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

How am I making the rules? I'll telling you the facts as they are available in game.

If you're so closed to logic, maybe you should leave the thread?

Which is more selfish?

A) Rolling Need on an item you don't actually need, and will likely sell to a vendor.

B) Rolling Need on an item that you will equip and use.

We aren't being selfish. We're standing up for the rights the system gives us, and saying that we don't require another player's approval to exercise said rights. We may do so as a courtesy, but we understand it isn't required, and thus don't grow upset if someone doesn't show that courtesy.

It isn't selfish to stake a claim to something you have an equal right to as anyone else present. If four of us go into a junkyard and find a car that has a diamond stashed in its dashboard, we all four found it. We all four want it equally, though for different reasons (1 to give to his girlfriend, 1 to sell, 1 to sew into a garment, 1 to put into the pommel of a sword they're making for a Renaissance Faire). So we decide to roll a 6-sided die for it, as one of us has one. We each roll, the highest roll gets it, ties re-roll.

We don't let someone say "My need is more than yours, so you should give it to me!" We recognize equal claim due to equal effort at finding the diamond.

That's what's happening in the game: equal effort to generate the piece from the defeated boss, and thus equal, impartial rolls to determine its ownership.

That's all we're advocating.

I'm amazed at the inconsiderate nature of people. You would think I would be used to it after playing MMOs for years, but it still astounds me. I go through most instances with my best friend and I STILL ask if it is okay if I roll need on gear for my companion or whatever. It is simple courtesy. I could simply roll need and he wouldn't stop being my friend or anything. If I can show that courtesy to someone that will be my friend regardless, why can't people extend that same courtesy to strangers?

Stop being selfish.

Where did I say I was closed to logic? I said you would never make me see YOUR logic, which is a nice way of saying I don't think it's logical at all.

They are simply cases of claiming the right to roll on loot from the boss, which is perfectly legitimate.

Yes. I agree with you. However, you are probably getting ready to hear how YOU are the selfish one by imposing rules that prohibit the willy-nilly clicking of the need button because they are by-God ENTITLED, whether or not they can actually use the loot.....

whether or not they can actually use the loot.....

Not speaking for anyone other then myself here. But I'd never roll need on an item I couldn't use. I'd also never roll need on an item that isn't an upgrade for my character.

The difference is, that I recognize that an item on my companion can very much be an upgrade for my character. Especially if I already have BiS gear, on my character for that slot.

Show me anywhere in the past 300 posts where someone advocated 'willy-nilly' clicking of the 'need' button?

I'll wait while you look for just one..