Never run with a partial guild.
The game needs personal loot.
Theres a blacklist and remember me addon.
I use blacklist on raid leads that steal loot or pass it out unfairly, so it reminds me later on if I end up in a raid with them again I can just call them out or leave the raid.
I have remember me to remember players I had a great time with, so if I end up seeing them again or end up in a group with them I can say, “yoooooo”.
They designed it the way it was in 2004 because they were better options than say, the system awarding an item to a random player, the person who did the most damage or the fastest clicker.
Remember, original wow pulled in a ton of people because of qol advances for more casual play.
But the drama is entertaining sometimes.
See you next phase
They designed it that way because it was an actual rpg back then. Not everything had to be perfectly tuned and ideal for every spec. Item stats were random. People didn’t obsess over min/maxing every little variable. It was just a game.
I know that’s impossible for players to fathom these days.
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And nothing of value was lost!
Premade run in the last reset before P2 got baited into typing loot rules into chat specifically.
“All items will be rolled on by people that can use them? → Non ML answers → Sorry I need the masterlooter to confirm please → RL/ML Yes”
“The highest roller that can equip the item will win the item? → Yes”
“In terms of “MS>OS” you are referring to “main spec” specifically, and the player’s “main spec” is the role they’re performing here? → Yes”
"No items will be taken, or are considered “Hard Reserved? → Yes”
ML/RL Warrior proceeds to ninja 2h away from away from a Ret, and 2H tank Ret. Claims he needs it “to level with, sry, more important for their guild that he hits 40 asap for Gnomer he’s their main tank”
Now every single time I log on their entire guild is hard-crying at me because their “IRL friend got banned for 6 months because of me” and now their 5man grind party for dungeons is ruined. Now they can’t raid Gnomer because they don’t want to raid without him and he’s gonna miss the next 2 phases of SOD - like that’s my problem.
The trick is make 100% certain the master looter has to state that all items will be rolled on, no items are reserved, force them to clarify what “MS > OS” means, and that the highest roller will receive the item. It alleviates all grey area/ambiguity when petitioned.
Not raid leader. Not friend of them. Not guildmate. Not person with assist. The person with masterlooter must state the rules.
OP - I just want GDKP and posting this…
Then you could say AC, EQ and DAOC were more of an actual game than WOW was, since progress had nothing to do with it.
Yeah I feel you. I went to a GDKP once. I didn’t buy anything, but at least I was going to get gold aka something for my time and effort in the raid. To my surprise when it came time for my payout the raid leader just logged off with all the gold! F this game
If members of the guild are contacting you every time you log on you can report the guild to Blizzard explaining that you keep blocking members of the guild but they get new people to message you, and the people doing it will get their own vacation from WoW. Might take you haaving to elevate the ticket beyond the canned response of the initial autogenerated here is the ignore feature, use it.
Wah wah.
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Most guilds have multiple raid teams that raid on different days and times. And by multiple I mean 6-10+. Seems like if you don’t have a lot of time, a guild is probably exactly what you need. Multiple different time slots to choose from and quick, no nonsense group formation and loot distribution.