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ya theres a difference,the one that drop's this is male,all the rest will be female.


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Edited, Apr 21st 2012 11:08am by faox

Well, I agree that if there is someone in the looting party that could use it as an upgrade, that is all good and well and they should be the only ones rolling on it in that case in most situations.

But there are also many times when it is totally appropriate for a caster to roll on melee gear and vice versa. When no one in the party can actually see the drop as an upgrade then everyone is rolling to twink an alt. My main is a mage but my primary alt is an SK and I'm always looking out for stuff for him.

Or take the situation I have been in way too many times where you are in a pickup group and it just so happens that there's a ninja looting *******(s) in that group. As a caster, you're medding most of the time and if the melees don't give you a chance to loot, then you are just SOL. Sooo, when something comes up nice enough that the concensus is that it needs to be rolled on, you bet I'm rolling on it no matter what it is. Everyone else should too in that kind of situation.

Pardon this ranting example, <rant> but I was in a great group on the Top Shelf in Velk's. All was good except for this ranger who was the ninja looting-est jackass I have ever seen. He wouldn't let anyone really get a chance to loot, not even other melees, the casters didn't stand a chance anyway. I normally just leave groups like that but in this case the Top Shelf is hard to get and that's where several good items drop and the xp was good so I put up with it. In the 2 hours I was grouped with him he probably looted easily 2k worth of velium whilst the rest of us got basically squat because regular spiders in Velk's don't drop much else except crystalline silk. He looted so much velium that he had to zone out to offload it all on alts 3 times in 2 hours!!! You bet I rolled on the Silver Chitin Hand Wraps and the Crystal Spider Eyes when they dropped.
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Back to the point, especially for those of us in smaller guilds that can't assemble large forces and therefore rarely can survive in zones where we would get drops that we could actually use at our level (due to the way the high end game is structured nowadays) since we have bought better than what we could get adventuring in the bazaar just to stay alive and competitive.

But this seems to be changing with LoY thank gods. Our small guild parties have come across many nice items that actually have been upgrades to our current equipment. Even when soloing in these new zones my mage has picked up some pretty decent stuff on his own. How refreshing. Can I get an AMEN?



Edited, Mon Mar 17 13:40:13 2003