This Sunday Everlightly will be running the first of many Gold DKP runs on Emerald Dream, below is his post from the Official forums explaining how it all works and how you can be involved.

What is gold DKP

Gold DKP raids are raids where instead of rolling on items people bid for them with gold, there is no main spec or off spec you bid for an item you want.

For example: a tanking shield drops and you’re a Retri pally you can bid freely for the item. This goes on with all the items until the raid is completed or called.

What happens to the gold?

The gold is split evenly between all 25 raid members once the raid has finished, I as raid leader do not receive any extra gold item for running the raid, I’m just there to make it happen and to have a chance on picking up the odd item.

What keeps track of the bids?

The raid leader has an add on called gold raid manager, once an item is dropped the raid leader takes the items and then adds them to the addons menu.

The addon then starts a countdown from 5 in raid warnings and players bid for the item, stating their bids in raid chat. Once a new bid is registered the countdown will start at 5 again giving people more time to bid on the item. Once the count down has finished and there is a winner of the item, the player trades the Master looter the gold in exchange for the item.

The raid leader can state a maximum raise amount, (for example you can only raise the bid 50 gold at a time) so peeps aren’t wasting time raising the bids by a copper each bid.

Example below

Death Verdict drops from ToC 25

Player 1 bids 500 gold

Current bid 500 gold 5 sec count down starts

Player 2 bids 700 gold

New 5 sec countdown starts

Player 3 bids 1000 gold

New 5 sec countdown

Player 1 bids 1010 gold (since raise is under minimum amount bid is ignored)

New 5 sec count down

No new bids player 3 wins for 1000 gold and trades ML.

This is a pure example, on one run I saw DV go for 8k gold which was very nice for all raiders, and that’s were the fun is, the more items go for the more money you get at the end.

The add on will also keep track of all money from all items and show to the raid in raid chat what the current pot is and the players share.

Another Example

Current raid ToC 25

Northrend beast pot 2000

Lord Jarzusasaa (can’t spell his name) 3000

Faction champs 3000

Total gold 8000

25 players = share of 320 gold per player

Rules for the Raid

There are some rules that do apply for these raids and some which players may think are a great way of making sure they don’t fail.

1. All raid members must stay to the end of the raid, this is when the master looter states the raid is over, if you choose to leave the raid beforehand you forfeit your share of the gold and a new raid member will be drafted in to replace you, the replacement will receive the share of the pot that the player that left would have received.

2. If a player should bid on an item and win but not have the gold to pay for it, they will be removed from the raid and replacement drafted in, there is no IOUs or I’ll give you the gold tomorrow, you pay when you win, full stop. The item is then re auctioned off, it does not go to the 2nd highest bidder as the items price would have been inflated by the non paying bidder and would then be unfair on that 2nd place bidder.

3. As stated before, there is no main/ offspec all items are free for all, you can bid on any item that drops, even BoE, what you do with the items is up to you.

What stops the raid leader being a Ninja?

Well, first my reputation will be at risk, I don’t want my name blasted in trade for being a ninja, I also value the guild I’m currently a member of and would be on a swift end of a kick if I was to. I am a genuine player that wants to bring a new thing to ED, and see how it goes.

When am I going to start this?

I’m going to start with a ToC 25 normal on Sunday 23rd of May with invites going out at around 15:00 game time and start hopefully at 15:30. I want to start with a short raid and see how it goes. If the raid is a success then I may move to ICC 25 and see how those go.

Obviously I will not be taking my main character to ICC 25 runs though as main runs with guild, this would most likely be done by one of my better geared alts.

Gear Requirements

Obviously if people go to ToC 25 with 25 newly turned 80 with terrible gear then it will be a wipe fest, I will be setting a fresh hold of poor geared players per raid and there will be 5 spots, and these will be a first come first serve basis.

The main rule I will be using though is achievements and not gear score, I do not want to 23 peeps in raid waiting for me to explain tactics on vent to one person, the Toon you come with must have the achievement or you tell me your main (if your main has it) to check up.

Drama

Once bidding for an item has finished and the add on announces the winner no more bids can be made, no matter how much people moan about it.

If anyone kicks off they will be removed, any moaning about failing you’ll be removed, and moaning about peoples gear score you’ll be removed. The lower geared people are most likely to pay some decent gold for items as they’ll need most upgrades.

This is meant to be a fun raid watching bids go up, getting your hand on that item you’ve been after for months and when dropped you rolled one. And a nice pot of gold to share at the end.

One last thing is I would ask people taking part to be patient during the raid while the add on and loot is set up.

I like the sound of this where do I sign up

If you want to take part /w me in game, if I’m not free an in game mail will do and I’ll add you onto calendar invite list. Just let me know the name of your character, class and spec you want to join the raid with and I’ll get back to you, and what sort of gear you are in (just state 232 and above or under 232)

My toons you can catch me on are:

Everlightly (my main)

Raiine

Tackleberry

Darkcobra

Ok, well that’s all. hope to here from loads of peeps soon!

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