Central argument of OP has merit, in that you need friends in Classic to accomplish things. Normally you expect to get something out of it, and that's what guilds are for. In guilds, if you get the item, you get the item fair and square. You're expected to let other people in your guild get gear too, when they need it. They don't forget that you got loot.However, in pick-up groups you don't have any such considerations. You get a much higher chance to get that particular piece of gear. Meanwhile, the non-friend pug player who contributes to that run, was expecting to roll on a 20%-20%-0%-0%-0%…

Crustus, if Loot Trading is in the game, I will guild up for any minor dungeon run and not join any pugs. I'm not gonna run the risk and I'm going to maximize my chances of getting loot. Does that make me a bad person? Wouldn't you do the same?Essentially, the Classic WoW "community" will turn into the WotLK community where you basically knew your 25 guild members, and perhaps, the occasional pug that didn't matter.Loot Trading discourages pugs. Pugs are necessary for a Classic WoW community to form, with about 2000 players concurrently.

11/11/2018 07:54Posted by KealaI guess this is a much better compromise compared to the system without any restrictions, even though I'd rather not have loot trading at all.I still prefer to enable loot trading only in 40 man raids, but this doesn't sound bad either.What if loot trading works just like when you choose what kind of loot rules to use? When selecting a Loot Rule (Master Loot, FFA, Group Loot, etc), a new option will display that lets you choose between having loot trading enabled or disabled, how would this work out?EDIT: They could even implement some sort of confirmation from t…

11/11/2018 21:10Posted by NuckchorrisCant wait for sharded AQ opening. That will be epic!Imagine you "bang the gong" with like, 4 other people there, in your group, because you sharded.You see a horde of Anubisath Guardians and Sentinels storming at you and your 4 buddies. Then you cry. Welcome to sharding!

I still don't completely believe they don't have backups of 1.3 1.7 database etc. on those original WoW servers.In any case, the modern client provides many benefits in security, network and database optimization, and just good anti-exploit measures.1.12.1 client sucks in those regards. But it's still a lot of work to make the 7.3.5. client look and feel like the 1.12.1 one.

Sharding breaks immersion. Dynamic respawns all the way!

You were a noob, but everybody was back then, so it didn't matter.Get into high end guild these days and you get confronted with the 20-30% less effective. Which is significant, but not if you just want to have fun and complete the content.It's better to have that 40th raider, than to not have him/her. Regardless of spec. +70% > +0%.

And there will be 500 more. Sharding breaks immersion.It will not increase server cap.It will not save costs.

I think the only solution that does not discourage pugs is:- Master Loot- Raid- If you receive an item, you can only trade for 2 hours to the Master Looter, who can also always trade those items for 2 hours to anyone. Anyone he/she trade it to, can only trade it back to the Master Looter, and so on.In all other cases, Bind on Pickup is Bind on Pickup is Soulbound is too bad.Frankly, this remembering of Roll order per item sounds much more complicated to use. No offense to OP, but there are simpler methods.The goal is to prevent unnecessary GM time, to make the cost of maintenance for WoW Class…

So you can demand nobody in your pug ninja's, but how do you check that? If a player can use the item and already has it, he can unequip it and need it, equip the one he had and trade the extra one to his guildie after the run.Loot trading will mess up all pick-up groups.Sharding will always break immersion.Neither belong in Classic WoW.