looting guidelines for raid officers

[Professor Frink]

Yeah, I am assuming that it's a guild or allied guild group, rather than a PUG.  No one expects PUGs to cater to anything more than base greed.
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I fail to see the distinction in base greed between "i want an equal cut of this valuable item that dropped, even though you could use it directly" and "I want to be given this valuable item that dropped because it's an upgrade for me, even though everybody needs money and some people couldn't use any world purple"

If you're concerned with the good of the guild(s), the purple should be given to the person best able to use it -- and it would be a rather big coincidence if that person happened to be on the raid it dropped.

If it's a PUG, and there's no obvious group to find the best use for the item, people long ago discovered a method of efficently finding the best use of a scarce resource: find out who's willing to part with the most money to have it.

-- frink