[Messianic]

Parse the words behind NBG - Need? Who needs a damn thing in this game? The mentality behind people who are hypersensitive about NBG is ridiculous.

Why is some monk in a KC group (who's probably already heavily twinked, statistically speaking) entitled to the Tstaff drop? Why is his use of it more useful than someone else's use of the 25k it would easily yield?

Because so much of the gear drops in this game are tradeable, the value of the item isn't solely based on its actual use by someone in the group; and in reality, MQ's do change things. I personally would never take a no-drop item so I can sell the MQ if someone in the group could use it and find that kind of silly. But if the MQ is really that valuable and the group agrees to it...there's nothing wrong with it.

Who gets more utility - a monk who upgrades from a peacebringer to a tstaff, or a shaman who buys an iksar regen BP and a host of hp/wis gear using the proceeds from selling the staff? Who was really "needy" (in a loose sense) in that situation? If the goal is to help the "needy", why not do gearscores on every person in the friggin group?

Obviously, that's a waste of time. But just assuming NBG helps the less geared is really stupid.


tl;dr - learn/set the loot rules as soon as you join a pug, and you need to seriously re-think NBG if you think it's actually the best system for helping the "needy" (again, using the word loosely).