How Loot Works:
In Dragonflight, we have been testing a loot addon called RC Loot Council, which Jur has used in some of his other raids. It isn’t perfect, but it is an improvement pretty much across all categories.. it’s faster, cleaner, fairer, and easier for all parties. While it is still our official policy not to mandate any add-ons, I very strongly encourage everyone to give this one a fair chance if you haven’t already, the time it saves is considerable! But if you really hate add-ons, that’s ok too, you are still able to roll on every item, and we’ll cover that below*.
Going forward, all loot will be officially handled through RC, with our Lootmistress running the show. Lootmistress for Amirdrassil is currently Ntayu. When loot drops, we press a button that replaces your usual loot list with the following:
You simply choose which of these buttons is true for each item. Your choice is sent to the Lootmistress through the RC Council window, which looks like this:
You can see here the three items on the far right, we are looking at the rolls for the first of the three (Horseshoe) right now. The panel lists the name of the person (Alyrien), type of upgrade (Major) and then at the far left, their dice roll (86). All categories are automatically grouped together and color coded by the addon, so comparing rolls is very easy, none of this exchange clutters up the raid chat, you can’t “miss” your item being called if people are talking, and it keeps track for us so we can look back and change things if you rolled on an agility dagger by accident (You know who you are). This panel is only opens automatically for the Lootmistress, but anyone with the addon can view it if they want to, we’re just usually killing trash instead.
Patterns
Patterns are a protected category, due to the absolutely bizarre way Blizzard has chosen to “improve” our crafting experience. Any raid patterns that drop will be collected by the Lootmistress, rolled separately, and awarded to the people signed up to be the official Raid Crafters. Once those individuals have received the pattern, any other registered crafter of the appropriate type is eligible to receive that pattern. Patterns not claimed during raid will be kept by the Raid Leader for the bank.
To sign up as a Profession Crafter or Raid Crafter, speak to the Raid leader. I encourage you to verify your status by checking the Profession Roster, as anyone not on the list will not be eligible to roll on raid pattern drops (this is to ensure that loot remains fair and transparent). You do not need to be on any particular server to qualify as a Raid Crafter, but you do need to be actively working on that profession with an intent to progress and a willingness to craft items for the raid when needed. Raid Crafters will never charge fellow teammates for their services, but the recipient should expect to provide their own mats.
Loot Categories are as follows:
Major Upgrade
This would be something that makes a big difference for you, regardless of ilvl… if you consider the item that dropped to be a Major Upgrade you will push this button. No one gets a say in whether or not that is true except you, but please do not abuse our trust by just rolling for giggles! Major Upgrades get first priority over all others, so just make sure it really IS that big a deal to you before you elbow your way to the top of the list. These items are tracked, which means that if two hunters all roll on a bow as a Major Upgrade, but Ntayu has already won a Major Upgrade trinket that week and Sylv can’t roll above a 6 to save his life, Sylv would get priority on the bow even if his dice come in lower than Ntayu’s. This is to ensure that everyone gets a chance at upgrades even if they have the worst luck in Azeroth. If all people rolling have gotten the same number of Major Upgrades that week, then the dice alone determine the winner. No one rolling any other category will supersede a Major Upgrade roll regardless of dice roll or number of items received; even Thorun’s transmog roll will never take priority over a Major Upgrade.
Minor Upgrade
This is a broad category encompassing everything from better secondary stats and sidegrades to situational gear. If the item is an upgrade for you but not a big deal, you will probably roll in this category. Again, no one gets to police this choice for you, you and only you decide if this is the correct roll for that item. These items are not tracked, and the highest roll will always win the item unless someone has rolled for it as a Major Upgrade. Minor upgrades cannot win against a Major, but cannot lose to Offspec.
Offspec
This is for any loot you will use as an offspec piece, in or out of a raid context. Offspec loot is not tracked, and is always awarded to the highest dice roll. Offspec loot will never take priority over anything for a Main Spec, but it will always come before transmog Fashion rolls.
Fashion
Although we like to pretend we are Fashion First, in fact it is the last category. Any item which is not actually an upgrade but that you would like to have in your catalog of outfits may be rolled for Fashion. It would probably be nice of you to pass on stuff like polearms if you are a hunter and will never even equip it, maybe trade it to someone who will actually use that appearance… but that’s your call, not ours. Fashion rolls are not tracked, and will never come before anything that is an actual upgrade.
Pass: Any items that no one has rolled for in any category will be sent to the resident enchanter to be sharded and the mats given back to the bank.
Patterns
Patterns are a protected category, due to the absolutely bizarre way Blizzard has chosen to “improve” our crafting experience. Any raid patterns that drop will be collected by the Lootmistress, rolled separately, and awarded to the people signed up to be the official Raid Crafters using the numerical loot rolls and the Raid Leader’s discretion. If all Raid Crafters have already received that pattern, any other registered crafter of the appropriate type is eligible to roll. Patterns not claimed during raid will be kept by the Raid Leader for the bank.
To sign up as a Profession Crafter or Raid Crafter, speak to the Raid leader. I encourage you to verify your status by checking the Profession Roster, as anyone not on the list will not be eligible to roll on raid pattern drops (this is to ensure that loot remains as fair and transparent as possible). You do not need to be on any particular server to qualify as a Raid Crafter, but you do need to be actively working on that profession with an intent to progress and a willingness to craft items for the raid when needed. Raid Crafters will never charge fellow teammates for their services, but the recipient should expect to provide their own mats.
*If you do not have RCLootCoucil installed:
All of the above is still true, except you will not have a button to push. Manually pass on all items. The loot will be posted to the raid chat all at the same time, take a look over those items and then send a normal whisper to the Lootmistress as to which items you want for which category…for example:
/w Romulus [Gaze of Bewilderment] Major upgrade
or
/w Romulus I want the [Frying Pan] for…. Fashion… reasons.
This is a normal, regular old whisper, not a computer command. No special syntax is required to make it work, you are simply linking an item and saying what it’s for. Please use the above categories, though! We’ll record your roll manually and it’ll just work like everyone else’s. There is no need to whisper if you DON’T want something, if you don’t link an item after a few seconds, it will be assumed you have passed.