Reins Of The Bronze Doh…
I ran Heroic Culling of Stratholme for the second time ever the other day. Tthe idea of trying the timed run was tossed out as we were all getting ready to head inside. I had never made an attempt at that before, and no one was particularly serious or gunning for it, but a few minutes into the actual run it was pretty clear we at least had an outside shot of completing it. We stepped up our efforts a bit and with decent DPS and excellent tanking and heals we did very well.
With about two minutes to go on the timer we sprinted to the end just in time to take on and take out the Infinite Corruptor for the Culling of Time achievement and the chance to roll on the Reins of the Bronze Drake. The resulting Need roll by everyone in the group is posted above. As you can tell, it was a heartbreaker for yours truly.
[Edit: I assume] when players tie using the Need/Greed system the game automatically, and silently, does a re-roll to determine the winner. So even though you can’t see it in that screenshot there was actually a second roll handled by the game that awarded the mount to a player not named Nance.
For what it’s worth, our group’s tank won the mount and since he did an excellent job it seemed fair enough to me. In the end I was more interested in the achievement than the mount so while it was a bit of a kick in the face as far as the roll was concerned I can live without the Bronze Drake for now.
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4 Comments
Nance on July 8th, 2009
I edited this post to make it clearer that I’m just guessing what happens with a tie.
Syrana on July 8th, 2009
So close!
Sideshow and I have encountered tied greed rolls before while questing together. I usually won those, so we assumed the game just favored females. :P I kid. I think your right that the game does an unseen tie breaker roll.
Gnomeaggedon on July 8th, 2009
Owww… damn…
You need to run with a group of 4 others that already have it (and don’t slack off cause they do)… stack the roll so-to-speak
Mikuso on July 8th, 2009
Heh, wow.
In the past did this work differently?
I always thought that in the case of a tie, the loot was given to the latter of the winners in roll-order.
Your screenshot proves that this is no longer the case, but has it always been this way?