Flashpoint Loot Priorities.

The fortunate thing for you is, you won't have to group with a 10 year old tank in the future. Seriously, "I didn't get any loot so I'm going to just need on something?" Who needs to play with a player like that?

Just to pipe in, I seem to remember them saying quite some time ago that they were going to be adding some sort of "companion" option to the need/greed/pass stuff, and that once they did, they would "fix" need so it only lets you need on stuff YOU can actually use.

That being said, I think this may have actually been said before 1.2 dropped, so it's quite possible this fell off the table at some point.

Again, define what "NEED" means to you, then define what "NEED" means to another player?
- I WANT Credits (Valid)
- I WANT gear for my Companion (Valid)
- I WANT the gears mods (Valid)
- I WANT it for <insert reason here>

Who are you to ASSUME what "NEED" means to another player?

See what Im getting at? I feel your pain, you lost a roll, so do what the rest of us do, RUN IT AGAIN. Its really that simple.

And please, enough with the whole "LAZY" argument, its not a valid response to your issue at hand.

I never realized this game had so many whiners.

I had a rather negative experience last night in a random LFG party.
My friend and I queued together, she was on her Jedi Sage and I was on my Jedi Sentinel, the run itself went very smoothly, right up until the final boss.

When it was downed, it dropped the Token piece for a set of the JEDI KNIGHT/SITH WARRIOR specific Tier gear. Naturally, as this was an upgrade for my character, I needed it... as did the tank, who was a Jedi SHADOW, a class which cannot even use/trade, or in any other way benefit from said token piece... and, of course, he won the roll.

When my healer friend questioned him, asking why he would need on a piece of gear he cannot use when it was clearly an upgrade for someone else in the party, HIS friend and guildmate replied that, "The tank was upset because no gear had dropped for him during the run, so he needed that in order to get SOMETHING."

First and foremost, I think we can all agree that this was beyond words in terms of rudeness and just flat out unnecessary behaviour.

Secondly, I GENUINELY hope that in the future, Bioware adds a system that makes such pieces that are CLASS specific able to ONLY be needed upon by members OF said CLASS. Granted, this won't solve completely the issue of 'ninja looting', but at least such a system would aid in cutting down on said behaviour.

That being said, I certainly hope this person develops a better attitude toward group looting in the future. I've gone many times where I've run multiple, (four to nine), random Flashpoints without even once seeing a piece of gear that might benefit my character. It. Happens. Sometimes your luck just isn't there. When that happens, deal with it, but don't jack other people out of gear because you're mad at the random loot generator.

That point matters naught. Fact of the matter is that the item IS BENEFICAL to the Shadow. The OP spread a story that was simply false.

If you don't like the system, form your own group and set a different loot system. If you can't be troubled to do that, you have to deal with random idiots and the need/greed loot system.

You chose the latter. You don't get to complain about the choice you made.

Sadly, this issue has been plaguing MMO's for ages and this exact point was complained about way back in early closed Beta as well. It's really surprising to me that with so many players having so many creative idea's to solve the problem countless players have complained about in countless MMO's, why does it still persist?

And just call them out on the forum (Server Thread) or in general chat.