I got Bloodfang boots in Blackrock before I even saw(saw, actually dropping, not win with dkp) Nightslayer boots from running MC for months.
I think the biggest problem for this system is a perception issue. It does not look to what we are used to and not being able to pass on loots so a friend might win it (people can trade now anyways).
Think of it as this way.
Boss Dies.
Everyone in the LFR rolls a D10. Everyone who rolled a 10 wins some random piece of loot good for their spec. You could in essence have 25 people win on one boss, or 0 people. I think this bothers people and seeing that a boss could drop more than 3-5 items.
Sure I could win a loot roll on Shaz every week in Molten Core, but I might never get those Nightslayer Boots like I did in classic.
This is for the casual raiders to experience the content and a quick way for raiding guilds to supplement gear people might need to raid normals they can not get in heroics. Now you don't have to worry about people being so greedy needing stuff they do not need, to sell, to trade, to disenchant. Once that first people did it everyone started to do it to fight back.
Already 1st of April???
So how do you "win" loot?Is it something like "A roll of 75+ counts as a win" type of thing?
That's not necessarily true. Yes we can upgrade by 8 ilvls, but that doesn't mean that the tiers will farther apart than normal. You can still upgrade the ilvl of the drops from a new raid, so perhaps the raids will be tuned a bit higher than usual to encourage players to improve their gear even when it drops from the same raid.
I like the change to valor EXCEPT for when I'm trying to gear out a new alt for alt raid or because we need a different class for a certain encounter (Like I went hunter instead of my warrior for T12)
I don't know why they can't just use the same system as the holiday events. Item drops, system checks your inventory including bags and bank, if you have the item you can't roll. Simple. In the case of tier pieces it can do a 1/2/3 check and even assign priority. If you have zero, you get it. If you have 1 set piece of that type you lose 20 pts on your roll, 2 set pieces of that type you lose 50 pts, 3 set pieces of that type you can't roll. Class specific.
I dig it, everything expect The Elders thing and Craftsman. I really don't know why Blizz does this. They never update the loot and like others said its only good for 1 tier. So everyone is just gonna be getting Charms to get bonus loot. I feel that is where they screwed up. Everyone will just sit there and farm charms. Yet then again Loot and Rolls dont matter, so whats the point of even writing this? this game has gone so casual its not even funny anymore. whatever
The lack of understanding here makes me weep.
No wonder the top threads in the MoP section are where's my beta.
Wolfie Pandaren Shaman - Pet Collection - Mount Collection
Pinfire Dwarf Hunter - SaintJoan Draenei Paladin - Sadiefalk Human Rogue - Hamartanein Dwarf Warlock
Lotusdream Pandaren Monk - Aponyia Tauren Shaman
I LOVE THE VALOR CHANGES!!!This is it, I will try MoP out!!
Are the loot changes for Raid Finder only?
As for valor, What about those people who are not in a raiding guild? Some of us are not fortunate or do not want to be in a snobbish guild that has a raid first mentality.
As for the beta invites.. Blizzard has opened themselves up for problems. Those of us with the Annual pass are supposed to get automatic invites. However, people without the Annual pass HAVE BEEN invited already. I know several. Annual pass signups should have at least gotten in before non annual pass.
Oh well, hopefully Diablo 3 is good that way there is something else to play.