12-18-2009, 05:29 PM
I'm not really sure what the big deal is. Obviously in guild runs you can use whatever loot system that you want. The dungeon queue system doesn't replace guild runs, but provides you with a fast, easy alternative to do when you can't find a group from your guild.
As you said, that doesn't fix the whole cloth/leather issues for casters/melee so if there is something you absolutely need from a certain instance but the game won't let you roll need on it, you'll just have to run that instance to get that item the old fashioned way. As far as offspec sorts of drops, if you need something in any capacity, roll need. If you win a contested roll but it's not a big deal to you, you can always trade it to them. I did that last night on my Druid where I rolled on a feral necklace, then traded it to the enhancement shaman who could actually use it but I beat on the roll.
Given the volume of instances you can run with the group finder, I don't see the system as anything but a huge boon to how fast you can gear up. While you can't roll on leather with a warrior (other than greed), you'll probably see plate for that slot pretty quickly. Even if you don't, you're stockpiling massive amounts of badges that you can use to purchase emblem gear up to ilvl 245 which blows the socks off of the stuff that actually drops in heroics. I know that I look forward to getting my next alt up to level 80 so I can actually start looking at drops to see if I need it again and then grab tiered gear from emblems to fix up bad slots! :)
As you said, that doesn't fix the whole cloth/leather issues for casters/melee so if there is something you absolutely need from a certain instance but the game won't let you roll need on it, you'll just have to run that instance to get that item the old fashioned way. As far as offspec sorts of drops, if you need something in any capacity, roll need. If you win a contested roll but it's not a big deal to you, you can always trade it to them. I did that last night on my Druid where I rolled on a feral necklace, then traded it to the enhancement shaman who could actually use it but I beat on the roll.
Given the volume of instances you can run with the group finder, I don't see the system as anything but a huge boon to how fast you can gear up. While you can't roll on leather with a warrior (other than greed), you'll probably see plate for that slot pretty quickly. Even if you don't, you're stockpiling massive amounts of badges that you can use to purchase emblem gear up to ilvl 245 which blows the socks off of the stuff that actually drops in heroics. I know that I look forward to getting my next alt up to level 80 so I can actually start looking at drops to see if I need it again and then grab tiered gear from emblems to fix up bad slots! :)
-TheDragoon