DDO Source Podcast 3 – Insert Filler Title Here

I have a question for you Walt concerning game etiquette. The following happened in-game, and I’d like to get your personal opinion about it.

I found myself in a PUG VoN raid which I think we had about 4 members of our guild involved in. The “hosts” of this raid zerged the whole thing, and I can honestly say I learned absolutely nothing about the raid during this process. Up front we said in voice chat that we had very little experience in this raid. I personally said to direct my character in the direction you needed me to go, and I would do so. Well, there was a lot of dead air, and party chat with filled with a lot of juvenile B.S. Summary: it was not a pleasant experience.

Now one of the players in the party said that he would roll for the possible reward the “Sword of Shadow”. I myself never gave any indication that I would make such a roll, and neither did any of my guildies.

I did not read this for myself, but one of my other guildies also said he read the guy stating that we would roll for items “that we did not want”.

So we get to the end chest and one of my guildies pulls the sword. He passes it to me, as my character uses great swords – which is what this sword is. He was a rogue/wizard. I pulled a rare robe. I offered this over voice chat to whoever wanted it. No one said anything except one of my guildies, who I passed it to. Then that same guildie pulled the exact same thing and passed it along to someone else who desired it in the party who was not of our guild.

The first guy who had made the “rolling” statements immediately began a hissy fit saying he was going to squelch us, never play with us again, cursed us out, etc etc. He even continued to send tells to one of the other guildies talking about myself especially.

Now I am of the opinion that the items you get in the chest are already up to chance. There’s no guarantee you’d get them anyway. So my opinion is that if the person who pulls the item, wants the item, he/she should keep the item. If you don’t want the item, pass it to someone who does. If multiple people want it, make them roll for it. This has been our guild’s policy for loot since its beginnings.

I am also under the distinct impression that if this guy had pulled the item he would have immediately claimed with not so much as a word.

And, like you, I don’t care who gets what. I never look at loot logs either because I don’t care. All these items are nothing more than pixels, and some people take these named items too seriously.

What I am hoping for here, Walt, is to get an outside unbiased opinion. So what say you? Were we in the wrong?