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Originally Posted by mimixownzall
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Ok, so your merit system is based off of attendance, right? Doesn't DKP, in essence, distribute out points based on participation?
They are basically the same thing.
If someone wants to pass up 2 expansions worth of loot in order to get one specific item, that is his choice; meanwhile, everyone else is gearing up.
Calling the DKP system is, as a whole, completely stupid based on one or two unlikely (yet not impossible) examples is, in itself, asinine. Any system can be abused, even a merit system.
My most successful system was basically a merit system. We had a loot council that based loot distribution on attendance, attitude, work ethic ect.
DKP is still a viable way to distribute loot.
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Merit is a lot more flexible. It's not just "I saved the most points and I'm the right class so I can get any loot I want." Merit allows you to reward loot to the specific players that benefit the guild as a whole. I've even seen players denied loot for passing on everything for months to try to get 1 super item. As long as you have competent leadership, one person or a council rewarding loot is always going to end up with a stronger raid force than any sort of point-based system.