Officers’ Quarters: Want loot? Buy us a server

Posted by admin on 04 20th, 2009

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Filed under: (Guild Leadership) Officers’ Quarters Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers’ Quarters , a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership. As an officer or a guild leader, doing favors for your friends is one thing. The situation described below goes way beyond that. This one just blows my mind. Let’s jump right into it. Hey Scott, I’m by no means an officer or leader of a guild but I am a very active raider. We use the EP/GP loot system in our guild; it calculates how often you raid vs. how much gear you acquire and based on that gives you priority when looting. Myself, a raider who attends almost every major raid, and an officer who tries to be there when he can, have both been wanting a certain item to drop. I finally pass this officer on priority and if the item drops it should be mine. Our last Naxx raid the item drops and I put in for it, and suddenly it gets awarded to the officer. I confront the guild leader about this, knowing he is friends with the guy and he gives me a vague answer such as “I’m sorry I know you’re pissed at me, but that item has been destined to be his for a long time, I’m sure you’ll get the next one.” What kind of answer is that?! This is supposed to be a fair loot system right? So I go and confront the officer that was awarded the loot, after several minutes he told me that he had made a back door deal to get that item. He had just bought the guild a new Ventrilo server, and the condition he made to the guild leader was that he gets that item when it drops. Continue reading Officers’ Quarters: Want loot? Buy us a server Officers’ Quarters: Want loot? Buy us a server originally appeared on WoW Insider on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | Email this | Comments

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