by vonkaar » Thu Nov 04, 2004 9:17 am
Even with loot threshholds, it's still a stupid way to loot.
This has happened SIX TIMES now... Since I started going with complete strangers to instances, it seems like it's an every day occurance. People are so used to hitting the dice icon to roll, they don't even look at the item. Yesterday, a warrior won a kickass cloth helm. Earlier that day, a rogue won a 15int/8spirit necklace. They don't look.
When I group with friends, we put it on round-robin. If a green item drops, the person that looted the corpse gets it... unless someone speaks up with a, "whoah, I'll roll on that..." or something similar. When a blue item drops that nobody needs, we all roll on it for AH. Easy system.
Taxx and I have grouped with new people, and they always seem to want FFA. And then, they always roll on every fucking item that drops. Yesterday, after losing out on a cloth robe, cloth legs and an assload of gems... I had the chance to 'roll' on a blue dagger. The highest roll was a 32 and I was the only person that still needed to roll. I asked the group if anyone needed it, and the warrior that won all that shit (and like, 5 gems...) said that he'd definitely use it because it's a huge upgrade. So, I passed on it and he got it. The rest of the instance, he never swapped to daggers... until the very end when we did an escort quest with super-easy mobs to kill. He said in group, "this dagger is great, up to 40 skill now." So... I gave him a fairly nice dagger so he could skill up in it. And later, he'll go auction all his shit for another 10g.
This isn't the EQ mindset that I'm used to. If something drops, people should say that they need it... and they get it. If two people want it, they roll. I saw a mage get a KICK ASS dagger, even after the rogue in the group linked us his ghetto green dagger 10 levels old. People are way more cut-throat in this game =/.
Gaazy wrote:Now vonk on the other hand, is one of the most self absorbed know it alls in my memory of this site. Ive always thought so, and I still cant understand why in gods name he is here