Meta: Kicking raid members with Exp debt just before killing the world boss

Since death causes experience debt and exp debt can significantly reduce drop rate from mobs. It is the intent of the system that a raid killing a legendary boss will want to focus heavily on preventing any deaths in their 40 man raid because even 1 death will cause the legendary boss to drop less? Would the meta then be to remove any members from the raid who have any exp debt just before the boss dies?

Example: 40 elite players from a close knit guild get the world boss down to 10% health and then just before it dies the raid lead orders anyone with any exp debt to leave the raid so that when the boss dies and the system goes to calculate what loot to drop, it scans the raid group, and sees nothing but no-exp-debt members in it and so allows for maximum loot drop. -vs- if you leave everyone in the raid group, even ones with a few deaths' worth of exp debt then when the boss dies it sees that exp debt and reduces how much loot it drops.

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ZeekMystic

I personally don’t have a problem with the lower chance loot on wipe but it is the issue that would arise should people be kicked for it, it should take into account all who fight it like I think someone already mentioned rather than just the party that will get the loot, at the same time however that would suck if your party is rocking it and another who has no chance of taking the loot away from you takes a dive...

Xyls

This is the problem with modern day mmorpgs, everyone looks at everything through the min/max lenses instead of just playing the game and taking whatever the mmo gods give them.

Not ragging on anyone, I admit I'm guilty of it too sometimes. It's just too bad there is no way to move past that kind of culture.

voidshadow

Couldn't they just code it where in combat people can't be kicked or smth?

Taraniss

Xyls wrote: »

This is the problem with modern day mmorpgs, everyone looks at everything through the min/max lenses instead of just playing the game and taking whatever the mmo gods give them.

Not ragging on anyone, I admit I'm guilty of it too sometimes. It's just too bad there is no way to move past that kind of culture.

I don't think this is a modern day MMO issue at all. It has always been there. There has always been people who want to get everything they can out of an MMO, people who want to be the absolute best, and people who will look for ways to exploit something. You see it more in todays technology but it has always been there.

Just because if this is possible doesn't mean everyone will do it. Some guilds won't care and some players won't. Just like some will do it as often as possible. This is nothing new.

Xyls

TwitchTaraniss wrote: »

Xyls wrote: »

This is the problem with modern day mmorpgs, everyone looks at everything through the min/max lenses instead of just playing the game and taking whatever the mmo gods give them.

Not ragging on anyone, I admit I'm guilty of it too sometimes. It's just too bad there is no way to move past that kind of culture.

I don't think this is a modern day MMO issue at all. It has always been there. There has always been people who want to get everything they can out of an MMO, people who want to be the absolute best, and people who will look for ways to exploit something. You see it more in todays technology but it has always been there.

Just because if this is possible doesn't mean everyone will do it. Some guilds won't care and some players won't. Just like some will do it as often as possible. This is nothing new.

Good points... Perhaps the best way to put it is how widespread it is these days. With how easy it is to put information on the internet, and how easy it is to find and access that information, pushes more people in the min/max direction.

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