE.

But let's be frank and let's be rational. When you are in a flashpoint or in an operation, your objective is to get to the end of the mission. Your objective is to kill what's in your path. Is that not the case?

Getting upgrades to your equipment that boost your stats HELPS WITH COMPLETING THAT OBJECTIVE. Does it not?

Now by some people's interpretation, I participated in killing this boss. I showed up, I fought, I deserve to roll. But if I roll and I win, and I take that equipment item, I possibly take it from the hands of that Jedi who could use it for something far more useful than just as a roleplaying aid.

My companion is not another person. They're an extension of my character. By this logic you should never be able to roll on an item that increases Presence, because it only boosts your other character.

Your companion is more than a pet, but at the core they're still a pet. I don't remember any other game where someone wouldn't be allowed to stake a claim to an item because it only improved their pet.

The fact that so many people have not yet adapted to the fact that in SWTOR, every character is a pet class does not make them right.

Under some cases, a Sentinel wearing orange smuggler gear is ok. But it is never, never, NEVER ok to wear under your maximum armor quality.

They need it more than you...

It isn't about being allowed to need something you want or not. It is about being human and treating others with respect. I notice you left out the part in my quote regarding people having more courage to be disrespectful in the online world compared to face to face.

In the end though, this entire thread is nothing but opinions. Continue to need on items in PUGs that your base class cannot benefit from stat wise and in 6 months you let me know how many groups you are able to get into still with the same character as your rep becomes well known You reap what you sow