Quote Originally Posted by Codek View Post
It's just another means of a compromise between tokens and RNG. I tend to side WoW's loot system with the token system because it forces groups to prioritze who gets the tokens first. This creates issues within guilds playing favoritism with certain members and also leads to all kinds of crazy DKP point ideas that drive people insane. At the same time, the small RNG that is still in play for WoW can create a certain desperation for tokens if they don't drop consistently.

I guess the token could break down into two categories (giving three total):
-Token (currency) - Creates the grind atmosphere
- Token (Trade in's) - Creates the priority atmosphere (sucks going into a dungeon knowing you have no chance at loot)
- RNG - Religion atmosphere (Lady luck is not merciful)
That all depends on who you go with. Even in that case, at least your group will (most likely) prioritize people who haven't gotten any items recently. In my coil group this week only one item dropped that a main actually needed, which was an Allagan Blade. Even the offspec items that dropped had to be freelotted because the people that had their offspecs set to those jobs already had the items that dropped. It's not like we're all decked out in all of our Allagan pieces either, I still need 4 pieces where as our DRG went 2 months without seeing one dragoon piece drop.