I'm interested to find out exactly which functionality was removed with the new loot system. If we've made an oversight, we'll look into it.
As far as I know, you can select "Lotto" and "All Items" and have the lotto loot method identical to the way it was before GU43.
As far as the ordering of "Need" and "Greed" buttons you bring up a good point, but would it be worse to change it now once people have been getting used to it?
Like Lyndro mentioned, the quest items have been fixed and will no longer be distributed via round-robin. As soon as the next hotfix goes out, you'll see it on live servers.
I think we'll probably be forcing no-trade items to have a loot confirmation as well, but I'd like to do it right and create a new loot confirmation window that shows the item icon so you can mouse over it for a full description. The only issue to resolve here is what happens when a no-trade item is declined. If the chest is looted again, the system would attempt to assign it to the same person since they were the last person to get loot. So this needs a bit of thought first.
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