Loot

We ask everyone to list their loot preferences on wowaudit and keep their loot needs up to date. We also ask that all DPS players complete a weekly droptimizer sim at max item level with settings specified on wowaudit (usually 5 or 7 min Patchwerk), which should also be submitted through wowaudit.

In game, loot is assigned through loot council – please check Addons to ensure you have the necessary addons to manage this.

The loot addon will automatically pass on items, allowing them to be picked up by the loot master, who will ask you to select from several options for each item.

The options are broadly the same in both readycheck and in-game:

Loot options

• "Best in slot" – this is an item you will wear for essentially every boss in the raid. Hopefully goes without saying that only a single item per slot should be tagged “best in slot”. If you wear a crafted item in this slot, or your best item comes from outside the raid, no item should be tagged BIS. If there’s a very good reason you need multiple sets (e.g. a single target build and an aoe build), you can DM an officer to explain, but you’re only likely to get one item at an initially elevated priority in that slot.
• "Major upgrade" is relative to what you currently have. This should be an upgrade we’ll be able to see in the meters a reasonable DPS bump minimum for DPS mains (or rough equivalent performance boost for tanks and healers).
• "Minor upgrade" is for any performance-improving item which doesn’t meet the bar for being “major” – stat improvements, rolls for tertiary on tier, etc.
• "Raid offspec" is for offspecs you’re going to play in the raid. For example, if an outlaw rogue plans to play sub for a boss, daggers could be a raid offspec pick. You should only pick this option if there’s a clear use case of a boss where you’ll gain a meaningful benefit from playing a different spec.
• "Non-raid offspec" is for other offspec gear, e.g. gear you would use for M+, PvP, or similar. Transmog gear is not non-raid offspec gear – there’s a transmog button in the addon, but we aren’t looking to capture data about it here.
• "Transmog" is for items which don't represent a performance increase in any context, but make the transmog counter go up. This is only an option in game, you can select pass on readycheck. Items in this category are raid rolled between people who want them.
• "Pass" is, obviously, for anything you don’t want to use in any content.

Gearing philosophy

Our goal as a guild is to kill bosses as quickly as possible. We do this by getting the right items to the right people, to keep the pull count as low as possible. We hope that raiders always share this philosophy and are up front about when an item is better for someone else. We also want to know if an item is critical for your performance, as long as this is done with the intention of advancing the guild’s progress, not gearing your own character as much as possible.

Our decisions can only be as accurate as our data, so please make it your mission to help us understand what you need. Loot is a tool that we want to make the best use of.

We welcome occasional questions about loot decisions (though don't want to get into auditing every loot decision) - but most decisions are taken on a range of factors, especially consider performance during the tier, attendance, upcoming bosses, etc.