Guest Post: Gold Dragon Kill Points {GDKP} Raiding

Posted by Warcraftecon | November 4, 2009 .

A post was made on Elitist Jerks this past month discussing GDKP raids, which is essentially raiding as a 10 or 25 man group and instead of using /roll or DKP, you use gold as the currency to purchase the items available for looting. You can read the entire story here: http://elitistjerks.com/f15/t77416-gdkp_run_discussion_spread_your_server/

The idea behind this form of raiding is to bring several different types of players together:

Those that have the gear but need the gold
Those that lack the gear but have the gold
Those that have the gear and gold but just want to help

A quick background, this method of raid loot distribution is popular in Korea and started back in BC, and has slowly made its way to Non-Oceanic servers. These forms of runs are not new. Guilds have been selling items to players since Vanilla. When run properly and with the appropriate raid-composition these can be smooth and quick ways to earn several thousand gold or part with several thousand gold and get an item that you truly want. It completely removes RNG and rewards you for your gold making acumen. I would suggest reading the entire Elitist Jerks thread before proceeding as it has a good number of thoughts and ideas that cover the topic entirely.

The raid leaders are typically well known people on the server. I would discourage bringing only your own guild members as this will not yield a good pot. You will want to track down the wealthiest players on your server that want to spend gold. One thing to note is that if a person collecting the gold decides to make off with the pot, the GMs will intervene and distribute the gold and ban the offending account. This is something good to know and for everyone else to know when raiding this way.

I personally scored the Twilight Drake in a recent GDKP Sarth run, which was something I wanted but couldn’t get because my old guild stopped running it months ago and my new guild has a priority system regarding mounts that made it impossible to ever receive. The members of that particular run all earned almost 1,000 gold each for 30 minutes of their time.

You can GDKP any raid instance, but the most profitable will be the newer content although it may prove difficult to get people that have the gear and aren’t locked out because their guild ran the instance earlier in the week. Additionally, you will need to balance the raid properly. You will want well geared tanks that know what they are doing, and healers that are capable. Gear score does very little for this and should not be considered. It’s going to come down to player skill.

Along the lines of skill, if you are in a run and people are expecting to be carried 100%, you must set expectations that this will not be the case. If a person isn’t willing to pull their weight then you are better off sitting them out. The best possible person to have in the raid is a person that performs, needs gear, and has the gold to spend. You will have to use good judgment to insure that the raid goes well. Once you get a successful run going, the concept will spread like wildfire and people will be begging to go.

Because this site is also about spending the gold, I would encourage those of you in a nice gold position to inquire with your server’s top guilds about organizing these types of runs. Most runs are always done on off nights and require availability.

Gold DKP Raids (GDKP)

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3 Comments so far

Dan November 6, 2009 2:14 PM

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Thank you very much for bringing up that topic. I have been hearing a lot of buzz about GDKP lately and have been very interested in the concept. Since it’s now on EJ it should begin to pick up some steam on US/Euro realms.
Cold June 29, 2010 2:17 PM

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Ran my first one the other day and it was a great change from the Cross my fingers and hope I get an item strategy. This is also nice way to win BOE items that u bid undervalue and post on AH for profits as well.
Warcraftecon June 29, 2010 5:45 PM

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Yup, someone on my server is already doing this. Not a bad way to make some easy gold, but you have to know the prices and have the risk tolerance of playing in the BOE epic market.