The patch notes for the 3.2 PTR don’t mention it yet, but one of the changes discovered by PTR players is that you can now trade BoP items won to other members who were also eligible to receive that loot for a short period of time after receiving the item.
This change is obviously designed to reduce the number of GM petitions asking for mis-looted items to be sent to another member of the raid. I guess I didn’t realize just how many of these must be requested every day. I’ve only ever filled them out when there was a legitimate mistake in looting – an incorrect click by a master looter for example. In my last guild, they were filing them all the time. It wasn’t that the master looter was bad, it was that people would pipe up after loot had been distributed saying things like “well, that was more of an upgrade for me”. The ML would concur, and file a ticket. Personally, I don’t like this practice, as it makes people less responsible for their actions. If you want loot, you should declare on it immediately. If there’s a discussion to be had about who deserves the loot more, have that in /raid once all the interested parties have been identified. Yet I digress.
While this change sounds great from the outset, I’m a bit concerned that it may lead to loot collusion, regardless of the loot system a guild uses.
Time and time again, I seem to find myself joining up with the underdog guild on a realm. When I reach 80 or server transfer onto a realm, I try to stay unguilded for a while, running instances to the best of my ability to get a feel for the various guilds who are raiding. By inspecting party members and watching how they play, you can get a pretty good feel for who knows what they’re doing and who doesn’t, regardless of what a guild may put in their recruitment message or on their website.
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Do you need officers to effectively run a guild? I’m not so sure.

