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Originally Posted by myriverse
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Not true. All things being equal is a bias towards a false equality. It benefits those who don't contribute as much over those that contribute a lot.
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/random does this naturally. More rolls = more wins. Adding weight to the dice is what bias is, it artificially favors a particular outcome. Guy shows up to more raids, on average, he's going to win more rolls so he's going to be awarded more for the more work put in. It's easy, it's fair. Guy farms DKP the same way other people farm platinum and now you've go someone deciding which rolls count and it's going to skew more heavily in favor to the DKP farmer than it otherwise would have. That's bias.
What you are saying is that someone who puts in more time in raids deserves more loot, but when you put the thumb on the scale like that, you are disproportionately favoring one outcome over another. The 80% attendance people acquire more than 80% of the loot, the 20% attenders, (who tend to make up 80% of the raid) get less than 20% of the loot. /random everything and the numbers work themselves out over time. Yes there are streaks, but spread it out over a year and it's more even handed than any DKP or Loot Council you can devise and it has the added bonus of giving everyone incentive to show up for raids
Does a person who spends 8 hours a day for a week at the sarnak fort deserve Hidden Bracer more than the guy who just strolls in and gets one immediately by luck alone? I'm sure both will recall times when they got incredibly lucky on an immediate drop and incredibly unlucky on a camp that took days to do. It's the same for the dice. I won two RBG's in pickup groups in a weekend, but lost out on Heiro at least twice with a 99. But for the time I put in Seb, I got a reasonable amount of loot. It's the exact same with raids. Show up to the same raids every week for 52 weeks a year and you're going to get your share of picks with winning rolls.
Besides, there's nothing stopping someone from trading for rolls if they want an edge. They can outright buy a roll, promise to give someone a roll for a particular item if they give you a particular roll for a different item, etc. But in the end it still gives Joe Warmbody, who is every bit as important to making the raid work as 80% attendance DKP Jim a fair shake. It'd certainly do a lot to alleviate the turnover most raiding guilds face