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?
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?