To be Needy you have to be Greedy.

I still have a handful of General achievements that don't require a mountain of gold. One of those is the Needy Achievement. This requires you to win a Need roll on an item above level 185. For the record, this is pretty most all Rares that drop from WotLK Heroics and up. Maybe a few of the level 80 Normal Dungeons too. So, 1) You have to be in a group. 2) You have to roll need. 3) You have to get 100. Doesn't sound so bad, does it?

Now take a person who is geared out from Emblems and low end raids and High End Heroics. There is NOTHING that will drop in a Heroic that I can feasibly Need, unless it's from the 3 new Dungeons. So, in order to get this Achievement, I have to roll Need on things that I don't Need which by the way I slice it, just doesn't feel right.

I decided that I had two courses of action. 1) Play with 4 of my friends for every Dungeon, set the loot option to Group Loot, and roll Need on everything until I get the Achievement. Now for some people this isn't a bad idea. Some people can get a group of the Guildies and friends and keep that group rolling through many, many random dungeons, every day. Alas, this isn't me. So, I'm left with option 2) PuG it, and be forced into the new Need Before Greed System. For my mage, I don't mind much, being on the bottom rung doesn't make me feel like I'm missing out, unlike my Druid. So, I chose option 2 and made a macro that says "/p Hi everyone! I'm working on the Needy Achievement. I will be rolling Need on CASTER ONLY (I put that part in for those who may not know the new system won't let me roll Need on anything else) items. If the item is an upgrade for anyone, you can GLADLY have it. I don't need the Loot, only the Achievement." I was real hesitant to go into the LFD and spam my little macro. I really feared that I would be kicked from every group from the start, but I couldn't honestly do it any other way. I would have felt like scum for rolling Need on every caster item, when who knew if it was an upgrade for someone. I didn't want to be that person who rolled Need, just because they could.

The results? Well, I did about 5 randoms in a row, and no one said anything mean or disparaging. I got a few "okay" or "that sounds fair". Even on one of the end bosses when all the items that dropped were caster items, I didn't get anyone giving me gruff. I am relieved. I know I will probably get that one group that can't stand the idea of me doing this, but knowing that most probably won't mind has made me feel a lot better about it. Edited to add: I did the first dungeon today where someone had an issue. They were upset cause it would mean less shard opportunities, since we had a Disenchanter in the group. I don't know if they were the Enchanter or not, but I told them that anything I won, I would gladly give to them for disenchanting. They didn't reply so I assumed they were okay with it, and I didn't have to roll Need anyway.

Here is the kicker. In the first group I chose to try this with, on the first item that dropped that I could roll Need on, I rolled a 99. I will be glad when I am done with this one.