Distracting Shot

Loot system in cross-real dungeons March 7, 2010

My level 44 rogue encountered a hunter the other day in a random Marudon instance, who rolled need on two pieces of plate gear. There are a few issues with this:
Being that the loot system was on need/greed, the hunter in question shouldn’t have been able to need plate pieces. That’s the point of need/greed.
We couldn’t kick him after the first time he did this, and so he then ninja’d a second piece of gear (that he couldn’t even use) before the timer let us vote to kick him.

Of course, I submitted an in-game ticket about this, since the loot system shouldn’t have allowed this. The responding GM gave no information on why he could loot this, or why we were not allowed to kick him, but rather suggested that perhaps his behavior was acceptable – something about the loot system allowing that. He said to use the suggestions forum to make changes to the loot system – I’ll cross-post this to the blizzard forums later – even though I am not suggesting that the loot system be changed. He didn’t seem to understand that ‘need before greed’ shouldn’t allow mail-wearers to loot plate.

Anyway, if anyone else has seen something like this, either poor behavior or a bug in the loot system, feel free to share your experiences.