Out of all the changes made to this game in it’s retail state over the years, this is one of the good changes. I might not like the fact that twinks are separated ques between exp on and off, for example. Or the fact that the cataclysm revamp replaced the old vanilla 1-60 dungeons and questing overworld that i and many others were so used to leveling up through, and even with shadowlands, we can’t lvl as advertised. We can level anywhere we want from 1-50 chromie time, except for the oldschool vanilla overworld and quests. I did not like that ammo and stat sticks were taken out.
With a change like this, at least we don’t have to worry about being nanja looted and tricked out of receiving loot. In my perspective, there should be a week, raid lock out long application on any loot that drops that allows it to be traded between other party members who were there for the kills, to help with progression purposes and gearing up and junk. Master looter and need before greed is confusing as all heck, and just opens the game up for corruption. The new system i feel is good on this.
The “community” never had any ability to “self-regulate” itself. You’re talking about guilds that routinely denied any and all gear to newer members for whom it would have been a big upgrade and instead gave it to “friends and family” for whom it was a tiny upgrade or only a sidegrade.
You must have poor choice in guilds. My classic guild had veteran members pass on loot for weeks in order to help out newer members get better gear in order to prepare for naxx. Is that selfish?
Its funny how everyone complaining about it are the ones that lost out on gear (that ONE time) due to bad guilds… Taking away master loot only punished the good guilds.
Master loot is gone because of RNG and the virtual slot machine this game has become, not because people were cheated out of a piece of gear in a raid. Blizz should bring it back so good guilds can be more efficient through better progression… But that’s the point right? Progress slowly?
even though no one admits it, or can’t prove it, we all know that if you are very friendly and kiss the GMs butt, are friends with, etc. You are typically only given scraps and only get gear until after they get at least one piece first or they reject it.
I for one love personal loot as my odds at getting gear are better and with it binding on pickup if it’s lower than a current item, I’m not forced to trade it to someone else, which is good for if you’re the type who like to have options and multiples of certain slots you already have for various builds (i.e. set for M+, set for raid, set for pvp, etc)
Yeah, it would be nice if my Hunter didn’t have a 194ilvl haste ring sitting my my bags at a time when I need gear the most and drop rates are awful.
When you set your loot specialization it should optimize secondary stats. Another lame part is I’ll never equip it, it could have gone to someone else in the group who could have benefited from it.
