Quote Originally Posted by Sequora View Post
If lets say a player in your group had a specific drop, the next time you did that raid, the game would detect that one player currently has that drop. This would slightly lower the chance for this item to drop again. The drop rate would decrease by maybe 1-2% and would be distributed between the other drops in the chest. The more players with a particular drop would further decrease the drop rate of this item.
Unfortunately, this only favors the first players to get the drop. The more people in your group have the item, the more a hard time you'll have to get yours. This would be a huge problem!

Elitist that can clear content faster would get their gear faster clearing more content faster and their faster, etc.
Casual players that are slow to clear content would have to play more to get their gear slowing them even more, reducing their chances for drop in the next content considerably more since they would be even more behind their peers, etc.

Honestly, only if everyone can't GREED on the loot should it have its chances reduced to zero. And that would be a pretty rare happening!
(People can turn duplicates for company seals by putting their first piece on their retainer, like I do.)

What you want is a wishlist.
In the duty finder, for each dungeon, you would have a list of possible drops and check the ones you want to drop more. That drop list would be empty at first and populate as your encounter the loot for the first time.

Thus it would be a double-edged feature. The more items you check on the wishlist, the lesser your chances to see newer items drop.
(As long as everyone has the same items ticked, only those items would see their drop rate increased so as to prevent hindering other players looking for new loot.)

Unfortunately, having everyone wanting the same stuff would be pretty rare and limited to general items.
Why would you check tank gear when playing another class? If everyone has the tank gear checked, you already know the tank's gonna get it since he checked it and can NEED on it.

The only wishlist that would work is this: you check the items you want and at the beginning of the dungeon, a general wishlist appears with everyone's desired items.
That way, you can pass when you know someone else wants and item.
That is, if you want to be kind. But then again, you can already pass on items if you think someone would want it... - you can even ask if anyone wants it.

So, yeah. We're still better off with RNG loot and just mention in party chat your wishlist at the beginning of the dungeon.