The current raiding scene in the Alliance PVE cluster is a disgrace.
Current problems:
- Too many guilds for the server population.
The majority of this server consists on extremely casual players that quit from time to time and rarely commit to the goals they might have set in this game. Guilds here have lots of members but are unable to fill raids by themselves, forcing them to bring any available guild member or outsider, despite being ready to raid or not.
- Only few guilds are able to clear Naxx
Thatâs right, after more than 2 years of server separation, we still only have 2 or 3 guilds that is capable of clearing Naxx, and only one can do it in a single raid.
- Abusive pugs
Since the majority of guilds canât fill their raids, they are forced to ask outsiders, normally players from other guilds. Nothing wrong here, but when you read these guilds loot rules your jaw just drop from the extensive abuse that is going on and for my surprise, people donât seem to care at all. The most extreme examples can be from having the best items under loot council in a SR run while using outsiders to simply have best in slot items on hard reserve. In short, these guilds needs the outsiders to fill their raids and to reach success, but donât treat them as equal when it comes to loot, which makes it impossible for geared people to even consider joining these events. Outsiders join these raids a couple of times because they didnât even bother to read the loot rules, they see how it work and the amount of abuse and then they ask themselves âwhat am I doing here?â.
The animosity for outside players is high, and yet they are so needed to clear raids.
Many of the players here are fed up with corrupted loot council guilds and shady DKP/EPGP systems where people are always trying to find exploits, and this is why we need GDKP as soon as possible if we want the server to grow instead of being an empty server where people just raidlog or quit because there is nothing going on.
Why GDKP?
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GDKP is exactly like DKP, but instead of awarding points to a spreadsheet or addon, they are added to your wallet. You raid more, you get more gold, the more gold you get, the more chances you have to win bids for loot. Simple.
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In a SR run the raid organizer gets little to nothing from it unless there are some items on hard reserve, which will decrease the interest on that event. At most they can take the trash items including cores, idols, scraps and such, which has a substantial value. If the raid organizer has no motivation to continue, the raid event will eventually end.
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Players that donât need items from lower raids will rarely join a SR run because there is no incentive for them, sure they can have alts, but at some point they will not join those raids anymore.
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GDKP awards everyone in the raid, no exceptions. Normally the raid organizers take a 10% cut and the rest is divided between all players. Even if you didnât win any loot, you still get paid.
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In general, players that underperform, leave before the end or cause problems do not get paid, which is one of the best features of this system, making everybody to be at their best. How many raids did you join and saw so many people afking on trash and yet they had no penalty on loot. Personally I saw many of these slacking players winning rolls over players that were active the whole raid and it was not fair at all. Of course there are also good SR raids that have rules against slacking, but they were rarely implemented to avoid drama.
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GDKP keeps the server alive when it comes to activity. A Naxx raider can simply join a BWL GDKP run while not needing any loot and in less than one hour of effort he can get hundreds of gold that can be used in consumables for his Naxx guild run or simply keep the gold for other GDKP runs in which he might need to bid on gear. If a player has several alts, he can join GDKP with all of his alts and farm an insane amount of gold that he can later use to bid big items for a character he choses.
Is there a spot for pure SR raids?
There is but at the moment, in this server, there is not a single 40 man pug raid that has a loot system that treats everybody the same way.
Personally I like SR runs a lot but I also understand it is hard to keep up the motivation to lead them. Furthermore, the raids with abusive loot rules continue to fill their ranks and while this goes on, nothing will change. People need to stop signing to those events in order to make a change.
You as a single player, have more power than you think.
Why not just join a guild instead?
Most raids are extremely casual and the best ones here are just average overall with their own specific loot rules and with many items more or less sorted to a few players. If you think Iâm exaggerating just hop on those guilds discords and check out for yourself.
There are many players here that cannot fit all guilds schedules and demands and simply prefer to raid on their own. This is not about being selfish, it is about knowing your boundaries and not wanting to disappoint guilds, since many have people that put up so much effort for their community to work.
But GDKP attracts bots and gold sellers!
I see many just using this excuse to criticize GDKP when they lack intellect to see beyond and think for themselves.
Bots and gold sellers are against TOS and if they exist is because measures are not taken to remove them from the game, so it has nothing to do with GDKP.
I invite all of you make a level 1 on Pyrewood Village and do a â/who Stratholmeâ or â/who Dire Maulâ and see for yourself how many bots we already have without GDKP.
Many would say that most of the GDKP haters are just players that donât have time to farm gold and automatically assume others donât have as well and simply buy gold. Many would also say that this hate comes from them being jealous of how easy it is for some to get loot under GDKP system while they had to do a ton of runs to get the items they wanted.
Fun fact is most of these people never joined a GDKP and their opinion is based on what they have been told about it. Kind of how the world works today, sadly.
Personally I think there is room for every loot system and there should be no hostility between opinions, instead, people should raise their voices against the fact we still have so many bots and gold sellers in every single server of this game, because that is the real problem.