Lootmaster: The Greatest Abuse tool.

[Hrist_Althea]

So who is ready to get clears only for the Leader or his friends to get loot priority over you?
Looking forward to your FC implementing a point system so you can spend weeks or months saving up points for a single piece of gear? Your dreams have been answered!

[Shamirah]

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It's not mandatory. It's better to have the option rather than not.

If people steal the loots, you can report them.

[Nghthawk]

I think this will benefit pugging in PF more so than a FC, secondly if you don't like groups that are using this tool then for god sakes DON"T join it.

[Airget]

Exactly, it's not like you can be blindsided by the rule it tells you in a bright color what the rule is so if you don't approve you can easily leave.

[Atoli]

For FCs and statics it's actually a really nice tool because it stops people from accidently looting something they aren't supposed to and stuff like that. The lootmaster system is obviously based on trust, so it works just fine for parties made of people who know each other well.
For pf, I doubt anyone will join lootmaster parties unless the leader is known server-wide for distributing loot in a fair way, so I don't expect it to show up a lot with random parties anyway.

[KitanaiKoneko]

Want to know how to avoid that? Don't join those groups.

[Hrist_Althea]

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It's not mandatory. It's better to have the option rather than not.

If people steal the loots, you can report them.

I very much doubt you will be able to report them since the GM will just say that there is a big message telling you that the group has been set to Lootmaster.

As far as not joining groups that have this setting, you know it will be abused as often times people are so desperate for a clear that they will agree to almost anything.
Its just another tool for exploitation, plain and simple.

[Atoli]

people are so desperate for a clear that they will agree to almost anything.

In that case you go in for the clear, though, not for the loot, right?
Of course, everyone has their own way of doing things, but when I'm the newbie in a party to get the clear while others are farming it, even if I don't fail any mechanics and don't die or anything, on that clear run, I don't loot anyway. Mainly out of respect - I already get the clear out of the run, if I also take the loot, the experienced ones will get nothing for helping me getting the clear

[Twilite]

Looking forward to your FC implementing a point system so you can spend weeks or months saving up points for a single piece of gear? Your dreams have been answered!

This here is the single reason why I never got my RDM relic hat.

[Cyrus-Wallace]

I've got some bad experience in WoW with that. Either the leader helping a friend with certain loot or just making a "fake" group just to help his friend to get said item. On the light side, I would love to have some control over the loot, so I can avoid the group to be ninja looted by someone. Yeah, you can report them, but I'm not sure what's the punishment for that? A pat on the shoulder and telling you "that's bad" or they actually suspend your account/remove the item from your inventory?