Gem (DDO) for Unbinding : Bound to Character

[Zuldar]

Yes, it would. The raid loot sharing is one of the best things in DDO. If I pulled the Torc on my rogue for instance, I put it up for roll. If it was not bound, I would not do this, because I have 7-8 other characters that need it. The current state of affairs means that people are more likely to spread the raid loot around, so those that need it are more likely to be able to make use of what drops.

If you look at it from the flip side though it could increase sharing by quite a bit. You would only ever need one of each item, so if you have say 3 or 4 people who need a torc, you could just pass the one around. So the other three or so you would normally take, you could instead pass them to someone else.

[Lorien_the_First_One]

Yes, it would. The raid loot sharing is one of the best things in DDO. If I pulled the Torc on my rogue for instance, I put it up for roll. If it was not bound, I would not do this, because I have 7-8 other characters that need it. The current state of affairs means that people are more likely to spread the raid loot around, so those that need it are more likely to be able to make use of what drops.

This in turn helps the newer and more casual players more. They are less likely to have alts to pass them stuff or needs tuff, where as the vets with 10-20 characters definately will have a need for anything that falls on some character. Removing binding thus hurts that casual player much much more.

To give a small example, I ran two Shrouds today, pulled two small shards. Didn't need them on those two characters, but lord knows I need them on others. I put them up for a roll. Those shards would never have gone up in the OPs suggestion.

[Templarion]

Yes, it would. The raid loot sharing is one of the best things in DDO. If I pulled the Torc on my rogue for instance, I put it up for roll. If it was not bound, I would not do this, because I have 7-8 other characters that need it. The current state of affairs means that people are more likely to spread the raid loot around, so those that need it are more likely to be able to make use of what drops.

No it would be the end of sharing loot in raids.

so, how much raid loot have you pulled? majority of raid loot i see gotten is in 20ths, or guild runs where many people already have the item, and it gets passed around...so if much of that stopped...there would be virtually only what you pull, and people rarely put loot up for roll as is, should that go away? should we all rely on that 20% chance to get ANY raid loot whatsoever (and alot of raid loot isn't very good at all, let alone for whatever type character you are building), sure now that you can transfer it, it should be easier to get, right? or will it be harder because you have a hard time getting that shard of power? (I only see 1 per run, 2 if lucky)

I see no problem if nobody shares their loot. The game shares the loot evenly already.

The rolling system is out dated. It depends on people following some commonly accepted regulations. It is strange that all arguments against unbinding relates on this subject. The possibility to roll should be used only randomly - not to share the raid loot during every raid.

If no item was bound, it could be transfered to other characters, to a friend or sold to random people.

If everyone could sell their equipment, they could do that before they destroy/abandon their character and the already found items would not vanish entirely. Of course, many people don't care so the most of the equipment would vanish anyway but at least without binding it could be possible.