Was watching some podcasts about rwf and there was a lot of talk about splits. What are people doing when they split a raid? A way to funnel loot?
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Effectively yes!
The idea is that world first groups do a ton of grinding early on many alts, so that these alts can be brought into raid to trade whatever they get to a main character.
Imagine if you want a certain weapon on your pally, so 19 other pallies are brought in to give it to you. That’s a split. The most powerful aspect of it being that the world first guys are doing that level of funneling on like day 3 of each tier.
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Somethin’ like this?
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Still amazing. And still somehow makes me nervous to watch.
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I feel inadequate lol. Props to that kid
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Splits is using many alts and other players to fill raid slots with the goal of being able to funnel and trade all/most of the gear to a small subset of that group.
It’s an arms race on how insane they get with how many splits they want to do. Guilds started with just doing 4-5 and now they do about 40.
Echo this tier was doing even more shady things where their whole raid team would start a mythic+ key, each in their own 5 man group. Then they would leave to go into the raid right after starting the key while the other 4 finished the dungeon and if they won loot it would go into their mailbox while they were in the raid.
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It’s something you, as a normal human being, don’t need to worry about OP.
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Splits are tiny bottles of wine.
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I know I just enjoy the YouTube podcasts and following rwf and all the antics 
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So basically, they stack raid groups with a HUGE amount of alts that can be played at an effective level and have high-ilvl pieces, for the express purpose of being able to trade pieces of those slots to other classes. If Imfiredup’s most geared toon needs Antumbra (the Rygelon dagger), players like Jpc, Thd, and Trill would possibly play caster specs that are capable of trading a 272 Antumbra or better. Whoever gets the Antumbra trades it to Imfiredup.
One hypothetical example of a split run would be stacking a group full of DKs, Paladins, and Warriors that have looted a 272 or better 2H weapon, be they alts or random players willing to trade a 2H weapon to one of the top guilds’ mains for a large amount of gold. This drastically increases the odds of a player being able to loot the extremely powerful Jailer mace, which is subsequently traded to whatever one of these RWF guilds’ mains needs said weapon.
And it isn’t exactly something Blizzard is even remotely capable of stopping, because they’re still doing this with Personal Loot, restrictions and all.
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