last night group...what do you think??Follow

This is another short story about somebody getting loot they shouldn't have.

Anyways I was in a group inside of stormhold and the leader had forgot to put lotto loot on. We was busy with non stop pulls and he just never did get around to putting it on. Well nothing major was dropping, just normal merchant junk.

Well then we get a chest drop and this person immediately loots it. The item was a sword of thunder (maybe sword of storms?) off a skeliton near the chessboard. Everyone in the group felt we should /random this item since it was a rare drop. Well the leader just stands there while the group randoms. After about 3 minutes of "Are you there" and "Hello??" he says something about ok lets head back. Then everybody tells him he needs to random and he just stands there againf or about a minute before saying "What for?" Finnally after a good 5 minutes of debating and telling him how to random he randoms and he loses. I happened to be the person with the highest number and the group did the usual "Grats" etc. Then he comes over to me and just stands there. HE claims the item is NO TRADE. Several members of the group agree that they have seen this item for sale and that it is tradeable.

So then we ask him to link it so we can see it. Now this guy is level 19ish and he don't know how to link. So everybody tells him to drag it to the text area and release and it will link. Id say every bit of 10 minutes go by and he can't link the sword. So finnally I just tell them forget about it cause I had to go anyways.

Sounds to me like he was playing dumb, but does anybody know if this sword is indeed no trade? I looked around on the site and didn't see nothing on it. If it is indeed NO TRADE it will be the first weapon/armor that I have seen drop that wasn't tradeable??

It just seems odd the way he acted about it, constantly delaying etc.

What was his name? What server please? I wouldn't ever want to group with him. Thx.

That's what the dropped sword becomes when you complete the quest. The drop is "Sword of Thunder" and it is tradable.

Realize however, once someone examines this sword, it becomes a placeholder item, either still called "Sword of Thunder" or "Berrik, Sword of Thunder". I haven't been able to confirm exactly which name is used (never got the drop yet). More information can be found in the quest section of the official forums as there's a lot of threads about this sword. Anyway, once it's examined, it is useless to anyone else as it will no longer give the quest. The placeholder item should still be tradable, so be wary and don't get scammed.

*added*
I may be wrong about the placeholder still being tradable. Still, just be careful.

Edited, Wed Jan 26 21:10:13 2005 by ArcosKojin

Almost got scared there for a while.. Thought I knew the guy. But the guy I know is called Dreamsweaver and is not on the grobb server. My friend sure isnt a noob but a really good player, in EQ1 he was the best chanter I ever grouped with.

Well, that was abit OT..
Even if this guy didnt do anything on purpose I still wouldnt group with him again, if you are lvl 19 and are such a noob it means, to me, that you are not willing to learn to play.
I love helping noobs that wants to learn but this guy just dont seem willing to learn.
That, or he is 8 years old and dont speak english as first language.. O,o

That still doesn't explain why he couldn't tell you that at the time.

I've yet to see a quest that gave itself to you after item examination without asking. He might not have been aware that it would make the item NO-TRADE but he must have known that it would not be possible for others to get the quest from it.

The story made me wonder if he understood perefectly about lotto and just pretended not to understand so he didn't have to turn it on.

Most of us have probably looted something by mistake at some time in our MMO careers. the normal impulse is to apologise and try and make amends.

Sounds like a scam artist. But you are slightly at fault. Because early on, when he didn't set lotto right away, you should have insisted. When he still didn't do it, you should have insisted again, and then left the group. You knew at that point that he was going to ***** you, and you should have left and not given him the opportunity.

Or you chose to stay because you were having fun and didn't care about drops.

In either case, you should have been anticipating this right from the start.

I always forget to set lotto when I start a group. I accept that it happens for the first drop, I solo a lot and duo a lot, and in neither case use lotto, so I forget. 1 drop is an honest mistake.

That's for 1 drop. Any more than 1 drop and the person isn't making an error, they are going to ***** you.

The moral of the story is go into your group options and set the default loot option to lotto NOW. Then you don't have to remember to set it each time you start a group. And make sure it's set when you aren't leader too...