Why is personal loot still a thing?

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Did a mythic 0 recently. The DPS were me (a monk), a rogue, and a mage with a druid tank.

For some reason, the rogue in our party was like item level 400. Not sure why he was doing mythic 0s unless he was questing or just farming something, whatever. Keep in mind me and the druid are still in blues and desperately need upgrades so we can start pushing keys.

At the end of the dungeon the rogue gets a massive upgrade that would definitely bump either me or the tank up serveral item levels, but for some twisted reason it goes to the item level 400 giga-chad epic geared rogue instead. Before we could even ask him to give it to one of us, he just leaves the second the dungeon is over.

Why is this a system? Why is it that you can be in questing blues and get nothing but a guy in full raid and mythic 15+ gear gets a drop that he doesn’t even need and will probably just sell?

I’m not even asking for a return to the old system, but anything has to be better than this.

This isn’t a one-off situation either. All the time people are getting loot drops that they DONT EVEN NEED, and one of three things happen: Either they just give it to their buddy and nobody gets a chance to roll on it, they actually tell your group to roll for it, or just leave without saying anything to anyone.

This is [Removed by moderator]. The last system wasn’t perfect but it at least had a ‘greed’ button where if you were an epic geared gigachad, you didn’t siphon off loot from people who needed it unless you were just an [Removed by moderator] for no reason, but this rarely happened.

Tell me this isn’t the best system we can come up with? I see people ALL THE TIME getting drops that they don’t need. Why? Why should a 400 item level raider be getting loot that fresh 70’s desperately need? Someone explain to me why this is the best system we could come up with?

Is this what gearing up has devolved into? Begging strangers for loot? ‘Can I have that item pleeeeease? Pretty please?’ This is how you have to gear up now I suppose.

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Fake news. If the rogue was 400 M0 drops 372 so how can a drop be a massive upgrade for him?.

Personal loot is still better to have then need/greed system Bliz gave us.

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what if the rogue needed it for his transmog?

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also his loot not you’re loot and like canaiana said m0 ilvl dont match
second join a guild

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Sounds like someone’s just mad they can’t hoard all the loot.

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It’s completely random who gets gear. If they put in a system that gave gear to top performers, you still wouldn’t have gotten it, because it would have gone to the rogue anyway.

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i prefer personal loot. it’s actually one of the good recent inventions by Blizzard. Too bad they got cold feet and are backtracking on it.

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So with all your might and wisdom you never sent a whisper? What?

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Because reading comprehension. It’s an upgrade for OP and/or the bear.

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Maybe because it is HIS PERSONAL loot. And seriously, asking him to give it to either of you both?

/smh

Personal > need(no such thing anymore as greed)

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People assume because an item is an ilvl upgrade, it must go to them otherwise the other person is an a-hole for getting RNG drops.

The balls.

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Personal loot is way better. With the need/greed system, I’m just rolling Need on everything and will sort it out at a vendor later if it turned out I didn’t really need it.

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literally this. I’ll roll need on everything I can, greed on anything else.

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And that is exactly how PL works under the hood.

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ngl I’m kinda giggling at the heartfelt post OP took precious time to post, ultimately to be told that he just needs to suck it up because RNG is RNG and no one is entitled to loot

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Okay, i don’t see the problem here. It’s his loot and he gets to do whatever he wants with it. Same with your loot.

So you can avoid rolling the dice or relying on people to allow you to take the gear.

Because RNG.

Well me personally, i much rather justice points make a return.

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screw that, -50 DKP for suggesting justice points

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If only there was some system in place that let you talk to players outside of dungeons.

Maybe one day we’ll get it.

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#ShardLivesMatter

You being less geared doesn’t make his contribution to the group any less than yours.

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They say that, but if that’s how it worked, what possible reason was there to change it? It felt awful having to roll against every single person on LFR, and I just don’t do the content anymore.

Having bad luck with personal loot feels way less bad, than watching someone roll higher than you, and getting the drop.