Gold DKP Run

Recently, The Dambusters have been getting involved in the GDKP raid set up the excellent Gostoza of Dimensional guild every Saturday evening and I attended the latest gathering. It’s a 25 man normal Siege of Orgrimmar run where every item that drops is immediately put up for auction to the group with minimum bids starting at 10k which often rises to 30k, 40k or even 50k+ at times resulting in a massive prize pot by the end of the raid which is then divided up between the mainstay players who attended the majority of the night.

It’s a fantastic concept and the guild have made friends with quite a few folks from running the raid regularly. There are some really great people pulling this together with the prime objective being to bring the community together while offering the incentive of a lump of gold and a chance at some nice loot to keep people in the run who may otherwise quit, go afk or get up to other shenanigans all to often witnessed during what is essentially a pug raid.

The concept is hardly new, I knew of GDKP runs during Icecrown Citadel and there is likely to have been similar iterations long before that. What’s nice is, there’s no animosity among the leaders of these raids, everything is done fairly and openly with no concerns raised for potential ninja attempts at the pot by the leaders.

You can join as a ‘booster’ or as a ‘buyer’ but only if selected for a place by the raid leader. A booster is someone who is very well geared and capable of clearing the raid with enough proficiency to acceptably be able to help ‘carry’ potentially undergeared players who will be looking to pick up auctioned loot. A buyer may be well geared but not proficient enough in the raid to be able to carry others. On some occassions, a buyer may even have very little gear and be totally carried through the raid but with the express condition that they must bring a lot of gold to the raid and bid on every possible upgrade that suits their class.

The raid leadership use a public TeamSpeak channel although I did offer our Mumble server to them for use and I might officially offer the group an opportunity to use our Mumble again since there was a random trolling issue with the TeamSpeak channel they were using which was far from ideal. We have space on our 50-man server and since a bunch of my guys run the GDKP raid regularly, the team would be welcome to use our Mumble. We may even make more friends around the community after the raids are done and people remain a bit longer to chit-chat with our legendary guild members 🙂

I believe the final pot at the end of the Klaxxi fight was just under 600k meaning between 24 of us shared about 25k each. After that, some left and some switched characters and we went on to blow down Garrosh Hellscream with ease. That was actually my first 25 man normal Garrosh kill and it was nuts at the end but great fun. If I’m honest, Caledonia doesn’t like playing ‘off-tank’ to lesser geared Death Knights but that’s not because my tanking partner Teranier didn’t do well, he was excellent but really only because I wanted to impress with the paladin’s awesome healing powers when loaded up with all that Garrosh vengeance.

I am sure the lasting impression our tanking and healing skills displayed will no doubt ensure Dambusters will continue to be welcome on Gostoza’s GDKP runs and I’m sure the Dambusters will continue to impress the wider community with our fun loving nature and appreciation of other good people of the game. I made a friend in Yke who seems to be a friendly player and although I didn’t manage to get onto the raid’s TeamSpeak chat, the other guildies were literally gushing about her attractive sounding voice haha. I will take their word for that but most importantly for me is that our guild members are out there enjoying themselves, being proud ambassadors to the guild wherever they go.

Here’s to more community gatherings, and MORE GOLD!

/Salute