All Greed on Alliance loot

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Can't wait to have to do it ten times as a healer and let people die because I'm not great (and not being able to change role) to even see what I want drop, and then lose it to my co-healer anyway.

... I can't see why people would be happy with that. Instead of trying to make another system adapted to the 24-raids, they are defaulting to the old flawed one just to provide people with the "Need" button. That's super lazy. There was tons of ideas on how to make a proper loot system for both old uncapped raids, and the newest one with the weekly lockout. But no. It'd have been too much work, I guess.

Because we know an entirely new system will take time to implement, which likely will not come for a while. I much prefer a simple revert until they can dedicate time into something else. You may complain about being a bad healer, however there is an option to remedy this. Improve how you play, thus you won't be a liability to the raid. If you aren't willing to improve why even bother gearing your healers?

The whole idea of smoother runs on your main just doesn't fly. As Billy mentioned, a White Mage spamming Medica II and contributing no DPS isn't a good healer nor will the run be smoother despite that being their main. Furthermore, it ignores the fact many people like bouncing roles. In the circles I run, we all constantly swap between different jobs to keep things fun, especially those of us who raid. I predominantly play Dragoon in Savage. I don't want to play it in Ridorana when I can practice Ninja or my tanks.

[Stormfur]

Hello, Producer and Director Yoshi-P here. Patch 4.3 brought major changes to the Need/Greed system in alliance raids, and we received a lot of feedback from players around the world. After careful consideration, we have decided to revert those changes and bring back the Need option. This will take effect from the next hotfix and includes all alliance raids.

We hope you continue to give us your feedback on your experiences in the world of FINAL FANTASY XIV!

Thank you Mr. Producer and Director! We always appreciate it when our comments and suggestions (however passionate they may be) are heard and acknowledged.

(Now please answer my question in Letter from the Producer at E3 and I will be the happiest Miqo'te on Hydaelyn)

[Minas-tepes]

I'm happy for the old raid cause it was impossible to get a piece of gear you want. However for the new one it was cool to get tank piece, playing with another dps job

[Anarnee]

Can't wait to have to do it ten times as a healer and let people die because I'm not great (and not being able to change role) to even see what I want drop, and then lose it to my co-healer anyway.
Clearly the best loot system.

... I can't see why people would be happy with that. Instead of trying to make another system adapted to the 24-raids, they are defaulting to the old flawed one just to provide people with the "Need" button. That's super lazy. There was tons of ideas on how to make a proper loot system for both old uncapped raids, and the newest one with the weekly lockout. But no. It'd have been too much work, I guess.

I mean, if you're bad you're bad, no amount of gear will change that, and if you're bad you don't deserve it as much at the cohealer making up for you being bad.

Stop veiling this as a problem with the loot system when the problem is you. The system isn't perfect, but it's better than this Greed nonsense.

I've had plenty of chances to roll on healer gear when running as a DPS or tank, and now if I REALLY want something I can suck it up and do my job as a healer and earn the right to roll on something with less competition.

I think its great that you folks are reverting the loot rules somewhat on the quicker side, but honestly, this whole thing could have been avoided if feedback was asked for before deciding to make the change, because the outcry began as early as when we learned of it from the Live Letter- but the change happened anyway. Ever since 4.3 went live, there predictably has been overwhelming negative feedback.

THIS SO MUCH. Thank you for listening to us, but no one was happy about the change before, and a lot of annoyance with this patch could have been avoided had you not changed it in the first place.

[Ariane]

... I can't see why people would be happy with that. Instead of trying to make another system adapted to the 24-raids, they are defaulting to the old flawed one just to provide people with the "Need" button. That's super lazy. There was tons of ideas on how to make a proper loot system for both old uncapped raids, and the newest one with the weekly lockout. But no. It'd have been too much work, I guess.

I think they only did this "greedy only" in the first place because they were trying to avoid doing the work it would take to do personal loot or tokens. Now they either have to face it that they have to put effort into it, or they just continue to be "super lazy" and do nothing.

[AxlStream]

It took em about 2 to 3 weeks to realise it was awful? Interesting.

[Alleo]

The opposite is true. On older raids it doesn't matter at all. People run what they're good at and get their glamour gear.

It does matter because in older raids you have no weekly limit and you can still have people that are running it to catch up. Thus they would have had the same problem in older runs too. And for glamour this greed chance was even worse. If you wanted to get glamour for a job you could at least go into this as the job that needed the glamour and thus raised the chances to get it (since it still needed to drop). So this was even worse for glamour because there was no limit and people could use it for quite other things too like turning them in.

[Saifo11]

Thank you, your always listening to your customers and always taking the right action. A true leader o7.

[Altera]

I do kinda get why they made it Greed Only, and I can only think it was to make players feel less forced to play a specific Job to get gear, but yeah it was not the fix that was needed
Trial and Error can be a B-atch XD

[Besame]

Town criers win out...