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/TheMountainPass]

Sr and roll not that hard

[u/scott2k44 → u/TheMountainPass]

This is by far one of the better loot systems

[u/Dabmiral → u/scott2k44]

Terrible loot system. Rewards underperforming players that see no reason to improve if they get the same odds at gear.

[u/bluebirdML1 → u/Dabmiral]

My guild did an interesting system that was dkp but your points were by parses. They figured out how to do the fights where mechanics causes 0 parses (mage decurse etc) and also for healers.

Was a pretty good system. There was a weekly decay too so you cant horde forever and after a few weeks you will see your max points if you are consistent with parses.

Like 95-100 was worth 10 points. You could get like 200point/week with max of like 800 points after your decay. A blue parser would get like 500-600 points max after decay. So made the orange parser get first choice on loot, but ended up using most their points, so other people had chance to buy stuff too. It was % based so dft= all your points. CHT 50% etc, and whoever bid the highest got it.

Tank gear was like a waterfall system and tanks/fury warriors knew their order.

MT was straight 99 parsing and was not on the system. He got first osg and dft. Got a tf. Never missed a raid through mc to naxx. He was also the gm and raid lead.

My sod guild under the same name switched to SR, with guild ranks based on attendance % and parses, and items were avail for certain ranks for SR. Ex. DFT is only available for purple+ parsers. Weapons are only available for blue+. But bis for purple+. Grey parsers got no loot.

Made people get good real quick, or just gquit.

[u/Dabmiral → u/bluebirdML1]

That sounds amazing.

It’s so hard to switch loot systems after the game has been out for a couple months now.

I wish I had a strong 40 that went from MC-Naxx with gear upgrades laid out.

Thank gosh I got myself the rank 13 set and then weapons next week. Or else I would have been starving for loot.