As far as spending DKP, I think it does a couple of things.  It encourages MORE of our guild to come since they get to earn and spend their DKP which is useless if we don't raid.   And like Meshach said, the more guildies that show up, the more of a pure DKP run it becomes and the greater the odds of an item being DKP-ed instead of a random pugger winning it.

I think guildies who DO go should be rewarded for going.  I think that those who want to do ZG will quickly not want to go after a few runs if they don't get any loot and aren't gaining any DKP either.

I can see where it might suck to roll that 99 and &quot;win&quot; the item only to be outbid by someone in guild willing to pay more DKP but it's making the guild better and the &quot;loser&quot; in the dkp bid is still getting dkp for the run...I dunno

The pugs are doing us a service by coming.  Lets face it, no puggers at this point in time means no runs.  We obviously can't make them do DKP or we'll have none of them show up.

I don't see how the partial DKP system A) hurts us or B) discourages the pugs.   But keep talking at me and maybe I'll see the other side.