All Hail The Queen

[YendorLootmonkey]

Just spitballing this... what if the server rules were modified so that for raid targets, whichever guild has the first person (not pet) to die to the mob when it spawns claims the mob and has X amount of seconds to engage it before it becomes FFA?

If the first thing the mob does is deathtouch someone, then clearly that guild has "First to Die" rights.

If the mob spawns and one-shots someone with melee first before the deathtouch, we can see that happen and then that guild has "First to Die" rights.

The major obstacle is that we, as players, can't interpret FTE without the help of a GM. We can, however, see who had First Death. You can play all sorts of games if you want... keep players at 1 HP for low HP aggro, sit them down, stare at space and cycle Target Nearest and Auto-Attack... whatever you think works, but in the end, when the mob spawns and there's more than one raid force within aggro radius, whoever eats the first death.

Or is there some rules-lawyering around that I haven't considered?