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gwmort
03-27-2006, 04:58 PM
I was in a PuG with my RL cousin this weekend, when he got accused of ninjaing an item and then the disgruntled priest quit the instance.

Before we started the run we established the loot rules, which I thought were pretty generous as:

1. Everyone gets one "Need"
2. If it is an upgrade you can roll as many "greed" as you want including blues and BoP
3. If no one wants to use pass and then we'll roll on the shard.

Well we go into a particular miniboss encounter and both my cousin (mage) and the priest are hoping for a particular cloth drop. The drop occurs and the priest hits pass and my cousin hits Need. They had both said they were going to use it as their need before we even fought the guy. The priest apparently assumed everyone would pass and then the needers would roll. That was not my cousin's understanding. It was the first time in the instance anyone had chosen to use the need feature, a couple of other times everyone passed and then someone decided to take it as a "Need".

First off, I know some groups pass on everything and then decide. But why? If you are going to roll need anyway why pass so you can roll on it, instead of just rolling on it?

I could see if it was a greed situation and you wanted the possibility of a third person DEing or something, but not in a need situation.

Have other people had bad experiences with misunderstood loot rules?

Rainlight
03-28-2006, 07:13 AM
This is one of the main reasons why most people nowadays put on Master Loot for bosses. These misunderstandings happen.

Waterloo
03-30-2006, 06:16 PM
I have...quite badly....


I had a feral druid ninjaing the caster items (really now....she was dps and I was the healer) first she took a staff the warlock needed and then she tried to take a cloth item....

In the end she decided to call everyone else the ninjas. -___-

*in the end though I would NEVER trust anyone who runs around spamming someone's name in the capital cities and saying that that person is a "ninja". Most likely they're just mad about something that was their fault and want to make the other person miserable....

Trixtaa
03-30-2006, 09:32 PM
True ninjas are the ones who goes afk during fights and only follows around using follow feature and comes on as soon as we beat boss, takes item and says hes g2g

gwmort
03-31-2006, 08:13 AM
yeah uh, no one does that and if they do you deserve it for letting them stay in group.

Tarrasque
03-31-2006, 09:43 AM
ML is the solution.

You need a reliable person for that but it is definetely the best way.

The other day we were in UD Strat and a blue X-bow dropped, it was a major upgrade for the hunter, the warrior rolled and won it....

We dumped the warrior from the group and blacklisted it but the dmg was made... with ML that wouldn't happen as the person in charge would never give a xbow to a warrior instead of a hunter...

Tarrasque