Originally Posted by
Jujudrood
If this hypothetical ML removal does happen, they also need to remove the "upgrade" caveat from gear drops so each item can still be freely traded if you so choose (if that's still a thing, anyway... I honestly can't remember).
Do that and it's fine, you just need a raid team who aren't complete shitheads and are willing to trade to help the group as a whole as opposed to hoard all the drops themselves.
The whole ML/roll thing is basically the same thing as the 20% chance of PL.
You must roll 81, essentially, to get a piece of loot (roll 1-100, 81-100 is 20%... maths).
If PL, on average, awards more items, but those items are tailored to the loot spec of the player, you will end up with roughly the same amount of "usable" gear anyway, if not more.
Especially those weird cases where you don't have a mail wearer, for example, and 2 pairs of mail boots drop from a boss because of ML and the whole table is up for grabs...