Loot Priority Score

Why a score

Loot council works when people trust it. Right now the inputs to that trust — who shows up, who performs, who was geared last month — live in three different tools and in officers' heads. The Priority Score pulls those inputs into one standing number per raider, recomputed automatically every night. It doesn't replace the council's judgment on any single item; it replaces the arguing about whose turn it is.

The score

The weighting follows one principle: the more of the input you personally control, the more it counts. Attendance is half the score — showing up is fully your choice and it's what kills raids when it slips. Effort is second at 35 because flasking, eating, and potting are pure personal choices too, visible in the log every night. Performance stays a nudge at 15: parses lean on kill times, comp, and gear that no single raider controls — and for healers they barely measure anything, which is why healers (like tanks) take a flat 75 there and compete on attendance and effort instead.

Effort, measured

E is read straight out of the combat log for boss kills — no screenshots, no consume checks at the raid entrance. Each raid night scores four things:

Every fraction runs the full scale — no rounding up: 10 of 12 kills entered fed is 83%, not 100%. But the scale is honest about what you control. Deaths never cost credit: buffs are judged by the game's own snapshot at the kill pull, so dying mid-kill changes nothing — but a wipe resets the check, so re-flask, re-eat and re-buff before the next pull. And only the kills you were actually in count against you, so an agreed early leave is attendance's business, not effort's. Bosses two tiers old (currently Gruul, Magtheridon, High King Maulgar) are ignored entirely — nobody preps for facerolls. Drums are a group cooldown, not a personal consumable, so they're ignored. Every consumable the log can see counts, including the ones whose buff name hides what it is (Elixir of Major Agility shows as "Mighty Agility", the Mark of the Illidari flasks as "Pure Death of Shattrath") and niche picks like Elixir of Demonslaying. Who counts as melee is read from your logged spec, so an elemental shaman owes no scroll and an enhancement shaman does.

Loot debt

Every item awarded through RCLootCouncil adds debt based on how significant it was. Debt decays with a 3-week half-life: a 30-point weapon costs you 30 points this reset, ~19 two weeks later, ~9 after five weeks, and is gone within a phase. On top of that, when a new tier opens, everything won before it is halved — last tier's gear stops shadowing this tier's decisions (in effect since 30 Aug: all SSC/TK/Gruul-era loot ×0.5).

One button, one price: Best in slot prices itself from the item (weapon → major, tier token → token, everything else → standard), and Upgrade, Off Spec, and Disenchant/Pass map straight to their tiers — no extra bookkeeping on loot night. Raid-dropped patterns and plans always price as recipes — minor at most, whatever the button — and winning one crosses the crafted item off your wishlist: what drops is the pattern, what you wanted is the piece it makes. And since the Black Temple trash bands are not unique, a non-unique ring may sit on a wishlist twice — you have two ring slots — with each win crossing off one copy. And slot is not price: a short open list of chase items that are game-lasting BiS or contested across half the raid — The Skull of Gul'dan, Cursed Vision of Sargeras, Madness of the Betrayer, the big healer/caster/melee necks — counts major (30) no matter what slot it fills, checked against published BiS lists each phase. Disenchants are free no matter what the item is: sharding for the bank never costs the disenchanter anything.

A week in numbers

Three real rows from the current standings (2 Sep build — the dashboard is always the live truth). They show the system doing exactly what it's designed to do: Ingy tops the list by maxing everything a raider personally controls. Eclipz's half-full consumable bar is most of the ~12 points between him and the top five — fixable by Thursday with one trip to the auction house. And Sindarel proves debt is a queue, not a punishment: he does everything right, he's simply been geared hard — every three weeks half of that debt evaporates and he climbs back. Nobody is buried for long.

What the council still decides

The score measures standing — who has earned priority. It deliberately does not measure fit — who benefits most from this exact drop. On loot night the council sees both, side by side:

• Priority Score — from the dashboard, sorted.
• Wishlist rank — where this item sits on the wishlist you keep via the Discord bot (/wish, or import your WoWSims / Sixty Upgrades export). Your list is your voice: rank things honestly and the system argues for you. Rankings lock at phase start — after that nobody edits anything: items you win are crossed off automatically from the loot history, and the council reads your remaining ranks as committed at the start of the phase.
• Upgrade size and raid value — council judgment, e.g. a throughput weapon during progression.
• Contribution beyond raids — organizing, crafting, farming, bank-running: the work that keeps a guild alive shows in no column, but it counts at the table.

Where the numbers come from

• Warcraft Logs supplies who showed, parse percentiles, and the consumable buffs behind E through its API — no manual work once connected. If you're in the log, you were there.
• Raid-Helper supplies who signed and who was rostered. Signed but not selected (or not in the log) → automatic bench credit. Rostered but absent from the log → flagged as a no-show, which earns nothing. Declared absences are recorded as such.
• Officers can override any night — a flaker auto-credited as bench, a missing log, an excused no-show — with a one-line note that shows in the cross-check log. Overrides always win over the automation.
• RCLootCouncil remains the in-raid tool. Its history is read straight from the game's saved data every night — no exports, no spreadsheets, no loot-night bookkeeping at all.
• Wishlists live in Discord — /wish add, /wish import (paste a WoWSims or Sixty Upgrades JSON export), /wish list. Update yours when your goals change; a stale list only weakens your own case. Officers ask the bot /whowants item and get the wishlisters ranked by live Priority.

Ground rules

• Everything is visible. Every raider can see their own score, every component of it, and the full award log. If the math is wrong, say so — it gets fixed, not defended.
• Weights change only between phases. The formula you start a phase with is the formula it ends with.
• New joiners are scored on attendance since their first raid — no trial rank, no handicap. Raiders absent three weeks running are parked as inactive and come back on the list the night they return.
• Guild-directed gearing (e.g. force-feeding a tank for progression) still accrues debt — the raider got the items — but the council may halve it when the guild, not the player, chose the target.
• Alt loot is free — and alts always roll last. When you're raiding on an alt, it's because the guild needed the role, so items won on the alt cost no debt. The flip side: an alt's claim on any item ranks below every main's legitimate claim, regardless of scores.
• Legendaries are council-assigned, not won. The council places them where the raid gains the most. The holder pays major ×1.5 (45 points) — the biggest prize carries the longest shadow.
• The score ranks people; it never awards items. The council votes in RCLootCouncil exactly as today.