Naxxramas

[Raelynn]

It's funny you say this, MJ; I have become Satan himself to some people over on Stormrage for basically developing this exact idea and getting our council to tweak and approve it.

And ironically it's only gotten worse since we downed Nef Monday.  :/
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I've been working inside the other alliance on Stormrage as part of BYS, and we implement a somewhat similar system which we call the "core system". We use a 90-day rolling boss attendance (or night attendance before the instance is on farm status) and use a certain percent attendance for determining core status. The cores are invited first and the rest get invited only following that.

Now this system has its good and bad points. The good points are that the people that work hard to learn an instance get the benefits of the loot from it for basically as long as they want. However, including this system in addition to a zero-sum point system means that non-cores are doubly penalized in terms of getting loot. Additionally, there is no longer a mechanism to get people into a raid if they had couldn't get in prior (at one point there was a list so if you didn't get in one raid, you were guaranteed to get in the next, but the list got too long so it was dropped). All this adds to people getting unhappy because they aren't core so they can't get in, but since they can't get in they can't become core.

In a more structured raiding guild that has just over the amount needed to run, it could work better. But when you start hitting the point where you have half again as many people that want to run a raid, you start getting more and more unhappy people that can't do anything to change their position.