Why make Priority weapons when the system already does a lot?

Seriously when doing skirmish and other things, how come people always wanna do priority based things? when the system already lots who gets what? its like you win so than the system does a lot, highest person win he gets the weapon. Ok now he got the weapon, now everyone lot again. A different person gets the highest lot now you pass the weapon to him? Plus there are way to many ppl out there that ninja stuff. I had to go through 28 skirmish's to finally get my WHM cane to drop and this is all we do is priority because thats what everyone does. Out of the first 27 skirmishes i got about 16 of those drops somehow but i politely passed to the ppl that called the weapon, i could of easily used the weapon on my other job, but i didnt call it the other guy did so i passed it to him. Than on the 28th run my cane finally droped and i was the only one that wanted it, but the BLM got it so i asked him to kindly pass it and he switches to his WHM and goes "But I have a WHM to I can use it" takes it and jsut warps out. So kind of a rant thread but still the point stands. Why do ppl wana risk stupid ninja idiots and losing your loot on priority when the system already lots and randomizes it for us?

It was your choice to keep your drops or hand them out like Santa. Nobody is setting these rules and if they don't like you keeping your loot, then you can find another group. The content is easy enough to do it with a pick-up party, and it has massive playability since people want to multi-meld and can only get one at a time, so there will always be people doing Skirmish.

It's why I despise pugs for this type of content. Just don't do pugs....or at least pugs that set arbitrary rules such as this.

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Originally Posted by Black_Wing

It's why I despise pugs for this type of content. Just don't do pugs....or at least pugs that set arbitrary rules such as this.

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Pugs? Unless you mean Pugilist, or that fish mob from FFXI, I don't understand what you mean by that.

Loot system is definitely rigged. It tends to drop to the same person more often than it should, your own words kind of prove that. However, the loot system in general is stupid.

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Originally Posted by Nuru

It was your choice to keep your drops or hand them out like Santa. Nobody is setting these rules and if they don't like you keeping your loot, then you can find another group. The content is easy enough to do it with a pick-up party, and it has massive playability since people want to multi-meld and can only get one at a time, so there will always be people doing Skirmish.

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I dont like being a douche though. I know that my fault im sorry. I guess having this happens builds up my black list though so i dont have to deal with creeps like this anymore. I know ppl like you wont understand this but they way you play a video game really shows how you act in real life. if your a giant dick like this in a game chances are your a giant dick in real life and wont have any friends. so good luck with that.

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Originally Posted by Nuru

Pugs? Unless you mean Pugilist, or that fish mob from FFXI, I don't understand what you mean by that.

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PUG = Pick Up Group
PGL = Pugilist (It's not abbreviated as PUG thats just what ppl use cause they can remember it easier.)

What does priority here means? certain person gets before others or you pick which weapon you wants before a run?

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Originally Posted by Chardrizard

What does priority here means? certain person gets before others or you pick which weapon you wants before a run?

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Before you do the run everyone in the party says what weapon they want so if that weapon drops it doesn't matter who it drops to they pass it to the person that called that weapon.

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Originally Posted by Norack

I dont like being a douche though. I know that my fault im sorry. I guess having this happens builds up my black list though so i dont have to deal with creeps like this anymore. I know ppl like you wont understand this but they way you play a video game really shows how you act in real life. if your a giant dick like this in a game chances are your a giant dick in real life and wont have any friends. so good luck with that.

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To be honest, it isn't dickery at all. You are subjecting the already-established looting and are questioning why people loot on it again after that.

The way my LS does it, or any pick-up group for that matter, is that before we go in, we decide on who gets what drop. if 3 people want an axe, and the axe drops, then those 3 people roll for it. Whoever wins gets the axe, rinse and repeat. That way, everyone only picks one item and if that item drops, its easier and more efficient for them to get what they want instead of some douchebag claiming all items. You don't need to hand them out like Santa Claus, but for god sakes, don't complain here if your item dropped and you decided to give it away to someone else. You should have kept it for yourself and then if the item dropped again, someone else would get it.