Loot, DKP and Guild Bank
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Raids & Loot While the following loot rules may seem long and complex, they are designed to be as fair as possible. Loot is at the heart of many disputes that divide and even destroy a guild. The idea here is to fairly reward dropped items, crafted items, and enchantments based on raid and group participation and to cover as many contingencies as possible without becoming overwhelmed with details. What is DKP? DKP a sort of guild currency used to determine whom loot is awarded to on guild raids. As you attend more raids, you earn more DKP. When you have the winning bid on an item that dropped, you receive the item and the amount of DKP you bid is subtracted from your DKP total. DKP Bidding System The DKP Bidding system is designed to allow players to bid DKP for drops. That way, the natural supply and demand of dropped items determine how valuable an item is in a given raid or group. All items will be given a base line starting DKP bid value based on quality and item type. When an item drops, the raid leader will announce the starting bid and all interested parties that can utilize the item will bid for it. Whoever bids the highest for the item, wins it. This allows newer members to get geared up quickly with gear that the veterans already have without accumulating a heavy DKP debt. Items that no one is willing to bid on will be disenchanted. You cannot bid more DKP than you have unless it's a starting bid and no one else is interested. If only 2 people are interested in an item and neither has sufficient DKP for the starting bid, then the person with the most DKP wins. Players are allowed to go as negative as they want as long as no one else is interested in the items up for bidding. Players with negative DKP cannot purchase items from the bank for DKP, and any player with positive DKP can overwrite a bid made by the player with negative DKP. Bidding Process The mechanics of the bidding are as follows. The raid leader will link the item in the raid channel and announce the starting bid. The first person with a bid in the channel gets the starting bid. The leader will moderate the bidding determining who the next bidder is for each raise. The minimum bid raise is always 1 DKP. If an item should come under high demand by players at different levels of membership, the Loot Council may be asked to step in to settle the dispute and award the item to the most in need player. Loot council will only be used in extreme situations and should not be considered as the answer to all loot distribution. "Ninja Looting" Looting a Bind on Pickup item or looting a Bind on Equip and equipping the item out of turn, or "ninja-looting," will not be tolerated in any form whether accidental or intentional. Initial infractions will result in DKP penalties being assessed based on the severity of the incident. Repeated incidents will result in being removed from the guild. No Arbitrary Class Restrictions on Bidding If you can use an item and you have the DKP, then you can bid on it. This guild does not make arbitrary restrictions on what class should have an item. For example, any class that can wield a Mallet of the Tides can use it provided they spend the DKP. When you make arbitrary class restrictions on items, you always have differences of opinions and run the risk of unfairly favoring certain classes or roles. Accumulating DKP on Raids There are 2 ways of earning DKP. The normal 25 main-only raids award DKP hourly. This is tracked and awarded by a guild officer. For off night raids or alt raids, a zero-sum system scaled to time is used. The raid leader tracks all the items DKP was spent for and divides that amount of DKP among the raid members scaled for time. The second way of earning DKP is by being on the wait list for a 25-man raid. While on the wait list, members must have their characters either prepared to join the raid immediately. Wait-listed players are allowed to do whatever they wish while waiting for a raid spot to open as long as they give the raid means to contact them. Once a player is called into the raid, he or she must be inside the instance within a few minutes or forfeit any DKP earned on the wait list. Likewise, members wishing to leave the wait list must contact the list holder and inform her or him as such or forfeit any DKP earned on the wait list. If, at the end of a raid, a member on the wait list cannot be found or contacted, that member may lose all DKP earned since the last time he or she was seen online or contacted, or even all of it. Upgrade Bidding (LEGACY POLICY) As stated previously, all items available to purchase using DKP have a minimum bid price. However, to encourage players to buy lower-tiered items, players who already own a tiered item that is listed as available for DKP can start the bidding on a higher-tiered item at a reduced price. Bidding proceeds as normal, but a player who does not own the lower-tiered piece must bid, at minimum, the full price of the item to become the high bidder. DKP is Player Specific DKP is accumulated by the player, not by the character. Players with access to multiple level 80 characters accumulate DKP in a single pool, which is associated with the name of their declared main character. The DKP may be spent on any of their guilded level 80 characters, with restrictions equal to those of a recruit/provisional member. |