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worldofmatticus.com - 12/4/2008

Loot Council: First Raid

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Monday night was Conquest’s first mostly-guild Naxx 25, and we premiered our Loot Council system for guildies and pugs alike. I think that we successfully distributed loot in a fair way, but I have to say that it added to the tension factor of raiding for me. First, the rules for ...

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Amava Knows Aggro:  Loot Council - seeing both sides

World of Matticus:  Why Loot Council, Matticus?

• EmilyBlips

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  Seems like a long process, but it's probably a lot fairer to hash it out like this.

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Loot Council - seeing both sides
Amava Knows Aggro — Conquest uses Loot Council for distributing the wonderful shinies that drop during raids. Read over the GM's description of the guild, and also one of the Council member's reflections on our first raid if you're so inclined to get some background. To sum up: Loot Council distributes the wealth to benefit the raid the most. Loot is also used as a reward for all the nice behaviors we like in our raiders such as timeliness, lack of inappropriate afk-ism, proper gear care taking, using consumables, etc. When epics drop, members indicate a preference, and then the Council takes a moment to deliberate and then reward the ...

Why Loot Council, Matticus?
World of Matticus — ... This statement was, of course, in regards to a post Syd wrote earlier about her early experience with the implementation of Loot Council. Like good systems and bad systems, there are good people and bad people. Power, when used for good, can be used for great thing. When used for bad, can lead to not so great things. ...

Never Second Guess Yourself
World of Matticus — ... Include the human element. Having a clause that allows a group of players to override something will help with progression. If the guild is more based towards fairness and equality, then don’t bother. I’ve written about loot posts in the past. I firmly favor looting gear to the people who will get the most use out of it instead of passing it to another player where it’s only going to collect dust because they never use that spec. Why did they get it? Because a chart or a list of numbers demanded that it be so. We can’t control item drops. We can only control who it goes ...