02-26-2005, 07:36 PM
Cryptic,Feb 25 2005, 04:15 PM Wrote:Never play with pickup groups if you can help it; form a cadre of good trustworthy friends you can group with when needed. Mutually understood need before greed with experienced players, maturing into a guild DKP system later on, is the way to go.
Playing in pickup groups is how I find and form my cadre of good trustworthy friends. I don't worry so much about people ninja looting in the early levels, because I know better equipment is just around the corner. When it happens, I'm just thankful that the person showed their personality early on, so I know never to party with that person later on. Meanwhile, I find out who the good players are -- both skillwise and personalitywise -- and start forming a friends list network.
I know it doesn't sound fair when someone ninja loots something, but just know that it will come back and bite them in the butt later on. If the person ninja loots on you, they'll ninja-loot on others, and by the time they get to level 60, no reasonably good players will party with them. This isn't like Diablo II where a person can ninja loot something and disappear into the crowd. The population of players on an individual server is small enough that people do get to know each other and run into each other a lot. I've been level capped for more than a month now, and I have yet to see a single instance of clear ninjalooting. There have been arguments over loot, of course, like whether a priest or mage can roll on the "warlock" dreadmist set. But I haven't seen a single instance of a clear ninja loot -- and that's even though I play in a lot of pickup groups.