Blizzard Currently Plans on Group Loot Returning to Raid Content in Dragonflight

Dragonflight Publicado 14/07/2022 a las 11:21 por Squishei

Group Loot isn't Master LootWowhead: In a previous interview, you mentioned that master loot was something you wanted to do but was looking for the right implementation, which kind of was a change from ‘no’ previously. Any update to that?

Ion Hazzikostas: Yeah! I think I would describe it more as group loot rather than master loot. That’s the specific process of a single loot master allocating the drops, that’s actually in some ways some of the stuff we were looking to move away from back in the day. But moving away from personal to shared pool of loot, where you kill a raid boss, you work together with 15 or 20 or 30 people to do it, there’s 5 items on the corpse you can roll for those items, you can pass on them, you can trade them to your friends; that’s a world we think we want to be in again.

We’re still hammering out the details, but our current plan is to have raid bosses in Dragonflight work that way. This is a raid boss specific system. Dungeon loot is fine. We haven’t really heard people clamoring for the return of group loot in dungeons, and getting a bow from a chest at the end of a dungeon when a group has no hunter–but I think raids are uniquely a cooperative experience, they lend themselves to a cooperative loot allocation mechanism. And that’s the current plan. bringing master loot back was a long-term goal

Ion & Asmongold

So it's not that the team is necessarily ideologically opposed to this, it's just that there is a lot of tech problems and the dissonance. I think it was Antorus whenever this happened, just caused problems?

Yeah, we had our tools, our code, every assumption we made in how we build loot tables from 2018 onwards has gone in one direction, and now we'd need to just turn back around. There's a lot of questions to figure out also, we should also bear in mind that going back to group loot means you could have a bow drop with no Hunters in the raid, and sometimes that's a thing that will happen and that feels bad, but that's kind of ok - it has to be. The thing we can't have happen is a world where loot is still smart and if you stack a group with like 6 Warriors, you're only going to get Warrior loot and it's completely tradeable with no restrictions? That just kind of breaks everything, so we need to just figure out a middle ground going forward, but... that's something we want to do.

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