--- Ken Bachman <kbachman@...> wrote:

> Without resending this thread, the discussion was
> about whether specific
> character types should be allowed to lotto for
> specific items.
>
> My own stance on this is: if it isn't no-drop/not
> bard, or lore/I
> already own it, I have a right to lotto for it.
> This isn't Baldur's
> Gate, where I'm controlling a party of six, and I
> maximize my personal
> effectiveness by putting the best equipment with the
> most appropriate
> character. I've got one character in this game.
> Me. There isn't a
> prayer that I would buy the "he can use it better"
> argument in a pickup
> group, and seeing just how often players pick up and
> move between guilds,
> I don't even buy it at the guild level. Among very
> close, trusted
> friends, I'll do it, but even then only if it
> doesn't happen repeatedly.
>
> Even if I can't use the item effectively, it's still
> a tradeable item
> that I can use to get something I CAN use. And if I
> start to buy in to
> the "he can use it better" argument, I'll never get
> anything but
> instruments, and I'll certainly never have anything
> lying around my bank
> to allow me to trade up.
>
> If I'm good enough to be in the group, I'm good
> enough to lotto for any
> item the group gets. If they can use it better than
> I can, they can
> trade me something for it.
>
> I'm not a complete hard-ass about this, btw. My
> first FG run, when the
> leader asked all melee types to lotto for mith arms,
> I rolled (to the
> annoyance of many) and won (to the even greater
> annoyance of many). I
> gave them to my level 50 warrior friend. But he's
> given ME stuff, and I
> know he's not going to take them and sell them on
> EBay or anything.
>
> Kenross Cantoforjado, 47 songs, Innoruuk
>

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