I started to get back into WOW again after taking a much needed break from leading or really doing much of anything in-game. From my point of view I’m watching the guild I built crumble as the new guildmaster flails in frustration over the same things I flailed at. And the one thing I realized: so many people want to be officers but they don’t want responsability and nobody wants to be Guild Master.

I wish I could contribute to this blog, but I guess my email got tucked away with all the spam.

http://code.google.com/p/epgp/

Basically the system works as follows: you gain Effort Points for working towards the guild’s goals (nearly the same as DKP). But then when you get loot, you gain Gear Points based on the add-on’s calculations. The add-on calculates an items level, stats and location (head, hand, finger, weapon) and gives it a point value.

So who gets priority for the next piece of loot that drops?

Priority = Effort / Gear

Whoever has higher priority gets the loot if they want it. No bidding, just ask for tells. It works really well when trying to prevent someone from getting lots of DKP then dumping it all in one night. Using a DKP system, someone saved up a lot of points from coming to all of our MC raids and then was absent from all of our BWL raids. He came along during one of our full BWL clears (while we were working on AQ40) and because he hadn’t spent a dime, was able to outbid everyone for nearly everything that dropped that night.