Tranquil Staff: Need Before Greed?

[Netherzul]

About a year ago, I made a group of my own in KC. I explained to everyone who accepted the invite that if the tstaff dropped, it was being NEEDED on and a roll would not be an option. 30 minutes into the group, I pulled the mob who had the tstaff in hand.

It went to me, with grats from the group.

If you want to secure your drop as an upgrade, create YOUR OWN group, from scratch, and explain the rules prior to inviting anyone. If someone even as much as hesitates to accept the rule, move on and invite someone else.

What your describing is NINJA LOOTING and will result in the reputation of your character being shit on by the server because a post will likely be made here as soon as it happens. You'll also likely lose the staff and access to your account for some time. If you want the staff, do it the right way, like I explained above.

[Diggles]

man, what are the chances of finding a group that are big enough tools to camp for tstaff and not have a chance at it?

[Ragri]

Originally Posted by Lowbacca32 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If the T staff would have dropped I was going to grab it and never look back, whether people roll or not.

That sounds like something a monk would do. Presumably due to FD, the class frequently attracts those that prefer not to have any consequences for their regular short-sighted, selfish actions.

The funny thing about NbG is that after level 50, it's only greedy people that like it. Especially monks, T-staffs, RBGs, SoSs, SBCs, a monk needs it all! Can you name that 30k caster item that drops in PUGs? Closest thing I think would be a hiero cloak, and I'm guessing most monks on the server also "need" that.

[Diggles]

ay ay ay not all monks are dbags :[

[cyryllis]

reminds me of so many posts on allakhazam back in the day...


it has int, cha, mana....but wait, whats that? HP? STA? LOW WEIGHT?

OMFG ITS A MONK ITEM GUYS


monks- greediest class since forever

[HawkMasterson1999]

No way dude, your fucking crazy. Pick up groups roll on 30k items. Period.

[Kika Maslyaka]

I rule that all T-staffs must be given to druids!
If there was no druid in a group when T-Staff dropped - you must find nearest druid and give him the staff! Any monk found carrying a T-staff or hiding it in his inventory or bank, will be severely punished by proper authorities! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Leeyuuduu]

There was no such thing as need before greed when EQ first came out. You know what happened in a pug when a 30k item dropped? A random group member would ninja loot it and log. And let's not forget, there were NO messages back then about who looted what (e.g., "Leeyuuduu looted a cracked staff"), leading to a hilarious blame game and poo flinging. That my friends is the classic experience.

In all seriousness though, I'd let the monk have it if he really needed it, and if the monk was his main, but unless you've played with them for awhile or they're a guildie there's no way of knowing any of that for sure.

[dragonfists]

Originally Posted by Lowbacca32 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I've been camping LCY for a couple days in KC... haven't seen a tranquil staff drop yet, but got into a discussion today with a ranger in the group. He said that everyone gets to roll on the T staff if it drops because it's 30k for any class. That's great for him, but my 51 monk is my main and that's who I was playing. If the T staff would have dropped I was going to grab it and never look back, whether people roll or not.

Now, this seems to me like that's what should happen. 6 players in the group and only 1 monk, using an imbued fighters staff. The T staff is an upgrade for the monk. What are the server rules in this situation? I don't want to just ninja the T staff but I definately don't think that other group members have the same rights to it as I do. Ideas?

you're retarted, please re-roll

[Kika Maslyaka]

Originally Posted by Leeyuuduu [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There was no such thing as need before greed when EQ first came out. You know what happened in a pug when a 30k item dropped? A random group member would ninja loot it and log. And let's not forget, there were NO messages back then about who looted what (e.g., "Leeyuuduu looted a cracked staff"), leading to a hilarious blame game and poo flinging. That my friends is the classic experience.

aye, thats exactly how it went. I remember huge scandal back in the day, when loot officer of one of the top guilds was continuously skimming the loot of the top raid targets. He would come to the raid with some item X (one of the lesser value items that that mob could drop), loot one of the good items that dropped, and then produce the item X as the current loot.

Eventually, after way to many "poor drops" his guild-mates got suspicious, and GM got involved who opened the logs proving that he was stealing from his guild.

Of course in everyday PUG this things happened on daily bases without anyone noticing.

So thank those interface improvements that came years later [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

PS. When /emote was introduced I liked to do things like that to drive my groupmates crazy:

/em ninja-looted Scimitar of Emerald Dawn (while standing next to Wuoshi corpse) [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
or
/em have foraged a Blue Diamond [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]