Loot wishlists for World of Warcraft guilds

What a loot wishlist is

Before a raid, or at the start of a tier, every raider goes through the raid's loot and marks what they'd use: the items that are best in slot for their spec, the ones that would be a big upgrade, the small upgrades, and the off-spec pieces they'd take if nobody else wanted them. Most wishlists add a short note ("two-piece set bonus", "replaces my quest ring") and say which character the item is for.

The point is that the information exists before the drop. When the item appears, the officers already know who wants it, and how much, and can give it in seconds instead of waiting while ten people type in raid chat.

How guilds use wishlists

• With a loot council: the most common use. The council reads every wishlist for the raid item by item, weighs the upgrade against attendance and what each raider has already received, and decides. The wishlist is the raider's voice in a system where officers choose.
• With a priority list: some guilds go a step further and have the officers rank, for each item, who gets it first, second and third, built from the wishlists. Raiders can see the order in advance, so a council decision on the night is just reading the list.
• Wishlist plus a received log: the style That's My BIS made popular in Classic. Each raider's wishlist sits beside what they've received, so the officers see at a glance who has been geared lately and who is still waiting.
• With points: a few DKP and EPGP guilds ask for wishlists too, to plan which items to save points for, though there the points decide, not the list.

What makes a good wishlist

• Honest priorities. If everything is "best in slot", nothing is. Mark the few items that are the real upgrades, and the council can trust the rest.
• Kept up to date. Take an item off once you've got it, or once something better replaced it, so the council doesn't give you a piece you'd have passed on.
• A reason when it's not obvious. A set bonus, a trinket for a specific boss, a tank's off-set: one line saves a question in the middle of the raid.
• The right character. For raiders with alts, say which character the item is for.

Wishlists on Meadhall

Meadhall is a web hub for a guild or raid team, with a Discord bot. Its wishlists belong to its loot council: they're on in any World of Warcraft group whose loot system is Loot council (set on the DKP page's Rules tab), on every line it supports: Retail, Classic, Classic Era, Hardcore, Season of Discovery, Anniversary and WoW Forever. A DKP or EPGP group has no wishlists.

1. One list per raid: on the Loot page, Wishlist shows one raid at a time, picked from the menu. Each raider adds up to 20 items per raid. Where the raid's loot list has been read from Battle.net, items are picked by boss; for other raids, typed by name.
2. How much, and why: each item is Best in slot, Major upgrade, Minor upgrade or Off-spec, with an optional note, and the list says which of the raider's characters it's for.
3. It stays: a list isn't tied to one night's event. It stays until the raider changes it, and saving an empty one deletes it.
4. The council's view: Everyone's wishlists shows the raid item by item, with who wants each one, the keenest first, and their notes.
5. At the drop: when an officer records a drop under Record a drop, Wished for by lists who wished for that item, the keenest first, and once the drop's raid is set, how many items each has received from that raid in the last 8 weeks. Pick one, and the loot line is written as given by Loot council, keeping who had wished for it.

Who sees a wishlist: only the raider and the council, which is whoever may log the group's drops (the Log drops and remove loot lines permission). What a raider wants, and why, is stored encrypted with the group's own key, like a sign-up's note. The loot log itself, who got what and when, is open to the whole group. A raider's wishlists are in their data export. More in the guide: Loot council and wishlists.

What Meadhall's wishlists don't do

• The Discord bot has no wishlist commands yet: wishlists are kept on the site.
• There's no officer-ranked priority list per item; the council sees who wants each item, the keenest first, and decides.
• Meadhall doesn't read an in-game addon's data, such as RCLootCouncil's. It sits beside the addon as the record the guild reads outside the game.

Coming from That's My BIS, which has priority lists and works with addons? How Meadhall compares, point by point.

What it costs

Wishlists and loot council are on every plan. A World of Warcraft group of up to 10 members is free; a raid team of up to 30 is £3 a month and a guild of up to 300 is £5. Members never pay. See pricing.