Hello everyone! I’ve counted the votes and the card you wanted me to talk about most
is “mind if I roll need?!” the loot hoarder.
Baine of anyone trying to obtain a certain piece of gear, let’s begin shall we?!
The loat hoarder places need above all else, inspired by those we call ninja looters, a
term not often used since the looting system has been severely changed since the early
days of WoW. In patch 1.7.0 they improved the loot options by adding 3 buttons to the
roll window, a need button in case you needed something, a greed button incase you didn’t
need it and would like to roll for it if nobody else needed it and a pass option incase you
wanted to pass on the loot all together. I also remember that at some point they added
the disenchant button incase you had an enchanter in the group, you’d hit that button and
the item would be disenchanted for you and you could sell the shard or dust on the auction
house. Before the introduction of that simple button, you’d just pass on the loot to your enchanter in the group
and you would type /roll to decide who could get the dust or the shard, unless of course you were partying with
a loot hoarder who decided that they should get all the disenchanting materials because
without them in the the party, you wouldn’t get any materials to begin with! That’s another thing that
came with this loot system, who was allowed to roll on what item and what was considerd to
be a need or greed situation? I can’t tell you how many runs i’ve had and I'm sure most of you outthere had them aswel, where someone
constantly needed on the items up to the point where people would ask “why are you needing
on everyting?” and then the response came, I need this to level up my profession or I need
this to vendor it for gold. Or my offspec needs this or what ever reason they came up with. They were not wrong,
but in the end, everybody could use it for gold or for professions or for alternate specs. So the lines there were not all that clear. You would soon
learn to play by the rules of the party or nobody would play with you, especially in the early days without the whole dungeon finder tool.
If you were marked as a loot hoarder, a ninja looter, everybody knew to avoid you and you would no longer be able to party up.
Sometimes though, sometimes it wasn’t that clear, sometimes the line between need or greed was a little bit vague. I remember when a druid
friend of mine, she looted an item that a rogue really wanted because she wanted to go dps
on her kittyform, but back then, and I'm talking about the classic days here, The kitty form was not supposed to dps,
Druids were only supposed to heal and the rogue was not happy about this. He felt like he should have dibs on the gear
and after this moment, he hounded her for weeks.
He tried to turn the server against her, he was whispering her constantly...it was nuts. A similar thing was
when a hunter friend of mine came to me with the complaint that everyone was mad at him
for looting a melee weapon in ubrs because he thought in his mind, that he wanted to be a melee hunter and you know...he
did have the abilities for it so why were people mad. Everything’s a hunter weapons right?
Those were some interesting times to be sure, however, to bring this story back to the loot hoarder, sometimes it wasn’t
so innocent. Sometimes it wasn’t because the players didn’t understand the finer things
in the system, sometimes they did it on purpose. This could be in a dungeon where they felt like looting
stuff just because they could. Or that moment where a random bind on equip epic would drop and
you could just feel the atmosphere of the group go icy cold. Who is going
to push that need button, is this group to going to end itself because of this random epic? And
then of course there were also the raid situations where the raidgroup thought that they could trust their raid members
so they didn't turn on master looter and this resulted in a whole bunch of youtube
videos with people showing off their ninja looting skills and responses from people like
'Ow my god...WHAT THE FUCK!. *GASP* I'm going to kill myself right now...see ya! '
These days the loot hoarder has become more and more rare not only because most loot is now set
to personal so you don’t even have to roll anymore, but the need/greed system has improved
over the years and gear has also become a lot easier to obtain and many raid groups are perfectly fine with
the master looting system. One final fun bit that I could say about this card, is that with whispers of
the old gods, we can see what happens to the loot hoarder in a world where the old gods
broke free and rule the world. “Mine...ALL MINE...'
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