Wednesday, April 8, 2009

All is fair in love and WarCraft…

No not really But I try to be as fair as possible. With the new DKP system I have some concerns come up (mainly from Shawna) that it isn’t completely fair to those who don’t play as much as others.

Now I don’t claim that it is the perfect system and it does favor those who play more often, but the point is to reward those who participate more.

But as we are a casual guild I don’t think this will become a real problem. We are only planning 1 raid per week witch should be doable for almost everyone.

But wait isn’t there only room for 10 people?? What if there is no room for me? This is what I thought about the most because it’s a real problem, if I could I would bring everyone that wanted to come. The people who are selected are based off of who is on time and if we need healers, tanks or dps. If for what ever reason your not selected to come to a run know that it isn’t because of anything you’ve done (unless your late) and that it’s only because we can’t take more than 10.  Anyone who isn’t selected to go on a raid but is ready and willing to go will get a set amount of DKP and will be guaranteed a spot in the next raid. (Remember that this is void if your late.)

I am going to try to keep the point system in low numbers each point will be worth more but you won’t have other member stocking thousands of points so it becomes impossible for others to win bids.

By giving priority to gear by certain classes and specs reduces competition in bids so your less likely to have to compete with others over gear. So people who can only wear cloth won’t have to compete with people who wear leather or plate and those who can wear leather will have priority over leather. Some classes benefit more from spirit than others namely druids, priests, mages, warlocks. where shamans and paladins don’t. Those who benefit more from spirit will have priority over those gear and the others will have priority over gear with MP5. (I will make a chart with all the classes and specs to show who gets priority over what gear.) but this doesn’t mean that if your a healing pally that you won’t get any cloth healing gear it just means that others who don’t have the chance to get plate healing gear will have first dibs on the cloth.

Main spec will always get priority over off spec gear. But this brings up dual spec, with the new dual spec system in the next patch you can swap your talents back and forth on a whim will little penalty. Witch means that your main spec could be DPS but your off spec is tank. As of our runs and priority we will consider what ever spec your using during the run as your main spec. I’ll try not to make you use your off spec more than you want to.

As for the time and day of the raid it is 8pm on Saturdays but I will re-evaluate the day to accommodate as many people as possible. You should expect a letter from me some time with a form or something so you can indicate your times your available for runs.

Remember this is to be fair as possible because I want to give people who participate more of a chance to get gear over those who don’t and to encourage people to participate more. because the random roll system is about as fair of a game as paper rock scissors is.

Clark

AKA: Khagra your guild leader

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