There is a thread around here or in the archives called something like "best practices: dkp" (I didn't find it in a few searches -- if not a "best practice" thread it was started by the same author that starts most of those). Very long and most of it talks about the advantages and disadvantages of various systems.

Buried in there in that huge thread is some info on DKP mods.

Here is what I recall other than EQDKP and nDKP, both of which the consensus is that they are not so great:

EPGP -- http://code.google.com/p/epgp/wiki/WhatIsEPGP_v1
WebDKP -- my guild just started using this, its ok.

I'm sure there are more (well, there is suicide kings but that isn't so good for larger raids and can be gamed).
I like the principle of EPGP myself, and all modifications to it would be easy --- its purely a mod so its just editing some LUA.

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I searched every DKP post I could find but I didn't find any that listed a bunch of mods/web apps for tracking DKP other than the standard EQDKP/nDKP. Does anybody know of a webapp that is highly customizable for tracking DKP?? We want to use a system along the lines of the one Alcaras linked in the DKP post some months ago which is somewhat more complex than the standard zero-sum.

Any help would be appreciated :)

I'm actually on a similar search myself. We're moving over to a new DKP system (looking like EQdkp at least for now) and while we can use RaidTracker to load the raid data in, I'm hoping there's a good mod out there for managing the auctioning of loot. (which may or may not be a real bidding auction or may be something more like NDKP's auctions where there's a fixed price.)

Anyone using anything like this? Any recommendations on mods to check out or mods to avoid?

Try out Bidder and DKPmon, both Ace2 addons of which latter is the actual DKP-managing addon, and the other one is a bidding-tool. There's also a possibility to export DKPmon log data for EQDKP with DKPmon_eqDKP module. I tested this addon-pack out briefly, and I can tell you it's very customizable and versatile, but also quite puzzling when you load it up for the first time. Definitely worth a try.

I'm still looking :( . We're not going to be using a loot system in Karazhan so I still have some more time but eventually I have to just choose something. Nobody else has found anything better than EQDKP?? I guess I could migrate my boads to phpbb and use the plugin but that just seems like quite the hassle for such an easy thing. Though seeing the issues that PunBB has given EJ maybe that's not a bad idea either.

So to sum this up, has anybody found a easy and flexible DKP site lately??

An old thread, to be sure.

Are there any new mod addon/solutions available not listed above?

PS - I would have posted a new thread in the UI and Addon Forum but I haven't achieved the 10 posts required to post a new thread.

What DKP system will work best for your guild really just depends on the type of crew you have. We've kept it super simple and had good results. Our forums simply have a 'loot rules' sticky explaining the basic system of how you get points and a link to a shared google docs spreadsheet with point totals. We have one member who is the DKP accountant. That being said we are a small guild of tight knit people who have gamed together for years. Just keep in mind a smooth running system doesnt always require a ton of mods and complexity to be good. Base it on the crew you're running with.

There's an old thread about this on the UI forum too, started by Kota I believe.

I really like how EP/GP works, so even if the included mod was bad, we would probably still use this type of system.

That being said, we use EPGP with the standard updating mod, and for the most part it works very well. The only hiccough we had was when the use of pipes in notes (|) was broken during a patch. We had to manually edit each person's note to support the new format.

Otherwise, the mod has worked flawlessly. It's easy to add EP or GP to a character, and mains are easily linked with alts, so an alt awarded EP is credited on the main for example. EP can be automatically awarded by time, and the raid leader has prompts pop up on boss kills and on looting for awarding EP and GP as a reminder.

All data is stored in Officer's notes, so as long as they are locked down and uneditible for the general guild population, it is relatively secure. There are easy options for backup and for export to HTML or text for posting up to date information on forums or web sites.


All in all, the EPGP mod itself has worked very well for us from the beginning of BT to present, with only that one incident requiring any significant amount of work for administration. My only recommendations for its use (as with any DKP mod that has in-game tracking) would be frequent backups and data exports to text for retrieval in the event of a failure.

CT_Raidtracker is absolutely horrible. Just the way you have to assign loot to an encounter makes me want to destroy furniture. If you are using that, try going with

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instead. It's just so much better handling wise and actually picks up the boss that drops the items correctly about 80-90% of the time. And assign items that it did not pick up correctly is pretty easy.
The command to add items to it's ignore list is /hc exclude add itemlink, that's about the only thing you need to know, the rest is self explaining and just superior in any way to raidtracker.

My grip with EPGP is that it seems you can't set up multiple EPGP accounts per guild.

IE: If I want to have 1 dkp system for T7 and 1 dkp system for T8 I'll have to actually wipe out all my T7 dkp and start a fresh, basically leaving me with no T7 dkp.