All Greed on Alliance loot

[Mendalas]

Bad players are going to be bad regardless of alt or main. Trying to say runs will get better suddenly because people are on their mains is ignorant. Alt and mains have nothing to do with it.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion I suppose. All I'm saying is that someone who has played a job for longer and has better gear is always gonna be more useful than someone who has barely played a job and has crap gear. That's not ignorance in the slightest. There is always bad players of course, but we are talking about the big picture here. I foresee this as a good change for alliance raids overall.

[Kinazu]

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion I suppose. All I'm saying is that someone who has played a job for longer and has better gear is always gonna be more useful than someone who has barely played a job and has crap gear. That's not ignorance in the slightest. There is always bad players of course, but we are talking about the big picture here. I foresee this as a good change for alliance raids overall.

I personally think that gear isn't what matters but more skill. It's true that people are in general better on their main job, so if they take their main job to the Alliance Raid that'd be improvement, right? I guess so, but... Where do people start to learn their alt Jobs then? Normal trials are argueably too easy to get anything out of, dungeons aren't a good stepping stone either and I highly doubt that people want someone who is still learning a Job in their learning/clear/farm party for an extreme Trial. Normal Raid may also be an option but it is in my honest opinion a bit easier than the Alliance Raid. And I'm fairly certain that you won't get in any Savage/Ultimate parties if you don't know your Job, so that isn't a good learning space either.

In my eyes the Alliance Raids have always been a good stepping stone to both learn and gear up an alt Job. Now that need will be removed, you're not "forced" to play on your alt Job anymore to obtain a gear upgrade. But why play it at all if you don't even want to play with it to gear it up? May as well give it to the person who actually tries to put in some effort in learning that Job and tries to gear it up.

All in all, I think this change will impact the Alliance Raid in a negative way. People who want to gear (and improve on) their alt Jobs will stay away from it which in turn may also decrease the skill level of the playerbase. (If we take it to the extreme that is.) And as a lot of people have said, it'll be a pain to farm for glamour as well so why bother? In the end it may turn people away from the Alliance Raid.

In all honesty I'm glad to some people like the Greed-only change, but I think that more people dislike it.

[Enlial]

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion I suppose. All I'm saying is that someone who has played a job for longer and has better gear is always gonna be more useful than someone who has barely played a job and has crap gear. That's not ignorance in the slightest. There is always bad players of course, but we are talking about the big picture here. I foresee this as a good change for alliance raids overall.

I seriously doubt it will matter. There hasnt been a 24 man to date that comes remotely close to justifying a need to play one's optimal job. That and theres such a huge divide between players who carry their own weight and those who dont. Do you really think that sch who thinks that dps "isnt his/her job" would be pulling 7k+ if they had queued on ninja? Probably not.

Plus having everyone in their best gear just means that it'll turn into another snoozefest of bypass-the-mechanics-with-dps all the more quickly

I've always thought the disparity in competition for loot was a little unfair. Queue as a healer and you know you're going to most likely have someone fighting you for the gear you want. And it sucked feeling tempted to drop when you'd get matched multiple dps who'd be able to need on the gear you wanted (remember the all bard parties in world of darkness because everyone wanted that crit/det body? lol). Tanks on the otherhand had guaranteed win-on-need (except in LotA before even that got changed).

I dont like the solution of having to fight potentially 7 other people for the drops you want though. And you know its going to be a ... poop-show... towards the end of the week when you get people who roll on whatever just to get loot and be done (15 runs for the tank body, lost it to the drg with no tank leveled because he just wanted something).

The worst thing thats going to happen is people will start asking for "loot-pacts" much more frequently. Never ceases to amaze me how entitled a LOT of people are. Not to mention, a lot of players dont seem to get that theres no nice way to ask "hey are you going to roll on this piece of gear"? It sounds like a damn threat. Like, "yeah I am? now what? I get to listen to you tell me how you deserve it more than me the entire run? You'll drop and its my fault we're sitting around waiting for a rep? You'll get your two buddies to vote kick me?" I have no intention of indulging anyones demands to "state the loot you want". But yeah, the whole idea is just an absolute recipe for salt and drama.

[Aeeninwen_Taldel]

Honestly, if there's an option to roll for it, then it's free for all. It's annoying, yes, but life isn't fair.

[LineageRazor]

While I'm not pleased with the Greed-only change, even if you buy into their logic as to why it was done, it really only applies to the most recent raid. Folks outgear older raids to the point where they are easy as pie; if a wipe happens, it won't be because players were playing on a sub-optimal job or wearing sub-optimal gear, but because they blew a critical mechanic (like failing to put up the shield in the Phelgeston fight), in which case it would have made no difference if they were on their main job or not.

The greed-only thing should NEVER have been applied to older raids, and it should be removed from current raids once they are no longer current. Obtaining desired pieces of gear for glamour (really, the only reason to bother with older raids) is now nigh-impossible, since you'll be casting lots against people who want to exchange the gear for Grand Company points. With the current raid and its one-piece-per-week limit, there's a good reason not to lot willy-nilly on every piece of gear. With older raids, there's no such incentive.

[Hiply]

Need before Greed. This change isn't a good one. Having to roll against people who are greeding everything without even looking at it - because that's the reality - for job-specific gear in the job I'm running at the moment is ridiculous and some of the salt that will be flung around will no doubt be mine when I lose out on a piece of gear I need to someone who randomly spammed greed.

[Saikoh]

I don't think this is a good change. If anything I think it will discourage people from going as tank or healer and lead to longer queue times. Also, I would often greed things even for my main job if it wasn't actually better than my current gear since I wouldn't want to need something just to turn it in for a few hundred gc seals that someone would actually wear or glamour. This doesn't allow for that distinction.

[Mendalas]

Having to roll against people who are greeding everything without even looking at it

It's still 1 drop per week in the new raid. People aren't gonna greed for everything. They are still gonna hold out for their drop.

[Vickii]

Honestly I don’t mean to be nasty but I play WAR, SUM, SCH and DRG so I’m going to roll on pretty much everything.

As far as class exclusive weapons or gear goes I may roll on that too if it looks good as I could use it in future.

This way I think, yeah it’s perhaps less likely I get the thing I want, but I’ll probably get something for one of my classes at least.

It’s the system, you need to blame that, not the players who roll on things they are allowed to roll on.

[Vickii]

Honestly I don’t mean to be nasty but I play PLD, SUM, SCH and DRG so I’m going to roll on pretty much everything that looks good or is an upgrade in older content.

As far as class exclusive weapons or gear goes I may roll on that too if it looks good as I could use it in future.

This way I think, yeah it’s perhaps less likely I get the thing I want, but I’ll probably get something for one of my classes at least.

It’s the system, you need to blame that, not the players who roll on things they are allowed to roll on.