Another Stalking Tool

GuildMates is a (newish) service to register your game characters from multiple virtual worlds. The site includes a browse and search function, friends list, avatars and is free. Keeping in touch with game “friends” is a nice ideal, but I’m more of a “keep your enemies closer” kind of guy. Sadly, none of the asshats on my List are registered. But I’ll be watching. (Don’t think I’ve forgotten about that little J-boots incident on Tarew Marr, Billy Bob Necromancer!)

Loot and Luck

A short while ago, World of Warcraft began their Guild Relations program, an invitation-only guild think tank. We had told one of our officers to check into app’ing, aka auditioning, for this — he probably didn’t — no matter, doesn’t seem like a lot of benefit to participating. However, there is one good thing that has sprung from this program: The Guild Relations forum, which is just about the only forum with thoughtful game discussions. Inside the 234,678th thread about the evils of DKP, I found this study of DKP loot distribution versus /random loot distribution in a (hypothetical?) raiding guild of 150 members. If you look at the “Lady Luck is a Bitch” /random chart, the one hypothetical member attended almost 50 raids before scoring some loot. This is how I know the /random chart is simulated: that guy would have quit after the tenth raid or so.