Less than Three.

It’s probably moot anyway though, as I think that there really is just too much overhead for this plan to be practical over the long term.

Also, even if we were to give it a shot, I think that trying to balance it for any more than a single item per boss would be a nightmare. So might have to just have people pick the one item they MOST want from any given encounter, and allow them to update if they either get that drop, or another drop which changes their minds.
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I sort of came to this conclusion as I was writing it up in the first place, but had one of those, ‘….Yep’ moments when I found myself pondering picking up LUA (finally) and seeing if I couldn’t whack out a WoW addon for us to use for this purpose.
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That said, raid comp optimisation will likely – at least to some degree – follow naturally from that. We already know that if 3 shamans want the exact same item, only one of them is going to be able to win it, so it would just make sense to switch one or both of the other two out for people wanting different items.

All I meant to say is that we shouldn’t ever have the situation where (non tank/healer requirement) raid comp considerations mean someone who has an OMGZ item from the current boss has to sit out, when there is no-one else with that item at the same level of desire.

Does that make more sense?
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Other than for Tank/Healer requirements, we should *NOT* use it to balance for raid comp.

Possible exception is if we honestly believe it’d make the difference between wiping the rest of the night or actually progressing a boss in new content (Icecrown, I r lookin at choo).

But yeah, you raise another significant issue with this. It isn’t just an overhead of management time, but there would be additional time between boss pulls as well, subbing people in and out like this. Only real way to be able to counter that would to have it preplanned who was doing what.

Meaning people would have to be stellarly amazing at signing up to raids they plan on being there for, as well as being in vent or at least paying attention to guild so that they know when to haul ass over to the raid portal ready to pop in.

If they don’t.. TOUGH!

I don’t see it really working any other way.
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^ This.

It’s why I am constantly scrutinizing the HPS and trying to determine if the drop off this week is me, or just the raid taking less damage overall.
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