You do not understand what Personal Loot is

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@Leviathan-1227

So lets break down “personal loot”

Some people think of Personal Loot as D3 Loot. In D3 everyone has their own instanced loot. This means that if you are playing with 2 people, twice the amount of loot is dropping.

This is not accurate. You are confounding the loot system with loot drop rates. In early D3 vanilla, the drop rates were very low. Currently in D3:RoS, the drop rates are very high. Throughout D3, it always has been personal loot. This clearly disprove the concept that personal loot is associated with high drop rates.

@Leviathan-1227

Another way that people think of Personal loot is Automatically Distributed loot . In this case lets say a Shako drops off Baal. In this case 1 Shako would drop globally, and it would get assigned randomly to one of the 8 players (again assuming eligibility requirements)

This is what people are asking for (with automatically being RNG/binomial probability based). The total drops between personal loot and FFA loot being the same.

D3 calculates (in general) for each character per monster kill; however, this could be calculated globally and then “assigned” afterwards.

@Lykotic-11440

This is a good description of a core issue we’re all likely dealing with in framing the question. My personal assumption has been that PL is synonymous w/ D3’s loot system.

This is not the right way to think about it as described above. Borderlands 3 and PoE have optional loot systems. You can see for yourselves how these game implemented them. For PoE, there is FFA, timed loot, and personal loot where the game creator sets upon game creation.

@Leviathan-1227

Leaving the loot system as is, or gambling on Bliz to personally design an entirely new loot system that fundamentally changes the core of D2?

Except it doesn’t change the core. Plus it would be optional anyway. So if you thought it changed the core, you could choose to play the old way. I would encourage you to change your title, as it appears to me that you do not understand what personal loot is.