Raiding and Looting with Alts…
Hey guys! Look at this, 2 blog posts in as many days. Who’d have thunk it.
So last night the 25 man raid was cancelled due to lack of healers signed up, so one of the guildies put a run together for Zul’Aman.
The group formed and they needed 1 more dps so I said I’d come – So there I am, having to decide what level 70 to take:
Firelight – Fire doesn’t need anything from there, he doesn’t need badges for anything really.
Gwindle – Gwindle is Feral at the mo, and the group didnt need tanks.
Starslayer – This guy has just over 1000 spell damage and needed some badges to finally get rid of that off-hand he had from UBRS (*blush*)
So i asked if I could bring my ‘lock and off we went – i grabbed some consumables from the AH and got summoned to the Instance.
First boss dropped some nice spell damage bracers which i won the roll for, but was suggested by our Raid Leader to let a main have them that needed them…so i did…
Another 2 bosses dropped suitable gear for my Warlock, and I gave it up for the mains that were there.
The question is – was it fair? Should I have stuck my neck out and said I wanted the gear as i was there doing as much work as the other guys…surely i deserved some rewards too?
We downed the last boss with ease with 9 people as one of the guys was locked out of the area and unable to participate…quite an achievement given the fact that there were a few alts in there.
I’m really hoping next week we can get back into Black Temple and clear the place to Mother Shiraz. Firelight now has all his shadow resistance gear and is ready to go in there and kick Mother’s demonic butt!
3 Responses so far
Anonymous
August 1st, 2008
2:57 pm
Hiya, I have had a similar situation where our guild rulls are clear that a main gets items over an alt. But we do not apply this to 10 mans. I have passed on a cloth helm on my Mage for a Shadow Preist, but that would not have been enforced. I think its fair only if people are clear before hand.
Anonymous
August 1st, 2008
11:38 pm
As what I understand from your post is that you asked to bring your Alt character instead of your Main character.
Our raid rules are clear on this when it comes to deviding loot: Main characters over Alt characters, Main specs over Off specs.
Looking to the guild as a whole it is also normal that they want to gear up as many Main characters as possible instead of gearing up all Alt characters played by one person. After all, in a 25-mans you need 25 people playing 25 characters to fill up the raid slots. Having 24 “undergeared” Mains and 1 full geared Main who also has 2 or 3 full geared Alts makes no sense.
So, reading your blog I would say that your RL made the right decision in handing the loot to a Main instead of an Alt.
But.. yes there is a but… in the case that you where asked by the RL to bring an Alt, you will be granted the same rights as the Mains when rolling for loot.
That situation is also covered by our raid rules. After all it was not your choice to bring the Alt in the first place but where asked by the RL to do so.
In our guild most Alts will eventually give the loot to the Main characters anyway as guild wise it is more logic when looking for progression. But that all depends on the person who plays the Alt.
Regards,
ElemmÃrë – Protection Paladin
Dawn of Osiris – Doomhammer EU
Alex - aka Firelight
August 4th, 2008
3:19 pm
I think the main reason that I was moaning about it was that all they were doing the whole raid was complaining that I wasnt doing as much DPS as i should have been.
After the 3 or 4th boss I had gotten into the groove and fixed what i was doing wrong and things got better. But why moan at me when my gear isnt that good (season 2/quest blues/some kara epics)
What I was getting at was in karazhan we /roll for loot.
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