WoW Ninja'd my loot.Follow

The way I understand it, Maz isn't completely off-base. Dev comments suggest to me that, for a boss that drops, say, five items in a 25-man raid, either the RNG will pick the top five rolls before displaying the results or each individual's percentage chance will be set so that on average there will be five winners out of 25. Basically, if they want to avoid loot inflation, they have to rein in the drop chances somehow - your chance of winning is not completely divorced from everyone else's, but your individual loot tables are.

The big difference is that no one takes away "your" loot. If the other hunter wins, there's a chance he gets the polearm - but if you also win there's a chance you get one too. And if only clothies win, none of them take an unusable polearm away from hunters.

One knock-on effect that I hope they start allowing for early in profession balancing - high-end crystals for use as Enchanting mats will be an order of magnitude rarer than today unless they change something. Maybe a recipe that's the opposite of "Shatter".

Hmm. Will there be an option "I don't need anything that this boss might drop - just cut to the chase and give me a shard"?

There's been blue chatter that they're not certain if it'll finalize as "each person has an X% chance" or "Y people get loot" but that the only reason they'd go away from the former is the chance of everyone or nobody getting loot.

I'm thinking that what I would like to see is something similar to the holiday boss goodie bags. That way, no one would see what anyone else got unless they opened it while still in raid. That way, even if they went with the everyone has a set chance of getting something, a kill with no loot going out wouldn't really be as noticeable. It would be cool if the bags always contained a little something tangible (beyond JP or VP) even if it were only a couple of random potions or trade goods.

Yes, that could happen. I think it's stupid that they're doing away with letting people trade boss loot after the fact, because of this very thing. Mage 1 shouldn't feel obligated to trade loot he or she doesn't need, but there should at least be the option. I know I'd want to trade the loot to someone who could use it.

I'm probably too nice. When I do LFD, I always just Greed on everything. I have trouble enough keeping up with everyone that I don't have time to really evaluate loot. I'm mostly playing for the satchel and the experience (both XP and learning experience), rather than specific loot. Of course that means I usually don't get anything, but I usually still enjoy myself, and I don't really need great loot for soloing, anyway. To be honest, I'd rather err on the side of not getting loot and having a positive run than getting loot and having a bad time. When I get to level cap, I figure my attitude and choices will change, but then I only have to research the dungeons at that level, and I won't have to worry about outleveling them, like I do for the earlier dungeons. It just seems like a lot of unnecessary work, when the real reason I'm doing dungeons is to increase my ability at my class and to just have fun with other people.