Raiding as we go forward

[Ruvanal]

As a quick note:
I will not be using a point-based system or other 40-man loot allocation system for the Zul'gurub runs I lead, at least initially.  It will be handled more like a UBRS raid, because that's what it's closer to in size - thus, one need per person, with rares, sets, and epics counting as needs, and a 'can and will use' roll to keep good items from being vendored or DE'd when someone can use them.
[right][snapback]87260[/snapback][/right]

Until we know what and how much is getting dropped in there; it will be impossible to determine if some sort of system is needed. For a more standard type of distribution like 'Group Loot-Uncommon or Better' to work, you will need enough drops per player to help even out what all end up recieving. That can work for a UBRS run because there will likely be 10+ drops per player (150+ mobs taken out) so that there is a good enough spread on the items and most players should get something. Even then there are sometimes some disputes on the prime loots when it involves participants from out side the core of alliance characters.

The need of some sort of loot allocation system starts to become needed when the number of overall drops compared to the number of players starts dropping to lower amounts (10 or less loots per player?). If the Zul'Gurub runs can generate at least 10 loots per player, then such a system will likely not be needed. But for a 20 character group that would need 200+ mobs of elite quality drops to qualify. But will a group really be taking out 200+ mobs in only about 120 minutes? That would work out to about 1 mob taken out every 36 seconds. That kind of rate seems a bit high to me and why I suspect that much of the area will not be generating enough loot to fall back on the looting methods that are often used in the earlier areas like BRS. With apparently 3/5 of each classes sets being given out by quest rewards or 'purchase' after earning reputation, it leads me to suspect that there are not as many options for getting loot as there are in the non-raid instances.