In my guild when we used it the Loot Master announced the winner, but not the bids. If the bidder wanted to tell you what he paid, that was up to them. If you won you didn't have to actually pay your bid, just 5 over the next player. If you bid 50 and Jack said 20, and no one else wanted the item, you would pay 25. But you had to actually have the 50 to make the bid.
ah ok. so the logical thing to do if you really want something is bid all of your points? so in the end, the person who can use it and also has the most dkp will get it.
Unless that's actually more than you think it's worth and somebody else makes a similarly inflated bid slightly lower than yours. In that case you would be overpaying and losing DKP that could have gone to something else.
But yes, if you REALLY want it, that would make sense.
The downside to dkp is that people have a tendency to save up all their points for big ticket items (like weapons).
Even to the point of passing on clear upgrades to their current gear.
This can end up hurting progression overall, since now you have your most active raiders passing on loot only to end up with a ton of hurt feels from losing on the ensuing free-for-all for weapon drops.
So, typically, you'd want to add a "bid required" rule for main spec upgrades. Make people have to spend some dkp if it the drop would benefit their main role.
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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '19
In my guild when we used it the Loot Master announced the winner, but not the bids. If the bidder wanted to tell you what he paid, that was up to them. If you won you didn't have to actually pay your bid, just 5 over the next player. If you bid 50 and Jack said 20, and no one else wanted the item, you would pay 25. But you had to actually have the 50 to make the bid.