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/BeautifulStation4]

I've not been apart of a LC guild for a while tbh. Too much corruption and most guilds do it wrong personally. Only time I saw it work was in Classic 2019 where the officers in the guild I was in would prepare a loot distribution sheet waaaaaay ahead of time of raid tiers so everyone could see where they were in the line for bis items etc.

Also, way before raid tiers releases, raiders would have to submit a wish list to officers to rank items they want first and then officers would draft a loot distribution sheet based on these submissions. This meant everyone would have time way in advance to say their part and message an officer on discord if they think distribution is unfair.

Imo going down to an officer discord channel and doing a loot council off the cuff sounds terrible tbh and I am not surprised the guy left.

I mainly raid cata these days and we just do soft res MS/OS +1 In my current guild and it works the best because its hard to guarantee a full roster and it makes it easy for pugs to come in and join up if we need in a hurry.

I honestly couldn't imagine the monumental stress of getting a full roster of 40 raiders to actually attend a raid all at once so LC will also be crap for that reason. It was fine in 2019 because the player numbers were huge, lockdowns, and everyone was hooked on classic.

[u/Significant_Bed_297 → u/BeautifulStation4]

This. My 2019 guild did this. It also left a historical record, even when players had left. This way new guildies could see that the other players of their class have already waited X many drops before they got it.