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The roll system in WoW is what I would consider a necessary evil.
It's clear that everybody that participates in Public Quests are there for the loot.
However if said person arrives much later then the group that started the Public Quest, there is no incentive to actually participate in it since they are guaranteed shoddy loot.

With nobody but the initial players participating it's a good chance the PQ won't even be completed at all and thus ultimately nobody get the loot.

The random roll is to encourage people to actually participate in the PQ which is the most important factor and loot secondary to that.

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Good point. I think the PQ system is fine: the more you contribute the better your odds become at getting a top roll, but there's still enough of a random factor that anyone can win. If the loot went to whoever contributed the most. then I think there would be louder complaints about how this contribution is calculated. How do you measure healing vs. dps vs tank maintaining aggro vs cc, etc. Perhaps because they are called Public QUESTS people expect a definite reward after a definite effort, like with quests, but PQs are more of a variation on instances, and instances are mainly about doing a lot of work just to get a chance at a totally random roll.

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