Master loot

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I delved into this topic slightly in another thread:

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Loot Scarcity

People love to get gear. It’s a huge motivator, however rates of loot went down this expansion. With fewer items in the pool you want to have some element of control, Master Looter used to provide this for organized groups so now addons are used to replicate this.

The most sought after items however are caught on loot tables which are shared with a lot of superfluous loot, and this tier these are Weapons.

In Nathria Weapon Tokens were introduced which was a huge improvement from BfA, but then they were removed going into Sanctum? The weapons didn’t need to have 4 tints as they did for Nathria and could have easily been provided by Bonesmith in Korthia.

Imagine playing a rogue this tier, the only person who can trade daggers to you are other rogues and they kinda want it too. Instead, you watch the raid loot 3 rings and a chest piece for the 8th week in a row. It’s pretty demoralising.

Deterministic tokens dropping from bosses were good and should be used more.

There was also the removal of bonus rolls but the addition of the great vault. This gave people an element of control with the amount of choices they have for loot, but the deterministic element that bonus rolls provided is not there. Would be absolutely fantastic if you could toggle what your first slot was going to provide. A simple drop-down menu to say “I want loot from X boss/dungeon”?

Something to also consider, with forced personal loot it means that shared item slots have a higher frequency of being found and unique with a lower (even with armor stacking).

This expansion will be the first one where all slots are available.

In BfA you had a locked cloak + neck, so only rings were shared.
In Shadowlands there are no locked slots.

This mean that everyone can loot rings, clocks, necks and because everyone can get them they statistically have a higher chance of popping up. You can’t do anything with them as well as after a few weeks into a tier you really want a piece of loot from a boss and watch the raid loot 4 rings (for what could be multiple weeks in a row).

The amount of loot waste has increased this expansion, this in combination with the total amounts of loot being reduced from all sources is not a good recipe.

Master Looter didn’t have this particular issue, but it did have the issue of getting loot that nobody could use (example: looting bows but having no hunters).