DKP 2.0!

"As if raids weren't stressful enough, now you're telling me that the loot point system is going to change? You've gotta be kidding me!"

The current loot point system in the guild was developed in April 2008 as we were progressing through Karazhan. There have been minor changes to this system since then, but there are big changes on the horizon.

The current loot system is largely based on raid participation, i.e. the more you participate the more points you get. This system has served us well throughout BC and the beginning of WOTLK, but there is a growing, cautious consensus among guild officers that it is time to change the looting scheme to a merit-based looting scheme, which means that points would be based on accomplishments (boss kills, boss attempts, etc.).

The reasons for this change are numerous and beyond the reach of this blog entry, however it's obvious that this change will have significant effects on all raiders. In order to experiment and study how this change will effect raiders the guild officers have approved a motion that would allow for certain 25-man raids to award points based on an experimental system based on boss kills (and for certain high-difficulty runs to award small compensation for wipes).

The first experimental 25-man raid will be on April 12, 2009. There will be selected experimental runs for the rest of the month, while the rest of the runs will use the conventional participation system. By May, if everything works ok, I'm hoping that our 10 and 25-man runs will be fully converted to the new dkp model. I'm sure there's going to be thousands of questions, so be patient as I try to listen, address concerns, and plan for the future.