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Old 03-14-2015, 03:48 PM
Daldaen Daldaen is offline
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Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
DKP always felt completely self centered and greedy. It felt that way on live. It absolutely was that way in FE. I don't care for it. I spend too much time plotting and manipulating the system in my favor when I'd rather just play and put in for an item occasionally.
DKP was the only way for me to actually plan out my gear and prioritize.

Certain items are vastly more valuable to me than others. And I would save DKP for them and spend it accordingly. With a Loot Council, I can't really explain that other than in the single tell I send the people. If the Druid VP Robe weren't tradeable I would save all my DKP for it and burn it all on that, for example. Would abstain from plenty of other drops just to make sure I am guaranteed that drop if it drops.

DKP Systems are also nice because you have a finite amount you can work with so you can't hoard all the loots. Some (retarded) systems would award the item to the person with the highest DKP total at a fixed price. These players ended up being able to win entire expansions of BIS without being unthroned from their top DKP slot. But the free-bid systems without fixed amounts worked pretty well in my experience.

A little oversight to prevent complete free-market retardation was nice (IE preventing BIS Daggers from going to rangers, and BIS aggro weapons from going to rogues, etc.) and a little bit of a progression focus when expansions released (warrior MTs get priority), and DKP systems work well.