Eligible players can trade BoP items in 3.2

According to MMO Champion, there’s a new feature now in the patch 3.2 PTR that will allow the trading of BoP items. It’s not what you think though and I actually think this feature could do more good than harm. It’s a great feature and will make things more convenient.

no more looting mistakes

When you loot a BoP item, the following message comes with the item text: “You may trade this item with players that were eligible to loot this item for the next {time remaining}” as shown in this picture from MMO Champion. This means that you can’t trade BoP items to people who didn’t earn the right to receive such an item. So for example in a raid, you can only trade the item only to people in your raid who were part of the fight that dropped it. You can’t go shouting in Dalaran right after a boss kill and selling such an item to the highest bidder. This is obviously a move made to give players more power to do something about items that were part of a looting mistake. With this feature, players won’t need to hound the game masters as much.

Another thing this feature can consequently do is when someone “ninjas” an item you’ll be able to tell if looted it by mistake (since he can give it to the rightful winner of the roll) or if he’s really a ninja. This will make things a little more honest in terms of loot rolling. I tip my hat to the devs for putting in this feature in patch 3.2.