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Old 06-01-2016, 09:42 AM
Cecily Cecily is offline
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Originally Posted by Swish [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
I think that's another issue for new players joining the party late here. There's a bunch of people who've been here for years who haven't changed guilds etc with more amassed DKP than you can imagine.

Want that necro pet focus item (or something else that drops once in a blue moon)? Naw, not happening.
That really wasn't a problem in Awakened because nice items go for alot of DKP. The absolute max was 8k and most higher end stockpiles are around 1.5k atm. Real nice stuff goes for about 3k. Nice stuff 1-1.5. Shit no one wants goes for 50-100ish. All blind DKP bids so the possibility of wasting your points is super high and potential for officer corruption is there too.

My biggest deal with them was the stranglehold on control over which of your characters could bid on something. They have mains and certified alts. Certs were sold to me as a second main by some people (not the case) and basically atm they are only eligible for Kunark tier junk none of my characters would want. DKP is a finite resource. Players should be able to decide for themselves how they want to budget their points across their own characters w/o mom or dad telling them who they can gear.

The problem DKP is it puts power into the player's hands. The problem with officers is certain types of people get off on having power over others. Therefore you have to maintain that control with things like zero tolerance for human emotion policies and heavy censorship in public involving heavy dkp sanctions and threats of no ST key consideration for 6 months.