Jun 29, 2009
Posted by Spooner | 9 Comments
Not so bound on pickup raid loot in 3.2
How many times has loot been miss-looted to the wrong person? Human error happens what can I say. I know that I’ve had to get epic loot ticketed by a GM to other players or to myself from another player in the past, the wait time is flat out caused by the sheer amount of identicle issues. So in order to cut down on the work load for in game support staff, Blizzard is allowing epic loot off raid bosses in Patch 3.2 to be traded to other players for 2 hours after its initial pickup. You guys think this is a good idea or a bad idea?
I think it is a grand idea that someone will screw up for us. =)
Good:
Yay! Can trade that mislooted item instead of waiting 1-3 days for a GM to get around to the ticket.
Bad:
People will surely start whispering other people ‘Dude! I’ll buy X for Y!’ and possibly become annoying.
At least they limit it to people that could have also been sent the item by the master looter, so that’s something. =)
i think its great! I’ve had this happen to me a bunch of times, and its never good. especially since most of my raid run way into the night, people start to get a little tired.
like on my guilds clear of naxx 25 man this week (the first of many!) a badass trinket dropped for my warlock younger brother. his in game name is fuglyone, but the master looter mistakenly gave it to a guy named hairyone. simple mistake and at 3:30am i don’t blame the guy. but it was a little frustrating knowing that now he has to wait for a gm to grant him what he won. (and on his birthday too, poor guy.)
as with many things, this should have been in the game for years.
Even with the buying epics part, it’ll only be an issue in PuGs and then really who cares about PuG loot? It’ll mean that the mage friend of mine who has run OS25 every week since release can finally get her trinket.
I just have faith that my fellow players will find a way to fuck this up. =) That’s all.
And the obvious answer to who cares about PUG loot would have to be — people that PUG. =) I PUG a lot, my guild is too small for 25 man content, so I end up pugging it a lot.
It can also mean that guilds can “auction off” loot if the effort is there. I wonder exactly how this might work as well for legendary items like the fragments in Ulduar. I know a friend of mine is about 10 or so short of getting the 30 required.
also add into that… say me and my friends go to a 25 man pug and one of us wants some thing that drops… all of us can roll… giving us x# chances to win it and just handing it to what ever one of us wants it… (assuming that there apears to be a valid reason to roll..) it probably wouldnt work to have your rogue friend roll on the mage Twhatever gear… but casters rolling for caster trinks or melee for a neck or somthing might work… as much as i would like to exploit it… i think its only going to cause more trouble than anything else… i think it should be if the loot was handed out wrong.. you can only return it to the ML and they can re issue it…
I can only imagine that’d be a coding nightmare and a lot of responsibility on the ML :/
Returning it to the ML actually sounds good to me, though the coding angle I have no idea how difficult that would be to do. They’re already responsible for loot distribution, it would only mean they had the means to correct any mistakes they made, so I bet most would be grateful for the change to work that way. =)
It’ll be abused. Period. People will roll on stuff they don’t really want to help the chances of a friend that can use it using it. I can already see the problems as a feral druid with boomkin as my offspec being accused of rolling for stuff just to trade it away.