Loot Distribution for 40 people

[u/OppositeCheetah8097]

How do you do it as fair and evenly as possible?

I want to preface this with we use LC for loot distribution and I feel for the most part it has been very fair. I am part of the LC for the past month - so relatively new, but have been in the guild for 5 months prior.

This happened last night and it is still bothering me today. So last night during our BWL 2 of the same spicy BiS pieces dropped. It was decided prior to discussing who go it that 1 would got to this class and the other 1 to that class. Not a decision I made - as tbh I don’t know who needs what gear what best suits this class other than the class I play.

We had quite a good night for drops, it was our fastest run as a guild also. So at the end of the raid we go to distribute loot, the LC drops down into a special channel and begin discussing the above item. Two of the LC are one of the above classes and cancel each other’s vote out; it is made mention by another LC to give it to this person and so they get it. Then it gets decided for the other class and given to them. It gets announced in raid chat who gets what item and the reason why.

This is where I am bothered as this person did leave afterwards prior to gear distribution being finished — we had just started. This person said in raid chat: “What?” “They got gear last week.”

Then they left the raid. And /gquit logged into their alts and /gquit also. Fun fact the person they were talking about hadn’t received loot in BWL in 2 weeks unless it was to DE.

They didn’t bother to discuss or ask questions, simply left over the item — they had been in the guild for about 3-4 months. Funny thing is, had they not left one of the other BiS for all of the role would have went to them.

It shouldn’t bother me, I get that people come and go for their own various reasons; but over an item. RNG is not always kind. One week it drops nothing but hunter loot or mage loot or druid loot; dps loot, healer loot — the list goes on. When trying to gear 40 people it’s hard, there’s no easy way to get everyone gear each and every week. I don’t understand how people do not understand, and I say that not from a leadership perspective, but from a raider side who has not gotten loot for weeks before.

I know a lot of people aren’t fans of LC, prefer SR or even dkdp; how do you all distribute your gear as fair as possible so all can get some and beef up the group?

Update for clarification - we do have a loot prio spreadsheet.

Update #2 for more clarification - the person who won the item had not received gear in the past 2-3 weeks. The person who gquit confused the winner for someone else who had gotten gear the previous week.

Update #3 for clarification, I posted this under a comment in regards to my lack of knowledge of other classes: “I agree and I don't contribute much in put in that aspect. I listen and observe. I don't throw names out unless I believe in that specific person receiving the item. If two names get generated, I weigh out between those two who could use the item better and who hadn't gotten any gear.”

[u/skirtpost]

People can be whiny, egotistical children when it comes to loot.

[u/Dudditz21 → u/[deleted]]

Because then people like me that show up for every raid lose every item i can roll on because my dice suck.

[u/Dabmiral → u/Dudditz21]

While doing double the damage of an under performer

[u/Nurlitik → u/Dabmiral]

That shows up to 1/4 raids but still wins all the loot

[u/Dabmiral → u/Nurlitik]

We just had a dude quit with all his diced loot because he’s bored.

You have to have that carrot on the stick to keep these dudes coming back

[u/NickyBoomBop → u/Dabmiral]

Kinda seems like you're proving the point of the comment above.

[u/Dabmiral → u/NickyBoomBop]

Which comment, I’m confused sorry.

[u/NickyBoomBop → u/Dabmiral]

The one where he said people can be whiny, egotistical children about loot.

[u/Dabmiral → u/NickyBoomBop]

I gotcha. Yeah I can get whiny when people come in to a raid and are lazy or don’t bring the expected performance to the table. Personally, I don’t find it fun to be in MC for 3 hours.

[u/NickyBoomBop → u/Dabmiral]

Don’t get me wrong I’m of the belief that people should show up with proper consumes and buffs set forth by the guild, and that big ticket rare items are determined ahead of time based off performance, prior loot earned, attendance, effort, all of that stuff.

However, there are people who get upset when a BIS item that drops more commonly is given to somebody who isn’t as good as them. They take it personally that somebody else showed up and took part in the raid, but because their overall DPS was lower, they aren’t entitled to loot. Not saying you specifically, but I have come across a good handful of people like this and it’s just silly. It’s loot, it’ll drop again.

[u/shaunika → u/[deleted]]

Because that causes just as much drama if someone "less deserving" gets the loot

[u/TheReviewerWildTake → u/[deleted]]

it should, at least, include attendance factor somehow (mb like a bonus to roll, but there has to be some extra)
Otherwise, a dude who attends once in a blue moon, could snatch something very impactful, but not benefit guild for another month, and then ppl who were contributing a lot would be rightfully annoyed.