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Wow govild the looter6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() With the advent of patch 3.3.0, Need before Greed was implemented as the standard looting system, the ability to ninja loot has been significantly reduced, so long as everyone hits 'need'. Many guilds also have rules stating that ninjas/pirates should be kicked from the guild on their first offense. Unfortunately, a tainted reputation can often be avoided by changing one's character name. Often, a ninja will get a bad reputation on a realm which eventually prevents them from being invited to participate in any high level instances. ![]() Loot ninjas are, understandably, not well liked by most players. Gold farmers also try to join instance groups in order to ninja/pirate loot items and sell them. Especially one who sets up a group just for the first or second boss, and then hearthstones without speaking or claiming he has to sleep or work, meanwhile setting up another group to loot it again, perhaps prominent of Gold Farmers. A party or raid leader who changes the looting system to " Master Loot" near the end of a boss kill and steals the loot off of a corpse without letting other players roll for the items.A player who loots a chest or harvests a resource while another player is fighting the mobs which were defending it, possibly using stealth or a dash ability to aid in this.If there are no enchanters in the group and no one changes their mind, generally the group will roll for its NPC value. Sometimes players loot items for more sentimental reasons (like "town clothes" in RP servers) and will normally pass on it unless no one else needs it. Additionally, if no one needs it and no one reconsidered, it often goes to a enchanter, who disenchants it, and then the group rolls for the materials acquired from the disenchanted item. Generally, groups decide how to best make use of the item that no one can use, sometimes DPS classes will back out of +healing/+spell damage (as opposed to just +spell damage) even if it is an upgrade and will ask for the item if no one else needs it. A player who rolls on a BoP item that everyone else has passed on or a player who loots a corpse without permission after everyone has passed on a BoP item.A player who, when in a group, rolls "Need" on BoE recipes for a character they are not currently playing.A player who, when in a group, rolls "Need" on everything regardless of if he or she can use it.The term seems to have a few different meanings depending on whom you ask, including:
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