Originally Posted by Tucker

As a relatively new player and even newer raider, I find this thread very interesting. I have a question to pose to the experienced raiders: What would you think of a "smart loot" system to determine boss drops? What I am thinking is a system that would check the composition of the raid, and the gear it already has before determining the loot that a boss drops. My experiences that lead me to this idea come from running Kara many times without a shaman, and invariably on Maiden, for example, the totem drops. Or that we have two hunters with TWO Sunfury bows from Prince because he seemingly won't drop any other loot for us. Yes, bad luck, I understand, but if there was a "smart loot" system, our group could move faster into ZA and other content and wouldn't need to be running the same instance over and over because we are unlucky to get the drops that some members need to progress.