Loot Lockout

[Dualgunner]

I think it's more of a defense for people who dc. Had a fright where healer dced after our 11s clear and during the loot distribution it took him ~200 seconds to reconnect (300s countdown timer used as a stopwatch). If it was 30s or even 150s he'd have lost out on his twine for no reason beyond network lag.

I suppose it doesn't need to be 300s. But at that moment I'm glad it was.

[CaptainLagbeard]

It IS annoying to sit there and wait, but yea, a DC could mean losing out on loot if it was too short...

Usually when I see someone being an asshat with rolls, I either alt-tab and do something for the 5 minutes or if there's something I need to do go do that instead, those people just waste their own time by doing it.

[LauraAdalena]

I disagree severely with the 300 second loot, but at the same time I don't see any of the reasons here against it as solid enough for a removal or reduction of it. It's not that I don't think it should be changed, but I just don't see a real reason that will argue hard enough for it to be changed when we don't have solid enough arguments when plenty of people came up with good reason. IE:

I think it's more of a defense for people who dc. Had a fright where healer dced after our 11s clear and during the loot distribution it took him ~200 seconds to reconnect (300s countdown timer used as a stopwatch). If it was 30s or even 150s he'd have lost out on his twine for no reason beyond network lag.

I suppose it doesn't need to be 300s. But at that moment I'm glad it was.

I just can't think of an argument strong enough to say that this loot doesn't help people when we have examples like that that help the argument for 300 seconds.

[Fhaerron]

No thanks. People need a chance to view their cutscenes if they want and to check to see if the item is a reasonable upgrade for them. There are also greedy people that will be happy to dash around opening up chests in side rooms while everyone else is in combat just to screw those people out of a chance at what's inside.

I'll stick with "too bad for you, learn how to wait patiently". If you want the loot that badly, it should be worth sticking around those couple of extra minutes.

30 seconds is long enough.
You can press need on items if people dash around and open chests while in combat, I do this all the time while tanking big groups and it doesn't interrupt my rotation at all (the GCD is 2,5 seconds, more then enough to press need on items and for multiple items you can press need in between you press your keybinds in your rotation).
Cutscenes are no excuse, MSQ roulette has no loot and SE can change so that scenes play when you exit the roulette.

I think it's more of a defense for people who dc. Had a fright where healer dced after our 11s clear and during the loot distribution it took him ~200 seconds to reconnect (300s countdown timer used as a stopwatch). If it was 30s or even 150s he'd have lost out on his twine for no reason beyond network lag.

I suppose it doesn't need to be 300s. But at that moment I'm glad it was.

This doesn't work for me, I have on many occasions had DC's when the final boss died, I log back in in less then 15 seconds and there is no loot window or anything, whenever I DC I loose my right to loot. This was a real issue for me in the past but now I use a VPN so I don't DC anymore.

[SendohJin]

This doesn't work for me, I have on many occasions had DC's when the final boss died, I log back in in less then 15 seconds and there is no loot window or anything, whenever I DC I loose my right to loot. This was a real issue for me in the past but now I use a VPN so I don't DC anymore.

if everyone has rolled already yes, but if one person hasn't, you should still see it. that's how it is for me usually.