[SUGGESTION] Modify the function of "Need" option for loot

[Vidu]

How do you plan for what randomly chose gear is gonna drop from whatever instance you do?

Simple: I plan what I want gear for and choose the right job for it. I was refering to other needs than seals - as in: my retainers (I'll choose the job they're on) or desynth (I'll choose a job that gets gear for my crafters to take apart - for example a healer when I want to push my weaver).
You're all about "making it fair" and "giving everyone a fair chance" when you fail to realise that everyone HAS a fair chance since everyone can go into every dungeon at every class and get the need-option for gear for that class.

[Spiroglyph]

this is a troll thread right

[Settiesama]

this is a troll thread right

Unfortunately not, it's an argument from another thread that the OP decided was worth another thread. While some things may seem Troll-like, the detail she went into would have been trolling herself if not completely legit.

[BokoToloko]

The progression in FFXIV is swift and there's always a chance to get the gear so not looting a gear that is an upgrade is not as problematic as in WoW, where there are weekly and daily locks on loot per run meaning that people could lose a week of progression because other just wanted some gold that could be farmed in less than 1 hour (which, curiously enough, is why the Need Before Greed looting system -the one DF uses- was born).

A system like that could be made? Yeah. But it's not really that urgent (though, since I started in WoW, seeing people Needing on stuff for anything but glamour or gearing up, will always kill me a bit inside)

On the other side, and regarding all these complaints about the OP: How is avoiding overgeared people Need on items punishing? If it works for 4 or 8 players in the party, that systems would have you stand an actual chance to obtain gear to desynthetize/GC/whatever for gear that someone else in your party would need otherwise even if overgeared. Literally, you take out the barrier of the Need button when you farm though dungeons. If one run only gives NIN gear, the whole party won't be outright denied their chance to get loot by the only NIN that's there. And since there're more chances that loot that isn't for your Job to appear, it just would be an improvement on a personal side.

[Train88]

Selfish at best.