| A long time ago, I joined a guild that was relatively old and established. It was a DKP guild. I had pretty bad equipment, but that didnt bother me that much, and I've never considered myself a loot whore.
The guild also had some policies that sounded fair, like you dont earn DKP for the first month things like that.
I never missed a single raid with this guild for 2 months.
They often hit several raid targets a night, including stuff that was now easily farmable and hit a lot of stuff which very very few people in the guild wanted or needed. Since my equipment was a good deal worse than anyone elses, much of the stuff was still an upgrade for me.
I think there were a total of 28 upgrades to my equipment that dropped that the guild let rot in the first 2 months I raided with them, some of them VERY siginificant upgrades. I simply never had the DKP to buy them.
This made me, a person who normally doesnt give a shit about loot, quite resentfull towards the guild. They would rather have stuff rot than upgrade their guldie so that they will be more useful to the guild. It just made me *feel* bad.
I totally 'get' the statement about having to let stuff rot in order to make sure the DKP system retains true value and meaningfullness, but at the same time, I know how that situation made me feel. |