DAoC: Dividing Up Raid Loot, 2004

[Morreion]

This shot was taken in Atlantis after a Master Level raid. One of the great things about a solid community is that people step up and volunteer to do things for the good of everyone. Before a raid began, the raid leader would state the loot rules of the coming raid. During a raid, there would be a master loot holder who would collect worthy drops from raid members. After the raid was over, participants would roll for the loot (typically /roll 1000 to get a number from 1-1000). The highest number would get the loot. There may have been certain rules about how many things one could get this way and who could roll on what, depending on the raid leader. An assistant, perhaps the master looter, would announce the items to be rolled upon, just like an auctioneer. It worked well. Oftentimes there would be wheeling and dealing after the rolls, people offering to trade or purchase items that others had won.

Ninja looting, common these days, was almost unheard of. When it happened, it was a server-wide scandal, and that person would be shunned by many.

[Regolyth]

Ah, loot rolls. How burdensome you were to me. I remember holding large loot rolling sessions at the end of my raids. They seemed to take almost as long as the raid itself, but that was usually my fault for collecting everything that dropped. And I always tried to make sure that only classes that could use an item got a chance to roll on it. Some people really hated that.

Feb 28, 2011 10:18:11 GMT -5 Morreion said:

Ninja looting, common these days, was almost unheard of. When it happened, it was a server-wide scandal, and that person would be shunned by many.

Yeah, those people didn't last long. You never really heard of such things, most of the time. If you did, you almost never heard from that person again.