LWI Ratings for Fun and Profit
Someone call for the mirage? (kudos if you get that quote. hint: commies). This was the SECOND BLU cape to drop from Dynamis - Bubu and one of five accessories total. Really good run on drops. Bubu is the only CoP zone I’ve ever gotten a drop from. As far as CoP accessories go, this one is Just Flat Out Amazing. It’s going to be a cornerstone piece for my acc + haste + meat blue merit build that gives the acc I’d need from having the homam pieces I’m missing. Magic accuracy and MP are icing. I’m thinking of TPing with this and macroing the amemet+1 for all spells and WSs. Probably. Maybe. 15 attack and 3 str is pretty hard to lightly put aside.
Me getting an askar body for my 65 WAR I’m not leveling is a sign our nyzul group has too many freaking askar bodies. This is number four for us with one person having had one before joining. Pretty soon we’ll be just giving these things away to random helpers or tossing them. We also got Ika an askar head this week, his first piece of the group after being here a pretty long while. Better week this week than last week's four runs and 0 drops.
I’ve decided to use the LWI (Lootwhore Index) numbers to decide which floors to farm. People with lower LWIs have more sway than high LWIs since they’ve gotten less loot. So if two low LWIs want to do the same floor, we’ll probably do 2 runs of that floor out of our four, but if two high LWIs want to do a floor we may only do one, and the person with the lowest LWI gets to do a floor of their choosing even if nobody else wants it. I'm pretty much just playing it by ear on this, but it's okay and we're mixing it up a bit.
In case you’re interested, LWI is calculated = (Total of all loot points obtained to date / sum total of all loots obtained by all members) / (Total times member has entered nyzul / sum total of every time any member entered nyzul). A typical LWI calculation looks something like (28 / 133) / (79 / 459), or 21%/17%, or 1.22. A number over 1 means they’ve gotten more loot than they’ve done work; under means they’ve gotten less, and exactly a 1 would mean they’ve been perfectly rewarded. This was Brimah’s LWI here - it was a number that started close to 2 as he got some good stuff pretty early, but has been slowly dropping as the wealth has been spread. The loot part is weighted so that “better” drops from Nyzul count as more loot than worse drops. It’s not perfect as I’m sure a little bias snuck in there at weighing the items, but I think it’s a fair approximation of their relative usefulness. Kisa (our resident spreadsheet fetishist) made a nice little excel sheet that tracks all this stuff automatically for us whenever we update attendance and drops so I always have a pretty good idea where everyone is at.
I’ve totally hijacked my own Ereblog to talk about this, but all of this is one of my first attempts at math-based fairness tracking; using weighted systems and equations to give a better feel of people’s contributions and rewards than simple attendance and point systems and to generally fight against some of the easier ways to lootwhore. A more perfect system would also weigh individual contributions by adjusting work done to be based on epic successes (such as when Kisa was the sole survivor of a wipe but pulled us back to gether) or blatant insubordination or other serious failures (strangely, both links go to the same entry. Apparently difficult times show both true heroes and the useless slackers) as well as showing up on time and properly gearing jobs. The ultimate goal of all this is to put reasonable quantifiable data and systems to previously-considered “unquantifiable” contributions such as attitude, cooperation, and that extra “oomph.” I’m not going to do this with Nyzul because the basic yet functional system I have is working extremely well and it’s a bit too late to change everything now, but maybe some time in the future. Hell, this has all sorts of applications outside of FFXI as well. Would be an interesting management tool.
Oh, right, FFXI personal lootwhore and success blog, nobody cares. Moving on!
Got RDM to 37, finally. Two bad parties and one good party finished it off, though it took a 1437 exp scroll from a crawler’s nest escort there to get the final level. As with every subjob I’ve ever leveled (except THF a little) I’m dropping RDM like a sack of potatoes now that it’s done. Haste and refresh whore, no thanks.
You know, I guess that’s about it really. Did some merit parties and got a few basic BLM merits. Went to a few events as BLM; that was fun though I’m still too noobish. Tried a few wishy-washy moneymaking attempts to work on paying off the Morrigan’s loan; did okay there.
OH! That’s it! I retired BRD finally. Yep, it’s gone for good. Sold all sellable gear (admittedly mostly just instruments, stupid rare/ex stuff) and put the rest in storage. As far as I’m concerned, I don’t have a BRD anymore. No merits, no events, not even for things that benefit me personally. Should have done that months ago. And so, with love, this is the last entry tagged brd. It’s gone, it’s gone, it’s outta here.