I chuckle slightly to myself when I get messages from players who are excited (smug) after using an Elder Charm of Good Fortune on Sha of Anger throughout the week.
For those of you not in the know, those Charms are used to give you a bonus roll on any raid boss. It has a chance of giving you flasks, gold, or an item off that bosses loot table. Using it on outdoor bosses or LFR gives you a little something extra for your efforts. You might get gear that you can use for raiding or for PvP.
However, those of you who are clever should know to actually save these when you’re raiding normal or heroic modes. If there’s something specific you want off of a boss, wait until the bonus charm UI kicks in and activate it then. In addition to the standard loot that drops for the raid, you can get a crack at a specific item off of that particular bosses loot table. You don’t want that dirty PvP gear, right?
We managed to get the Stone Guard down last night after a few hours of gruelling attempts and the charm roll sprang up. Can you guess how much bonus loot we picked up in a raid of 25?
Not 2.
Not 4.
Not 7.
Try ten extra items.
Our raid received a total of 16 usable raid items last night off of the Stone Guard.
Personally, I feel that the charm system is a godsend under the loot council system. The bonus roll fires off and the raiders receive their rewards in their bag. When we get around to distributing raid loot, a player that would’ve wanted a set of legs might’ve won some from the bonus roll and won’t need it from the main loot window allowing us to ship it over to another player that needs it.
I’m actually curious as to how EPGP and DKP and other points based guilds are going to deal with loot gotten from the charms. Are they going to be considered “under the table”? Should players contribute a minimum number of points whenever they win even though it’s their charm to be used?
I’m curious how your UI reported the loot. As an administrator of a system similar to EPGP I’d prefer the items were tracked in some way, but if it is required to be self reported, it just won’t work. Did you get a loot line when the person received loot? Was it received in a bag and then opened?
Moshne1 I didn’t see a loot line saying “Name has received boots”. I only saw it for myself. I ended up telling people to send me a tell if their bonus roll activated.
If there’s something specific you want off of a boss, wait until the bonus charm UI kicks in and activate it then. In addition to the standard loot that drops for the raid, you can get a crack at a specific item off of that particular bosses loot table.
“If there’s something specific you want off of a boss, wait until the bonus charm UI kicks in and activate it then. In addition to the standard loot that drops for the raid, you can get a crack at a specific item off of that particular bosses loot table.”This reads to me as if you can pick the item you get to roll on from the loot table, but I suspect you mean that the player simply gets an additional chance at loot and that loot will be filtered based on the player’s class and spec. Is this correct?
unnullifier Yes. Usuall;y theres 1 – 3 items that your class/spec can use.
Our raid uses Suicide Kings. I have no plans of suiciding a raider who gets loot from their bonus roll. It’s a result of effort they put into the game and does not change other raiders’ chances of receiving loot. If it did have an impact on the loot others could receive, I would have to reconsider.