If two or more people roll the highest tie roll, the game’s current loot system awards loot based on the alphabetical order of character names. However, in the case of a tie roll, those who rolled a tie should be given a reroll to determine the winner instead of relying on the game’s alphabetical order reward system.
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Definitely time for a name change.
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Not exactly. According to a support article, the actual rolls have decimal places, and the UI just truncates them to Integers.
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Not sure I buy their reasoning about the system not showing a decimal place for the sake of “easy to read UI.”
I’d take one decimal place on rolls over seeing that Naz’suro emote for the Nth time.
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Need more data.
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Yea, they should fix this. With 8 players rolling, there’s about a 4% chance of this actually happening, which it pretty high actually. (And by “this” I mean the two top rolls matching.)
Percentage goes down with fewer rollers. About 2.5% with 5 rollers. Still a lot. How many zillion LFRs run every day?
Odd way of handling loot, if true.
Though the only source i seen saying that was some rando on the internets.
It’s not:
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Citation needed.
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if that was the case, everyone would be named aaron and aardvark.
(honestly, where do people even get these crazy ideas?)
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The UI shouldn’t do this so the players can see the actual results.
Aabner
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Or both.
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What would Blizzard know about this?!
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I beat out a guildie on a tie. Their name started with an N
Screenshot or it didn’t happen.
So it’s a tie, but not a tie. Yeah, that sounds like Blizzard design.
So… someone explain what happened here… I rolled a 98 on the item there was 3 of. Guy ties me for 98. The next guy rolls a 93. guy after rolls 80. they all walk away with the loot item. I do not get anything. this boggles the mind. I have a screenshot off my phone. “couldn’t remember screenshot button.” Im Weezfreeze sorry should have put that in first post ``
Each item has its own roll, regardless how many are duplicates of other items. For the 93 and 80 roll winners, you most have rolled below a 93 and 80, respectively.
For the tied 98, technically the loot system is far more accurate than the integer we see. There aren’t actually ties, there is a decimal portion that will make the true number different. The game just rounds the visible roll to the nearest integer for simplicity. The other person who rolled the 98 had a true roll higher than yours.
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