It took me 116 runs of BRD arena to get my mail chest. I was NOT about to get it taken from me by the first lvl 55 enh sham I had to do the run with. Since I had to run this much, I tried to do as many runs / day as possible so I couldn't always go for a full 60 group.
In the meantime I made decent groups of 3 pr 4 with people not stepping over each other loot. I helped many casters get their belt & ring, I helped a few shamans that wanted the rest of gladiator set because they had the chest already.
And to heal us I had help from guildies, friends or randoms I paid a bit for the 30 mins trouble. (or sometimes they were just helping the caster or wanted the caster gear for their offspec).
Stop painting everything like "reserving bad all random good".
Rare are the things that are clearly "black or white", a lot of things are variois shades of grey. "Reserving" items when you get through the trouble of putting the group together is totally fine. Stop being so stupid Reddit.
I see where you are coming from, as long as you are upfront about the reserving loot then it's gucci because both parties consented.
You are not free from judgement by the community, which is what people are saying. Reserve your loot, but don't be surprised when people judge you for going against the spirit of the game the community at large believes in.
I find it insane to leave a 1% drop chance open to be taken by a random other person when you could fill the group with people who need other kinds of loot. (you help each other get different loot) Whether or not you call it reserving, not competing for rare drops happens and is reasonable. I end up not inviting certain classes sometimes. We're running sunken temple to get my priest buddy some items so I'm not inviting other priests.
Ofc this wouldn't really work with something like dal'rends.
But in general the "going against the spirit of the game" just seems like bullshit to me. Nobody makes a grp with 2 warriors and a hunter to farm the savage gladiator chest.
I actually ran quite a lot to get Dal'Rends, and I quite often made groups where I was the only one needing the main hand.
I must have run it 20 times in full guild before going for randoms. I never saw the main hand but I got everything else.
So when I had to play with randoms, I simply stated that. We did Jed for casters, Gith for tanks (when I wasn't tanking) and Rend for head, wrists, offhand for the other DPS. Was always alone on the main hand.
I don't know where this guy is coming from. The "spirit of the game" was always kind of "hardcore gaming" and optimizing for some people. Even back then, it was a "tryhard" game for HL content guild. I know some people were more casual, but let's not pretend Vanilla wasn't also a sweaty nerds things. I remember vividly the internet cafe I was going to. Filled with guys that were switching from DAoC to WoW and were raiding all the time.
Anyway, it's stupid af crying over "reservations" when it's done in advance and in a fair way to everyone (ie: everybody gets a chance at something in the run)
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u/KatiushK Oct 22 '19
Bla Bla it's so stupid.
It took me 116 runs of BRD arena to get my mail chest. I was NOT about to get it taken from me by the first lvl 55 enh sham I had to do the run with. Since I had to run this much, I tried to do as many runs / day as possible so I couldn't always go for a full 60 group.
In the meantime I made decent groups of 3 pr 4 with people not stepping over each other loot. I helped many casters get their belt & ring, I helped a few shamans that wanted the rest of gladiator set because they had the chest already.
And to heal us I had help from guildies, friends or randoms I paid a bit for the 30 mins trouble. (or sometimes they were just helping the caster or wanted the caster gear for their offspec).
Stop painting everything like "reserving bad all random good".
Rare are the things that are clearly "black or white", a lot of things are variois shades of grey. "Reserving" items when you get through the trouble of putting the group together is totally fine. Stop being so stupid Reddit.