It would totally eliminate rolling and arguments on who needs what and people acting up and leaving in the middle of an instance leaving the rest of us needing help to advance further.

That’s the sort of system I would like to see too. There does need to be a way to make sure that the loot dropped is suitable to at least one of the players in the group. It wouldn’t be hard to draw the loot table from the available classes. Increasing the number of drops would be nice too.

And it is not hard to adjust loot for the classes that are present. It is pretty ridiculous to run a full instance and only ever see paladin items drop when there is no paladin to equip them. Blizzard already does something similar with high level patterns. Only engineers see high level engineer plans. They could quadruple the number of items that drop from all bosses and only those classes that can use them would actually see and get to roll on the drops.

WoW needs to make more class specific gear as you say – which can only be worn by one class, this would stop druids and hunters stealing my rogue gear

On a different note i dropped leatherworking last night as it just wasnt viable in making money, took up enchanting and have grinded up to 126 in one night. Still a few trips to the deadmines and the ilk but its alot easier than i expected…… being lvl 70 helps of course.

There’s a couple of ways you could do that. You could have separate loot rules for each class, so that paladins always get paladin gear, rogues always get rogue gear and so on. Or you could use a multiplier on the loot table to dramatically increase the odds of getting gear for the class.

I like the second method better since it doesn’t completely eliminate the drops of gear that can’t be used, but still gives a much better chance for the player to get what they want. Players may still need to go to a dungeon a few times, but far less than they need to now. And the ‘worthless’ gear can be sold, auctioned if non BoP, or disenchanted.

There’s a couple of ways you could do that. You could have separate loot rules for each class, so that paladins always get paladin gear, rogues always get rogue gear and so on. Or you could use a multiplier on the loot table to dramatically increase the odds of getting gear for the class.

I like the second method better since it doesn’t completely eliminate the drops of gear that can’t be used, but still gives a much better chance for the player to get what they want. Players may still need to go to a dungeon a few times, but far less than they need to now. And the ‘worthless’ gear can be sold, auctioned if non BoP, or disenchanted.