The Need Before Greed system is actually "just" an extra button, with priority given. Right now you either roll for something or you don't. With Need Before Greed, you have an extra tier of "rolling" where if someone decides that they "need" something they'll be given a priority roll. If only one person in your group selects need, then they'll get the item. Lots of groups have systems worked out for themselves, and that's great. We just wanted to make it a little bit easier.
We talked at great length whether we'd define "need" and determine if you could roll need on an item you couldn't use. We decided that it isn't for us to decide what your group's definition of need is. If you are a transmuter and you need to collect items to transmute, if you are level 76 and an item drops with a min level of 78, if you have every piece of loot you could ever want, and are playing with a group to pick up an extra item for an alt... These are all situations that could, or could not be, valid "need" situations. There still needs to be some honor in place, and you still need to trust the people you are grouping with. Especially since we never could have done anything to prevent situations where one player in your group rolls greed on something, when they are already using something better.
While it is called need before greed, maybe a better way to think about it is "Really Want before Kind of Want." Right now there is no distinction in place, you either want something or you don't. The old lotto rules will remain in place, and if you don't want to use the new system, it isn't a big deal. This is just intended to give you another looting option, we've all been in those situations where everyone denies something and those corpses are left to sit. Now you can just select "greed" if you so desire, and if no one rolls "need" you have a chance to take the item to the vendor/broker/mannequin.
Edit: One nice thing about need before greed that I forgot, is it allows you to set a priority for need before greed. You can select "All items" if you want to NB4G everything that drops, or you can select an item "rarity" (Treasured +, Legendary +, Fabled +). If anything that quality or higher drops, then it automatically goes into the need before greed rolling. However everything below that just goes to round robin.
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(Lyndro-EQ2) Re:New Need Before Greed Option In GU43
