Joel’s Scattered Thoughts

Loot distribution is one of those issues that keeps popping up in World of Warcraft.

I think the ideal system is some kind of totally impartial loot council where gear is assigned on a case by case basis for the good of the guild. Frankly I don’t trust myself to be that completely impartial. I know that if something dropped that would be any kind of upgrade of Jaimie, I would be tempted to just give it to her.

One possibility might be a random loot council. Select one person in guild to be the loot council chair. When a run starts, the chair rolls 2 (4?) times and the people in that spot in the raid are now the loot council, with the chair having the tiebreaker vote. When an item drops, those who want it for their main raiding spec whisper the chair with 1 and a link to their current item for that slot. Those who want it for their off spec whisper the chair with 2 and a link to their current item for that slot and spec. The council then assigns it on an as-needed basis with 1 having priority over 2. This has the advantage over a standard loot council of avoiding a loot council clique. Downsides are that it may be slow and you may get someone who can’t/won’t participate as one of the loot council. Alternatives would be to have multiple “static” members in the council.

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