I hear where you're coming from. As a druid, I sometimes have to heal, sometimes nuke, sometimes damage shield and DOT, but rarely, if ever, melee. So I run into the same problem of not being near the corpse when it dies and the group you're with is FFA. I really don't mind free for all loot, provided that everyone understands no one needs to get greedy. By the sound of it, you were hunting in Highkeep, a personal favorite of mine. Most groups that are not ffa usually go alphabetically and you keep looting until you get a total of 2pp, a bronze or FS weapon or armor, or some combination of ore (down in the warrior and raider rooms).
I don't think any looting order is any better than others. I think it completely depends on the people you're grouped with. Some people can do the ffa loot and no one ever loots too much and it works smoothly. And in the alpha loot, as long as everyone's honest, that works well too.
Cooperation is the key.
Kevin
EverQuest@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> Recently in some of the groups I've been in, we've had a few problems withloot order. Often, the tanks will insist on FFA. But since I play the main
healer and am expected to sit and med (only getting up to heal) I get
totally screwed. I never get loot. But then when we try to establish alpha
loot some people complain. They don't care about the casters. All they care
about is getting loot for themselves. These people partake in
"ninja-looting". They loot everything really fast so nobody else gets a
chance. And even when we establish a regular loot order some people will
still loot out of turn.
And then we have times when people say we roll for certain types of loot.
When I first joined a group, this one guy told me it was ffa (and he was a
ninja-looter) but that "bronze" and ore were rolled for. I saw that he
picked up an FS morning star and wanted to roll for it (bc it's an expensive
item). He said no, it was only for bronze, not FS. So later he picked up a
bronze weapon. I said, "ok, let's roll for it". He said, "no, that's only
for bronze armor"...
Has anyone else had this problem?
What do you think is the best and fairest loot order?
Just wondering.
luv,
-Su
ps. alpha loot with 3 loots per turn (per person) works pretty well when
people cooperate.
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