[potential bug] Group loot and quest items

[Drooppi]

When a quest item drops on a mob, anyone can grab it (for instance a wailing essence at WC), which leads to people shift clicking the damn thing all the time, and the one with the worst connection (usually Aussies) gets f-ed in the a.

I'm fairly sure this isn't blizzlike. How I remember it to be:
- if the one looting the mob can get the item, he's the only one that can loot it until he frees the mob
- if the one looting the mob can't get the item, anyone is free to take it

Could anyone confirm? This is not for all items, only for like "bristleback tusks" and that kind of stuff, not for "Anacondra's gem" (ie boss/named items)

Cheers

[TaylorShift]

I have definitely seen this occur many many times. Hasnt made me angry yet...

[dots]

Not a bug, was like that until I think cata.

[Stone]

Not a bug. Only single quest items are for all party members and only that on this patch.

[Drooppi]

Not a bug. Only single quest items are for all party members and only that on this patch.

Which is exactly what I mean, now I can't get my deviate hides because I have latency and others can take "my mob", and I've never had issues with that...

Unfortunately, I can't find anything proving it. So I know it's not how it's supposed to work, but could you show where it's written that "it works as intended" ? If it's been changed in cataclysm, I should find "we changed the loot rules" in the cataclysm patch note, I'm currently looking but can't find it. And also, If it had been changed in cataclysm, I wouldn't even be aware of it...

Cheers

[eunuck1]

how it is, tell your leader to set round robin if grploot isnt what you prefer
http://vanilla-wow.wikia.com/wiki/Loot

[jsb]

Confirmed, that's a bug. Non-shared quest items are currently free-for-all lootable, while they should be round-robin lootable.

[S3khM3t]

Confirmed, that's a bug. Non-shared quest items are currently free-for-all lootable, while they should be round-robin lootable.

You again ... Don't confirmed bug since you are not sur ( like combo points ... ) . Some quest have this behaviour, when you have items to collect every one can't loot it for each quests . Only head of xxx or that kind of stuff are different .

[Avshar]

no, this is not working properly. Everyone should be able to obtain the quest item from a mob in a group loot, however, only one person should be able to loot it tops. Currently, when all 5 people shift loot at the same time, all 5 people will get the one quest item, which is of course wrong, because only one quest item dropped, obtainable by only one guy.

[Macalister]

Im gonna go ahead and agree that this is a bug and should work just as Drooppi explained in his original post, however I doubt its easy to resolve so I wouldnt hold my breath for it to change.
The same issue will happen in Scholomance / Stratholme for rep items, they will be ffa. The same issue resides on the Feenix realms.