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Posted by SaintGermain on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 - 42 Comments

Tags: AFK, gboot, Guild, Paladin, tank

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By Juggynaut on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 12:32 pm

I’ve kicked people for not giving me any biscuits or just because I feel like it. I rule with an iron hoof.

By Tidbitz on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 12:33 pm

lol

By Hoops on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 12:47 pm

Lol at juggy

Im a pally tank and im afk most of the day if im not raiding, if i got kicked for that id be really annoyed. If i randomly went afk in a raid without saying where i was going then that warrents a gkick more.

By Gilnid on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 1:00 pm

My friend got kicked for raiding with a guild for his weekly Kara rather than a full pug. The guild had stopped raiding Kara, but my friend still needed his T4 helm so he had to pug it every week, and the guild ended up kicking him for finding a group that worked for him.

By Bastosa on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 1:12 pm

You guys think Juggy is kidding?? He is a GL to be feared…. I’d say more but chances are I’d get kicked.

By Josh on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 1:24 pm

Well I do have the best well worse /gkick story in this game. Mind you this is all a true story I was kicked for this. Well I joined a guild named Catharsis and well i heard rumors their leaders were racist but I just left them as rumors. Well awhile into things the guild master starts talking about that we are boycotting McDonalds because they have a Jewish executive. Well I thought that this was just wrong and I spoke up. Well he then made me get in Vent and he started to tell me all these ‘facts’ about how Jews and blacks and immigrants are evil. If you could not tell already this man is actually a Neo Nazi. So he did this for an hour or so and I was proving my points too. Well we finally ended this conversation and I went to bed. The very next morning I got on and he said we are boycotting like Walmart or something because they have a Jewish executive and I told him you can go ahead and do that but I am not going to do that. He was then like well you must go then and he /gkick’ed me. The next private message from him was quote on quote” I had to kick you because you were halting the progress of me spreading my propaganda.” He then said i can still come in vent any time and talk just I cant be in the guild. So yes I think i trumped all your stories

By Pikpoket on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 1:25 pm

We just got a new cat in the guild that got kicked for getting to drunk in raids…. Enhanced shammy doin helacious damage… awsome player even when sloshed…. needless to say he fit in with us just fine…

By Brian on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 1:26 pm

I wonder if there’s a guild out there for Guildie misfits. The ones who were in a guild and then got kicked out.

That would suck if one got kicked out of the misfit guild though….

By Will on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 1:45 pm

I left a guild after a friendly guildmate who I leveled all the way to 70 with was booted because the guild needed a holy preist. The gl elected him to level one to 70 in under one month. Little did he and I know, the gl was planning to boot him as soon as he leveled it to 70. to use his quote- he was “testing the guildie’s devotion”. After he booted my friend i left too out of anger. Now he, I, and about 50 other people have started our own guild, with his 70 holy preist as gl :). Were on the US Antonidas relam, horde of course.

By masterinsan0 on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 1:47 pm

Some people get power-trippy when they have power over other people. Honestly, getting kicked out of a guild for anything other than being a total dick is retarded. Your definition of “total dick” may differ, but either way, if you kick someone for some asinine reason you are power-tripping. IMO, you can take your power trips, and the drama that comes with them, somewhere else. I’m sure EQ could use the players.

“lawl WoW is just a game i can play it how i want”

Yes, WoW is a game, but it’s a game you play with other people. That means you need to have some sense of social responsibility; playing it like you’re the only player that matters is going to piss a lot of people off. If you’re OK with that, well, more power to ya, but I’d hate to meet you in person. You’re probably a real asshole–the kind of guy (or gal) that gets pissed off and quits playing board games when you start losing.

By Tinkerton on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 2:17 pm

Lol I haven’t been kicked out of a guild just yet, but I did see a friend kicked out for not bringing our guild leader chinese food.

By Joel on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 2:22 pm

This is a second hand story that I heard from several former guild mates. A class lead was voicing his frustration to the GL about the group with 3 mages not being assigned a shadow priest to help boost their dps (via mana regen) on some Hyjal/BT runs. Well, they argued in vent about it for a while and then the GL kicked the CL from the raid. Others in the raid thought it was a jerk move and left the raid also. The GL lost it and guild kicked all of those who left the raid and that caused a chain reaction that led to the break of the guild a couple of days later (most of the people that left were core raiders). Sad really.

By Beefeater on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 2:33 pm

I’m sure there was more to it than a single /afk event. Now, I am not implying that the “more” part was his doing. It’s possible that some influential guild “officer” didn’t like him. Or maybe someone knew of another pally tank they wanted to bring in for whatever reason (and the whole new recruitment thing is just a guise). Many possibilities.

By Baelstraz on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 3:10 pm

I’ve seen my friend kicked out a guild because the GL wanted them to donate a large amount of money to him (like enough for 2-3 epic flyers) so that the guild had a reserve of money, anyway, being the nice guy he is and that he had RIDICULOUS amounts of gold (been on since release) he did, and was immediately kicked. sucks to because someone ninja’d 2/3 of it the next day.

By Zeo on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 3:11 pm

The story I have is more about a leave rather than a kick but it was still fuckin stupid.

A guild I’m an officer in on the Sentinels RP server is linked with another guild via Guild2Guild addon. Thus, we can see what they’re saying in their Guild Chat and vice versa. This other guild I mention is based around Christian themes but will allow anybody to join… because they’re nice like that. So one night, some assmunch decides to turn griefer. The GM made an announcement for the new guys coming in that the guild was indeed Christian based. Then this butthead I’m talking about speaks up and says, “I will not be in a guild that believes in bullshit.” and he left the guild without explanation.

He then joined my guild about a week or so later unbeknown (apparently) that we were linked with his former one. We clarified when he joined that we are not a Christian based guild but we are allied with one. Then he started talking shit so one of the other officers booted him.

A few days later, I was flying around and decided to advertise my guild in the Wetlands area. The second I did, I see the same douche pop up with “They are also allied with the fascist racist guild *notnamed*.” As these false rumors spread, my guild ended up with one of the worst reputations on the server over complete and total bullshit.

What an ass. Needless to say, I hardly play on there anymore. I can barely withstand the drama.

By Rockeroad on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 3:17 pm

I was in a group for TK (VR pug, happens a lot on my server. Lot of people good enough for it) and the group wasnt doing so well so well and most, if not all of the people in the pugging guild /gquit because of some stupid idiots in the group. Not really kicking them but almost same thing…almost.

By Ozzel's Cousin Fred on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

I’ve seen some pretty idiotic people do stuff to get booted from guilds. Like sharing account information, and letting their friend be a complete jackass to the rest of the guild. Or taking stuff out of the guild bank w/o permission. Or just generally doing goofy things. One dude left our guild twice and came back (under much scrutiny) he left again under a cloud because he decided to talk poorly about the rest of the guild over a misunderstanding v.v

Another guy left my guild over Durnholde keep/Durn the hungerer. At like 1:30 AM One guy asked him to help with “Durn” he thought the elite. The other one was like sure I need a sec to help my wife, left their group because he didnt see them at Durn, then got told off by the other guy for leaving the group. It was the final straw (he had some issues about how we handled mats distribution with the bank) and the guy gquit right after

Ah well

By Twest on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 3:46 pm

I was /gbooted because I had spoken up during a Kara Raid when the RL decided that raid rules only applied to some ppl and rather than followin the rules which would have given a T4 item to some1 who truly could have used it to replace his Green, gave it to some1 else for the betterment of the guild. Mind you the GL had stated in guild rules that “for the betterment of guild” would not be an excuse, and that any 1 person could only rcve 2 drops per Kara run. I had been with the GL thru several guilds and was booted for speakin up and tryin to take care of those who needed the help.

By typhoonandrew on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 4:13 pm

If they did that then he’s better off looking for another guild. On his side it seems totally incomprehensible, and honestly on their side they’ve probably got some strange policy that “permits” this. Good luck to ‘em.

Your guild has to have the similar values to your own, otherwise it will always be a drama. When in doubt speak up, and if that fails, gracefully leave.

By Teddy on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 4:25 pm

Well Some of these stories are quite elaberate and quite unique. My story is not as “Glamerous” or Complacated as some of these other stories. But there are 3 guilds on my server that i was in and got kicked for what i thought to be unfair and unreasonable. On my warrior, I was a tank for a guild called “Trinity”. Currently a raiding guild but the GuildMaster is a hipocrit and also unwilling to help or assist anyone the her guild. Back about a year or so ago my tank warrior just hit 70 and i was working hard and doing my best to get blues and epics that would make me look and seem awsome, as i always wanted sense i was gazeing at level 70’s when i was 50ish. The GM of the guild tells me i am to be the Main Tank for their First ever karazahn atempt, please note i was still in greens and blues and a defense rating of LOW! 455ish at the time. so i am not uncritable undergeared and such and the guild offered no assistance what so ever but they were the only decient one i had at the time. Now it was late the GM logged off and I was online with 2 other level 70’s in the guild. A chat started up about the kara atempt comming soon and how we were all a little undergeared. I said a thing about the GM not helping not being helpful and not being of service to the guild. I log off, i log back on and im out of the guild, i go to the mail box check it, and then i have a letter from her saying “we have kicked you because u are off no use to us anymore” As if i was a tool or a meer item they needed.
The second story was about a guild called “Khaos Factor” with a hunter GM that was more helpful and much more fun. I was in that guild for a few weeks befor they kicked me for Swearing. Now I dont swear as much as I use to back then but stil, if it was such an issue they should of brought it to me, not talk descreatly in Officer chat. I had to continusly kiss up and toss fun and appologize for something that had either no involvment or no imput from my part. Finialy they kick me Because I moved my ALT out of the guild(at the time 53mage). I told a hunter that will remain nameless because i cant spell his name and he imo is a foul spirted person. They kick my Main*the now barely decient tank at the time* from the guild. i specific thing i ask the hunter to tell the GM is “I am not wanting my main to leave the guild just my alt.”. He tells the GM that I hate them and never want to see their faces ever again. Now this is the funny part they readd me and then tell me im on probation for 2weeks and that i have to follow the rules they set out….
1. Be Nice
2. If u act mean or seem hurtful in anyway your out
3. be respectful
So for the next few hours that i am online 3 people openly insult me and Verbaly assult me for about 2 hours. Then I am talking to 2 different people both in Guild chat at the same time. then 1 person says something to me and me and this person are good friends so i say “Ahhh Shad up silly lol” to this person. and then they say that i am out and then kick me fo what i said to my friend. i try to explane it to them, but my complaint fell on deaf ears.

Thats My story, Not all my guilds but those are the most unfair ones imo.

-Osku dwarf warrior(tank) Shu’halo

By Alicia on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 4:26 pm

never been booted from a guild and hope I never do. I’ve left one on good terms because RL got in the way of WoW and said I didn’t know when I would start playing, so they should start looking for another nehunter. Guess I’ve been lucky, no drama here.

By Zulatia on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 6:10 pm

I have seen freinds get their toons kicked from guilds for having other toons in other guilds. The reasoning for this is weak at best and I think it’s a really assanine practice that Blizz ought to crack down on. If you have toon you like to do PvP with, then you have that toon ask a PvP guild if it can be a member of it. If you have another toon that you like doing raids with, then you have that toon ask a raiding guild if it can be a member of it. What’s the big deal? If a guild insists on a person having all of his toons be members of the guild, then the guild is crossing the line of being intrusive to that person’s RL. Blizz designed the playing of WoW so that a toon is a member of a guild, not a person. All you over-zealous guild-masters and guild officers get a clue!

By AzianJoeNad on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 8:03 pm

When i was lvling my lock, i didnt join a guild till lvl 30ish. mostly cause i heard of how much drama they can cause. well i decided 2 try one. Well when i was lvl 40ish i was able 2 run dm by myself, so i used it 2 get mats 4 enchnting so i could lvl it up. well i didnt have anything 2 enchant so i went into teh guild bank and took a couple of low lvl greens and put some decent enchants on tehm. then i put the items back. i come back teh next day and i was gkicked. i had a msg in my mailbox saying i ninjaed stuff form bank(a couple of the greens were mail which i couldnt use). I told tehm that i put them back in with enchants taht made them slightly better, and next thiing i know im on the ignore list. Later on while sitting in shatt i c some1 lf an enchanter 2 get some enchated mithril or something. I tell him ill do and meet up with him. He asks me if i know a good guild. I had recently joind a nice lvling guild which was very helpfull and friendly. i tell him about the guild and he tells me he was kicked out of teh same guild i was 4 taking things out of teh guild bank that the gl told him 2 take out. he told them this and let him back in but later tehy removed his rank of officer cause they didnt want 2 many, and made some1 else who hadnt been in the guild near as long an officer. Not only that but teh guild bank had 4slots that could only b accesed by officers or higher. so it was basiclly an extra bank 4 teh top 4people in the guild. So the person i was helping quite. A couple months later i was sitting around trying 2 find a group 4 a tempest keep dungeon 2 get some rep. i get into a group and one of the people was from the that infamous guild. i decied 2 look the other way and just go with them. We hit the 1st boss and it drops a blue no1 wants i hit greed 2 de and they the guy freaks on me 4 doing so. i tell him i can de and he calms a bit, this is when i get a msg asking me 2 come do kara(at teh time i hadnt been able 2 do much and kara and jumped at teh chacne 2 go) i tell tehm i have 2 leave and tell tehm 2 roll on shard. i wi the roll so i say bye and leave group. i get a msg from the guild tard saying that is y i was kicked from the guild i was a ninja looter, i tell him about how i enchated teh things i took out and how other people had same problem as me and he puts me on ignore. i try 2 send him teh shard if it menat taht much 2 him but he just sent it back.

By Zolderan on Thursday, August 21st, 2008 at 1:15 am

I was in this guild for a couple of weeks, and they needed me for the guild, was tk/ssc geared, and it was a kara guildm but an rl friend was in the guild. So im running kara, letting the other pally healer roll on all the items even if i coulda used 1 or 2 of them, right b4 aran i get a call, my dads cancer went terminal overnight, so first thing i do, i tell them the situation, log off, and go to the hospital, so later when the visiting hours were over, i went bak home, logged on wow, and was gkicked for leaving halfway thru a kara run…

imo thats the most BS of them all…

By Voydhunter on Thursday, August 21st, 2008 at 1:50 am

Got kicked for not getting along with the GL’s friend.

By HunterHaxe on Thursday, August 21st, 2008 at 4:01 am

A friend and I both where booted out of a guild 30 seconds apart. I was the guild’s main tank and the GL decided that he wanted to do a ZG run out of the blue because something he wanted dropped off a boss or something along those lines (been years so I don’t remember).

Instead of sending me a PM and asking me to tank it, he tells me in open guild chat that I have 5 minutes to meet him and the other guild members. Now, I am not a kid and I do not respond well to being told what to do.

I told him it was my BG day (which everyone knew that I ran BG’s when we did not have scheduled guild events) and I could not tank it because I was with my BG team. At which point he told me to either get to the instance or I was no longer the guild MT. That really scared me…

I told him that was fine, give it to one of the other warriors. Since him threatening me didn’t work, he booted me from the guild. My friend spoke up in guild chat after I was booted and said that was not right and he was booted too. I got a PM from the guild leader telling me he was sorry he had to kick me out of the guild but he could not have the members undermining his authority and not following his instructions. If I wanted back in, I would have to change my attitude.

I told him my attitude was fine the way it was and he could take his authority and shove it sideways… /ignore

Got a message from the co-GL asking why I put the GL on ignore. “Congratulation’s, your on my ignore list too just for being stupid and asking me why… /ignore

Within 3 days the guild went from 80 toons (all mains) and about 60 alts to 20 total members and out of them I think 15 had not been on in weeks so they had no idea what was going on. A few weeks later myself and my friend where in a new guild and I was their MT and getting along great with everyone when I logged on one day and looked to see who was on. There was a new member, the asshat that had kicked me out of his guild was now in this guild as a member. I messaged the our GL and told him this was the guy who booted me out of his guild (GL already knew the whole story)… I was made a temporary officer so I could get the satisfaction of doing /gkick.

By Zestoeren on Thursday, August 21st, 2008 at 6:48 pm

On my orc hunter, I joined a guild that my friends had joined and their big thing was Kara on Saturdays. So I posted on the website my spec and offspec and pets used, one of which was my tallstrider Copernicus. The guild leader was fine with it at the time, but when I showed up to the raid on time, one of the officers blurted out in vent, “What the f*ck is that thing?!” I said it was my pet, I use him for CC and off-tank undesirable mobs and the officer screamed in vent, “Get yourself a goddamn cat or something. You’re not taking that f*cking thing here.”
Quite miffed with this, I calmly explained that the guild leader didn’t care, and by proxy, you shouldn’t either. The officer kicked me on the spot.
I messaged the officer and told him to chill and he gave me a wall of allcaps purple text about being a good hunter, about knowing your place, and lastly, he called me a “n00bish f*cktard with no idea how to play my class, and that I should quit the game and move out of my parents’ basement”.
This actually made me laugh more than anything.
I went on with my gaming as usual for a couple days after the incident… I did my dailies, although I had no one to talk to whilst wranglin’ Aetherrays, until I got a tell from the GL. The GL said:
“Your little spat with **** at Kara on Saturday pissed off all the other officers. They all left on the spot. They were vying to get you back into the guild for about an hour, arguing with this prick. I kicked him, from the guild and from vent. If you want back in, the p-word to the server is ****, and you’re more than welcome to bring Copernicus.”
I gleefully accepted.

By Deathadder on Thursday, August 21st, 2008 at 10:07 pm

I was in this guild with a work friend of mine. He was the guild leader of a guild we both started together. I was fine with that, as I’ve got no aspirations of power. Anyways. He quits our job (a quite underpayed job) and, the next time I get on, I’m out of the guild. He then ends up trying to sue our job for tripping on a walnut

By slowburn on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 at 5:52 pm

putting a port by the summonig stone and sending half the raid to if,calling out for a hand to make a table and making a port to sw.Did’t get g/booted just told off,will have to w8 a few weeks till they all forget and do it agine 8-).

By Ecco on Monday, August 25th, 2008 at 11:14 am

Pre-BC you were on grounds of getting gkicked for being non-existant on your class’ dmg/healing/etc meters. And then with performance in critical positioning scenarios like the complex Naxx bosses and trash. And you’d also get into it if you didn’t have proper resistance for certain things. Molten Core you had to have some mad fire resist for some things, AQ40 you needed bumpin’ nature resist for huhu, and if you didn’t do things right on bug trio–well, I’m going to stop right there. The thing that would get you gkicked pre-BC was primarily what you did with all those points you accumulated on your guild’s site whenever some pretty purple things dropped off of bosses.

By Spence on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 at 12:00 am

Something like that happened to our guild. We were doing hyjal and were just not having the greatest of nights (wiping on Rage trash in a guild that clears the place >.<). Our pally tank went offline. 30 minutes later he still hasn’t come back. Luckily another pally tank logged on and we were able to finish the night. By the time he comes back, after we killed Azgalor, he gets questioned by the officers. He bad mouthed the officers saying that he did not need to be here if we wipe on Rage trash. Then he got kicked.

By Ombrenoire on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 at 11:19 am

I’m an officer in the guild The Honor on Terenas US server (member of the Alliance Small Guild Alliance - ASGA).

We had a few incidents where I and several other officers had to step in. We have very clear rules for our guild, posted in guild info and on our website. Biggest rules are act with honor when grouping and no foul language in any chat channel visible to the guild or the ASGA. One strike rule.

The latest happened 3 months ago. The night I was on, one guild member was either drunk out of his mind or had conveniently forgotten about the fact that there is always at least one officer on at all times. He was swearing up a storm in general chat, bad mouthing other guildies and SGA members about some slight that happened in Kara. I was about to warn him when an SGA Council Member warned him. So he went into guild chat and continued his rant. I gave him a warning just as the GL’s RL wife logged on. In officer chat I filled her in on what was happening. The idiot kept right on ranting. I booted him from the guild and was thanked by the GL’s wife. The booted PMs me and starts his rant anew. I /ignore him.

The next morning there’s a post from him on our guild website about the whole incident, playing the hapless victim. A few hours later, the GL posts a reply to this, explaining what had happened, and banning the booted player from the site. To this day, the booted player is still trying to get back into our guild or a member guild of the SGA.

So far, no takers on this loser.

By Squat251 on Saturday, August 30th, 2008 at 11:08 pm

I was in a guild called Hand of God (not religious, just sounded cool i guess) anyway, i had become good friends with one of the officers (a very high ranking officer) who had designed the site and done a lot of work for the guild. at some point he basically asked to be guild leader because of all the work and what not that he had done for the whole of the guild, not too surprisingly the GL wasnt pleased and they had an argument of some sort (i dont know all of the details as i was offline when this transpired) logged on the next day to see that my friend and little over 22 people had left the guild, and joined his (my friends) i later switched over to his guild after i had heard a bit from both sides.

not the worst story about guild sillyness, but one worth noteing, may that never happen to anyone else.

.:|Squat|:.

By Ezzy on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 at 12:34 am

Not that uncommon to kick someone for always AFK:ing during raids. There are 24-39 people waiting for you and spending 4 hours of their time to play together, some with strict schedules concerning playing, life etc.
It’s silly to some, it’s real for other.
Still, it’s only a game. If he’s got skills, he’ll get another guild.

By Jack on Thursday, September 4th, 2008 at 12:40 pm

My old guild once kicked out 60 people because it had a spy from a rival guild that was picking up drop outs from ours. My new guild is better anyway

By Egma on Thursday, September 11th, 2008 at 12:07 am

I got kicked out of my own guild that I created because I had 5 people dye in 5 weeks and so I handed the GM over to the CO GM who created the guild with me and some AHole mage that he recruited despied me for for unknow reason… I don’t know maybe because he didn’t like the color or my rogue hair…Either way he manipluated my Officers into booting me from the guild by spreeding lies, such as reporting the CO GM (who still had GM power at the time) for buying gold and then saying I did it, and making up other lies like how I would talk about people behind their back and what not. So basicly I got booted out of my own guild for having RL emergencies and trusting a person whom I thought to be my friend to do what was right and know the truth but nope he bought into the mages lies and booted me from my own guild… due to already having emotional issues from what had happened I ended up deleting my character (when it was within 20 kills from 70) and starting from scratch on a different server because I knew I could not emmotional handle playing it again for long enough to where I might as well roll a new main.

By Anani on Thursday, September 11th, 2008 at 11:45 am

I got kicked out of a guild because my fiance left. They were afraid I would start ‘drama.’

By Jalmiel on Saturday, September 13th, 2008 at 4:18 pm

OK, well this isn’t the worst thing ever, but, I used to be in a guild that would /gkick anyone that rolled a “0″ when rolling for raid loot. However, after 1 minute you were invited back, it just started being a funny joke. Nobody really took it seriously.

By Vên on Saturday, September 20th, 2008 at 7:17 pm

I got kicked from my guild after telling this guy who ninja’d the T4 hands that he was a douche. GM said I was making people think bad bout the guild or some shit and I’m like “WTF dude?” Note I had signed the charter on this guild and been a member for 8 months…

By Fallor on Monday, September 29th, 2008 at 5:32 pm

I’ve seen people getting kicked because they did better dps than the guild leader.

By Annabell on Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 at 11:50 am

I was booted once Pre-BC for not going to an UBRS run for an alt while the guild was doing AQ40 then Naxx a few hours later so I had to log and prep for it
I was like wth? Forcing every member online to do an UBRS run for an alt in a guild which we were in Naxx/AQ40???!?!?!

By Kethryez on Thursday, November 13th, 2008 at 2:25 pm

I got kicked out of my guild on two occasions.
the first one was when i pugged kara and my guild didnt like it.
the second time i got kicked because i told of the GM for taking loot even if he didn’t win it (said he had been in the raid the longest and that he deserved the loot beacuase of that) even though he had full epic.