Been running Ridorana Lighthouse the whole week and...

[Alleo]

To me it seems slightly self-centered to think simply because the item that dropped matches ones current role / job that it means they should get priority over another..

For me this is not self-centered because not every role in a fight will have the same part to play as another. See the 24 man raid. Out of 24 man 3 are tanks that have a lot of pressure on their shoulders because if they are not good, it gets near impossible to win a fight. The same with the healers. DDs do have their part to play but if you go into this as a DD you have 14 other people that could pick up your bad play and someone that for example only does 1k in the raid will still be carriered through. In my view the healers and tanks do deserve the need role simply because they have a harder job with more responsibility in this.

I had a very bad healer and one medicore one in Shinryu normal. We simply could not beat it. While you can still pull through with 1-2 bad DDs. (If there is not a harsh DPS check) So for me it makes sense that those jobs should be awarded.

Also its not like only them have the need option. In the end everyone will have the chance to get a loot per need when it drops...the only bad thing would be the RNG..(also I do have nothing against tokens. Those would be imo way better than the old or current system)

This picture explains it quite good imo:


With the current all greed role we have the left side situation where its equal (bad) for everyone and some people might get something out of it but its not fair.