Earlier this week, I was the Master Looter for the world boss Kazzak.
During Boss kill, I was attempting to Master Loot all bundles to a paladin named Waumbek . However, even though thoroughly making sure that the item was looted to said person, (and i even clicked on his name) , an item from the bundle “The eye of shadow” was somehow looted to a shadow priest named Dumbledore instead.
Blizzard, this is not the first time there has been a loot bug on Classic Era, Considering loot is an important aspect in all versions of WoW, especially in Vanilla, where most of character power is tied to loot, a hard failure of loot system in game and how it is supposed to function is considered a catastrophic failure of game function in world of warcraft.
This time around, it was an item from a bundle that would not likely have held huge significance.
Things would have been different if it were a highly contested item like Crystal Adorned Helm or Hibernation Crystal.
If the Master Looter looted the wrong item to the wrong person not due to his error, and owing it 100% to the catastrophic failure of World of Warcraft’s loot system, this can very well lead to an all server war involving multiple guilds and blood feud that can span for years. And I should know because I already have first hand experience of said blood feud with a malicious druid doppleganger and the amount of people and guilds affected in the process in PVE and PVP (and this was over a slew of words) - imagine if it had been over high key loot like this.
To the World of Warcraft Developers, if you are seeing this, please fix a key component of your game so the game can function as it is supposed to.
It is no fun when someone wins the roll over a highly contested item (Hibernation Crystal) only to have it handed to another person the master looter never intended due to a catastrophic failure on Blizzard’s end. The fact that customer support refuses to intervene despite having the necessary evidence leaves an extremely poor taste as well - why would you not want to empower your customer service to do the right thing and restore rightful loot in the case of a catastrophic game engine failure? Blizzard and Customer Support would have done loot restoration for situations like this back in 2005.
Please fix all Classic Era game breaking bugs!