The truth about the New Raid loot system

[Grond]

I am confused now... And actually I don't care anymore and it doesn't matter because the devs never pay attention to us anyway.

You're right, they just changed the raid loot system so that you can actually get more than two items on a whim. They never listen to their players...

[Conejo]

Also changed it so you can get none... (Although you sometimes get none with the current setup anyways but now you might get none more often)

i got enough none already, maybe i can trade all my none in for something useful.

either way, now i know exactly what chance i have of getting a piece of raid loot, regardless of the size of the party. i'll take a 16% chance, which has better than my 1% (slightly exaggerated. 1 piece of raid loot ever, over 100 raids) chance this past year and a half.

[Gimpster]

but since everyone has the same re-raid timers, those extra few hours don't matter as much.

Sure they matter. We do other things in the game besides raid and wait for raid timers to end.

Any hour spent trying to fill up a raid to 12 people is an hour that wasn't played on some other (non-timer) quest.

[JelloMold]

It penalizes excellence and rewards mediocrity. This is class warfare pure and simple. If I work hard and make more money than someone who had 15 kids and was a high school drop-out should I be penalized so that they "feel" better about themselves?

No. If we're good enough to do it short-handed, then golly gee I SHOULD be able to have a higher rate of pulling stuff.

You talk about not being in the "chosen elite" are you freaking kidding me? If you're not good enough to be there, then you won't be. This DOES penalize exclusion. On a Dragon raid, we do it 4 man style. I'm **** pround that we are able to, and by all rights our 50% chance of getting raid loot is EARNED by us. This is a flailing attempt to make every one feel "good" about having a better chance...I raise the BS flag. If you need 12 folks to do it, then great you get a 1 in 6 chance of pulling something. If you CAN do it solo, them by golly you SHOULD get them both. Changing the game in midstride isn't good, I don't like it. I'm not leaving (yet). I am a DnD fan not an MMO fan so hopefully they'll have a DDO Faerun sooner rather than later I can bail to.

PLEASE tell me that you are roleplaying. Does anyone really get this upset about a game. Dude, I bow to your uberness.

[Conejo]

Sure they matter. We do other things in the game besides raid and wait for raid timers to end.

Any hour spent trying to fill up a raid to 12 people is an hour that wasn't played on some other (non-timer) quest.

and by "other (non-timer) quest" you mean PoP?

[rnor6084]

PLEASE tell me that you are roleplaying. Does anyone really get this upset about a game. Dude, I bow to your uberness.

Yes, they do get upset. His uberness and ego have been severly bruised. The casual player can get at his loot now and he does not like it one bit.