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Comments about Looting Rules:

No changes have been made to our looting system. It's just been rewritten into an easier to read format. These looting guidelines promote retention of new players and fairness to pick-up guests. The reputation of the Circle of Elders can be tainted if these guidelines are not strictly followed. Please adhere to their intent so that our reputation as a fair and mature guild will be maintained.

Some might argue, the missing aspect to our looting system is lack of consideration to our senior / core / frequently playing members. Some guilds encourage preferential looting practices favoring these senior members. Senior / Core / frequently playing members are already rewarded by default in the frequency of instance invitations that they receive. Thus by default, they already have a greater chance to receive loot than those players who play less frequently. To offer additional favor would be unfair to the new recruits and pick-up guests we sometimes rely deeply upon for the success of an instance. All attending members of an instance have equal right to loot based on the guidelines.

Although these rules above are all that apply, please do what's best for the team:
Keep in mind... be kind -- you don't have to roll for an item for which you are eligible. Inspect the gear of your raid members... do you expect them to stick around? That person has your back! If they become stronger, the team becomes stronger and you will benefit greatly from this. If the item only offers you a slight improvement, but the item offers a monumental improvement to another, why not pass on the item to achieve a greater impact on the capability of the guild? Or perhaps you simply won 3 rolls this instance already and wish to share the wealth... but that's it for the kumbayah stuff. This is just a recommendation to show kindness to your fellow members. Obviously you have every right to loot on a item you're eligible for based upon the rules above (1-5) -- you spent 7 hours in the instance just like everyone else. Alts... mains -- it doesn't matter. But please consider these kind words strongly.

i'll check it out buddy, thanks -- just google suicide kings?

hmmmm... seems very interesting. it would work GREAT for people who are more about the guild... those that are more for the loot and rewards, they may think differently. Either way, our loots system seems towork pretty well. I'll look more into it though... see exactly how it works. Maybe I can modify it for new members / PUG members.

hehehe, ya, my sig is a tad outdated , well, actually, Og still is 70 hehe

hmmm, that would be lame eh?

agreed -- i do too, but it could always be improved / tweaked. Today I'm adding the following rules... to fix issues that have popped up lately...

--Elaborating on auto-invites for people who were rolled off for the same instance before
--Elaborating on the 50/50 rule for melee and ranged DPS for when there is a odd number of slots available.
--1 main spec Loot per boss, 1 Tier per raid, 3 main spec items per raid (unless items will be sharded).
--If already received your one main-spec item from a boss, you can not roll for off-spec items on the same boss (unless it will be sharded)
--Elaborating on looting rules for people who respec at the request of the raid leader for particular bosses (will be able to roll for both main spec and spec they switched to... but still must adhere to loot limits listed above)
--Changed healer req for 10/25 ULD to 2000
--Added req separately for Vault 2nd boss, OS+1, OS+2, and OS+3

alrighty -- the new rules have been posted. They mostly came from the forum meeting we had several months ago (Yes, it took me a while to update the rules -- sorry). Here's a link to that discussion:

http://thecircleofelders.com/topic/889?page=4

Also, a few of the changes came from yesterdays meeting where we covered raid formation limits on new raids... and whether or not we keep alts in the guild when people take their mains/alts out. Some of the rules are not in this thread, but various other rules threads that are in the Recruitment/Guild Policies room.