Alright. In Classic Naxxramas I traded loot priority on everything so that I could have Corrupted Ashbringer. It didn’t drop, at all.
Through TBCC I started offering guildies some gold for a quick 4hm run after raid night, I got my sword 3 weeks before the pre-patch. If it hadn’t dropped that, I’d have only had 2 more resets to get it before it was gone forever.
…Still cost me 25k in guildy bribes. 100% worth it.
Even if I’d gone GDKP i wouldn’t have had anything! just never saw the loot to even roll on (apart from the Noth boots) but gratz on the eventual drop! haha
Wouldn’t have needed to offer people gold to come back to old content with me if it bloody dropped within the 6 months of us farming Naxxramas during Classic.
Even though raiding ( in a semi-casual way ) is the only thing I enjoy doing in this game, I am now desensitized about it, and especially loot - not having fun anymore.
I went through 10 weeks in Naxx without a single upgrade ( 8-9 pieces away from BiS, ) and the couple times I’ve seen something I wanted it was so heavily contested that my /hobo 19 couldn’t joust against the /god 98 rolls. I got The Turning Tide the week before Ulduar patch.
Last night on Ulduar 10, all it dropped was mail and plate, to the point the warrior got decked with 6 upgrades, and everyone else just had to shrug it.
If anything, this loot tables make me less a loot ho because I clearly don’t care about it anymore. I don’t even bother running to the boss to see what dropped because even if I can use it, it’ll be so heavily contested I won’t get it anyways.
If you focus only on BiS, some of it has less than a 5% drop and way too many classes, who consider it being BiS as well. Now if you run static roster of raiders every week someone getting BiS item makes your chances of getting it next time higher.
Split raids solve this by doubling amount of loot available, however adding more complexity in guild roster and loot management.
Or you go to GDKP and pay absurd amount of gold for any BiS.