duckyboy

True. I guess you could see it as just handing the warrior 350g or so to buy some stockade pauldrons off the AH himself. I think this is the best idea of what is being tossed around here though. It's easier to look at this situation and think "hey, a BoE dropped", when instead you could think "Hey, 350g just dropped. The tank could immediately benefit from it (in the form of equipping the actual item) but also I could realllly use that 350g because it would pay for that sweet ass mage item on the AH" At that point, if I was in beerwizards position, I'd be torn. 350g would be nice, but would it be worth it to incur the wrath of not only my party members, but who they're connected to (guilds, friends) and how they spread the word of what I did? Also, just to clarify, but this wasn't a ninja loot. Ninjalooting, to me, is someone enabling master loot and grabbing a BoP they need from the boss, instead of playing fair and rolling for it like everyone else. This was just a "should I be a nice guy or a greedy guy" moment.

I understand where both sides are coming from. I'm unsure of how I would behave in this situation (and I'm in no way scolding Beerwizard for his actions, he did what he felt was right FOR HIM under the circumstances, albeit a bit greedy). On one hand, you're running a dungeon with 4 other strangers. You're all hoping for what you need to drop from the bosses...then something unexpected happens and a BoE epic drops. It's rare as fuck. It's most definitely an upgrade for the tank but then again it can be sold on the AH for a hefty amount of gold to fuel either your epic mount or a BoE epic that you want as well. Technically, it will be an upgrade for you in some aspect. Now, the nice thing to do would be just to give it to him for a few reasons; it would make him happy and the run could continue and everyone could be happy together. if you roll need to ensure that someone else didn't pull trickery in the group and then give it to him, securing his trust for future runs with him. or what happened in this situation, take the item for yourself because you'll be "upgrading yourself" in some way but now you put yourself at risk of being excluded from certain groups with certain people in the future, being barred from interaction with a small section of the populace of Elysium. Personally, it wouldn't be that big of a deal if I lost a BoE epic that was for me (sure, annoying) but I wouldn't let it ruin my night lol. I'm just happy to be able to be playing vanilla wow from 2004 in 2017 with minimal bugs. Gotta see the bigger picture.