http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=12680047996&sid=1&pageNo=2#36

It bugs me when people show up in a PUG and take it on themselves to announce how ‘we’ are going to handle rolls. They may be fine people just trying to avoid drama, but my first impression was a loudmouth jerk bossing me around.

Asking at the beginning accomplishes the same thing – getting people to handle the loot with similar expectations. And it lets the group decide if that’s Greed or Need.

/p I hate loot drama!! Roll **NEED** on the damned orb.

end of problem. I spam it just before the last boss on any of the toons I’m running a heroic on.

and i think this is why i prefer to run with guildies, no drama about loot.

There’s already a blacklisting app – all you need to do is ignore the person from the right-click menu when clicking on their name in a chatlog, or type “/ignore charactername-realmname” and the LFD tool will never group you with that person again.

So type “/ignore dvdat-zuluhed” and you’ll be good to go.

It’s a really awesome feature, best thing since stacking clams.

I’ve had someone wait till RIGHT before the timer was about to expire before rolling need, and when I called him out on it say he thought “everyone was rolling need”

“Um, except that you were the LAST person to roll.”

…/drops group and disappears into the night

You can almost immediately tell who’s a ninja and who’s just used to needing stuff. You can tell by when and how they roll, if it’s immediate and without pause it’s usually not malicious, if they wait 30 seconds for everybody else to hit greed first they’re actively trying to ninja them.

I just wait till everybody else has hit need or greed and respond accordingly. If someone hits need I also hit need (rare), but if they all hit greed (sometimes reluctantly for some as they don’t “want” to get caught being a ninja) I hit greed and be done with it.

Like others, I have taken to hitting a macro (I usually do it right after the 2nd to last boss) that announces my intent to roll need. So far, it’s working fairly well.

Insightful as always Keeva, thanks!

This implies that you will roll NEED thus giving the other members fair warning. They will in turn roll NEED as well.

I usually announce this as well, at least when I’m tanking/party leader and there have been no complaints and everyone rolled NEED.

Last night I went into a group on an alt, did not announce ‘ROLL NEED’. At the end of the run someone rolled GREED, others (including me) follow suit. One person rolled NEED, got the orb and left group.

Live and learn.