A bit upset currently as I was farming my phase 1 BiS set all day (Beast Lord) for my hunter, with not much luck and drop, except for one piece (hands from ShH), that was needed and won by a restoration shaman who claimed afterwards that he has no interest in playing any other spec than restoration.
The group I joined, consisted of a rogue, hunter, rShaman, protWarrior, and me as hunter. I explicitely asked on /party if the other hunter needs it, because thats what i’m going for. He said that he does not, so I can have it. Everyone knew that I am going for this particular piece and nobody held anything against this.
Was lucky enough that it dropped, and before anything, i was already euphoric, and expressed this on /party chat, and others cheered and gratulated to me. Then the shaman pressed need on it out of nowhere. Then i asked why, and he said “oh sh*t” and “missclick”. Then i pressed need too, and obviously he won (99 over my 3).
He said it was a missclick, and he has no intention in playing anything else than restoration. I asked him to write a ticket, and him and the party leader (rogue), said they submitted the ticket.
Sidenote: it is a set item that has a hunter set bonus (bis for beast mastery hunters during pahse 1 of TBC), it is by no means lucrative even for enhancement shamans, but it is not even the case as he was healer and not interested in playing enhancement.
Is there a chance that a GM steps in and helps?
I tried to research and could not find the answer I was looking for but I did find that on the 2018 BlizzCon, Blizzard stated that they implement the 2-hour trade window for raid items: “to solve a common problem: a player could accidentally loot an item meant for another player” - which I feel like is totally the case in this situation. This was not an exploit by us, the 5 of us started the run together and only the 5 of us were present, and someone accidentally, unintentionally took an item from someone else who actually needed it.
