Multiplayer Loot - Common or seperate?

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andymkay wrote:

First off, this subject has been beaten to death in many topics already. But I will address the concerns in this thread:

I play a ranged based character. I kill so efficiently that FFA loot would be to MY benefit in parties. Timers just annoy me in that my teammates run in and grab "my" drops. There is no benefit whatsoever for me to have "instanced loot".

Your fear of FFA loot is misguided at best. Wait until you get your character working properly and you will see how timers works (by design) to benifit the weaker party members, and the weaker party members is by the way not the ranged characters. On the contrary, ranged damage is one of the absolutely strongest builds.

I think those of you that are concerned over short duration timers or FFA loot haven't really played at the higher level parties, or have yet to have an efficent build/good enough gear to be competitive.

A common gameplay tactic in a high level party is to split up so that each party members attack mobs "solo", yielding lots more drops and exp. With good enough gear you don't need to be on the same screen to kill efficiently, this would even be detrimental since you have to share the spoils.

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andymkay wrote:

First off, this subject has been beaten to death in many topics already. But I will address the concerns in this thread:

I play a ranged based character. I kill so efficiently that FFA loot would be to MY benefit in parties. Timers just annoy me in that my teammates run in and grab "my" drops. There is no benefit whatsoever for me to have "instanced loot".

Your fear of FFA loot is misguided at best. Wait until you get your character working properly and you will see how timers works (by design) to benifit the weaker party members, and the weaker party members is by the way not the ranged characters. On the contrary, ranged damage is one of the absolutely strongest builds.

I think those of you that are concerned over short duration timers or FFA loot haven't really played at the higher level parties, or have yet to have an efficent build/good enough gear to be competitive.

A common gameplay tactic in a high level party is to split up so that each party members attack mobs "solo", yielding lots more drops and exp. With good enough gear you don't need to be on the same screen to kill efficiently, this would even be detrimental since you have to share the spoils.

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andymkay wrote:

There is no benefit whatsoever for me to have "instanced loot".

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andymkay wrote:

Your fear of FFA loot is misguided at best.

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rustypup wrote:

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andymkay wrote:

There is no benefit whatsoever for me to have "instanced loot".

Care to elaborate what this means? Look, you've accepted the timer already. You admit you get cheesed off when someone grabs "your" drop before you. All that happens is you lose the timer and get the loot immediately without having the loot visible to anyone else until you choose to drop it. You've lost absolutely nothing. How is this not to your benefit?

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andymkay wrote:

Your fear of FFA loot is misguided at best.

On the contrary. You're clearly anti-instanced loot while at the same time failing to providing any solid reasoning. Either you're being dishonest or you fear change.

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fiftysixk wrote:

If a boss was only going to drop one rare and then you instance the loot for each player, now he has a chance to drop up to six rares (if you have a full party)instead of one.

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rustypup wrote:

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fiftysixk wrote:

If a boss was only going to drop one rare and then you instance the loot for each player, now he has a chance to drop up to six rares (if you have a full party)instead of one.

Err... no. The loot which is currently being randomly assigned can just as easily be instanced.