Originally Posted by
Raelbo
Irrelevant. Whether you choose to equip the item or sell it on the market, your nett benefit is equal because you're either saving that fat pile of gold (as opposed to spending it on the AH) or you're earning the fat pile of gold from selling it.
For a tank equipping the item, it's exactly the same as taking the item, selling it on the AH and then using the gold to buy it. Extending this logic to other members of the party, they could take the BoE, sell it on the AH, and use the gold to buy a BoE for their class/spec.
Sorry, but you've not presented any argument supporting your notion that the class that can actually equip the BoE is going to benefit more than anyone else,most likely because any such argument would be fundamentally flawed on the basis that BoEs are fungible. Unlike a BoP, a BoE is a token that can be exchanged for something of high value for whoever wins the item.
Look, I totally get where you're coming from. But you're just not seeing the bigger picture here. As I already said, BoE's were specifically designed to work differently for BoP's for a reason. The fact that a portion of the playerbase aren't able to see that doesn't change this.
While I completely respect every person's right to play the game the way they want to (meaning you're more than welcome to pass on rolling for BoE's intended to be used by another class) there is an objective measure of what is fair, reasonable and rational. And expecting everyone else to pass on that "fat pile of gold" just because you can actually use it is neither fair, reasonable nor rational. It's self-serving and narrow-minded. If you want to use that BoE badly enough, then fork out your gold and go buy it on the AH. Because that's essentially what you're expecting the other members of your party to give up if they're going to give you the item.
PS: What I am saying applies strictly to Pugs. For a group of friends/guildies, it makes far more sense to decide collectively on how to deal with BoEs such that it yields maximum benefit to the group: whether that means selling it and using the gold on other stuff, or giving it to a character that will benefit directly.