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What it all comes down to is Casual raiders prefer Random Frequent raiders prefer DKP In any real raiding guild using dkp is the best way to go. The people who show up and raid the most will be getting the best gear. In turn, the guild will be able to advance to better content, earning better gear. The infrequent raiders may even be able to gear up just as fast as they could in a random guild since the hardcore raiders wouldn't need as many things from the lower tier zones as the hardcore raiders. For Instance, in my guild Most of the loot from FTH, MIS and EH's 1st level are pretty much on transmute it when it drops basis since none of our normal raiders would spend dkp on it. When we have a new member with us, we know that they will be geared up fairly quickly with at least decent gear since those that member will have dibs on a large amount of loot from those areas. We had a guild Coercer who went from all treasured to all fabled in just under three weeks of raiding, sure he didn't get the best gear from those zones...but he was brought up to a raiders level of gear far quicker then if he would have to win a /random on every piece of gear that dropped.