How It Works

Every boss kill belongs to everyone who was there. Loot is auctioned for shares, the community's own points, and what the winner pays is split across the raid. The numbers on this page are read from the live settings.

In one minute

Loot is auctioned for shares, our own points. Bids are sealed; the winner pays the second-highest bid, or the floor (10, 20 for a two-hander) if nobody else bid.
What the winner pays goes back to the raid: a 200-share sale in a 20-player raid pays everyone else 9. Nothing is minted; balances always sum to zero.
Shares live on your Discord account and follow every character. New raiders start at zero with 100 shares of credit, so you can bid on night one.
Every addon in the raid checks every auction, and the whole ledger is on this site. Nobody has to trust the leader.

Join us on Discord The rules

The basics

Is this GDKP?

No. No gold changes hands, ever. Shares cannot be bought, sold or traded; they are only earned by raiding and spent on loot. Trading an item you won for gold or anything else is a ban.

Where do shares come from if nothing is minted?

From other raiders' purchases. When someone pays 200 for a weapon in a 20-player raid, 180 is split evenly among the raid (9 each) and 20 goes to the performance pool. Everyone starts at zero. The first items sold are what put the first people positive, and the sum of every balance in the community is always exactly zero. You can check that on the Players page: https://fairsharewow.com/players

So I start at zero and go into debt on my first win?

Yes, and that is the honest description of what happened: you took an item worth 200 of shared value and have put in 9. Your credit limit on night one is 100 shares and it grows by 100 for every raid you attend, up to 500. You pay it back automatically, because every other sale that night and every night after pays you. Starting everyone at 100 instead would change nothing except the number on the screen.

Why second price instead of paying what I bid?

Because then you bid what the item is worth to you and stop thinking. With first price you shade your bid down and try to guess what others will do, and the person who guesses best wins, not the person who wants it most. Second price removes the guessing. If nobody else bids, you pay the floor.

What is the floor, and why is it low?

The floor is the price of an item nobody else wanted: 10 shares for any item, 20 for a two-handed weapon. The moment two people bid, the second price sets the price and the floor is irrelevant. It exists so every item puts something back into the raid and so a group cannot pass items around for nothing. Floors are the same in every instance and every raid size, because contention already prices difficulty.

Can it be gamed?

What does the leader see during an auction?

The same thing you see: who committed, not what. Bids are locked with a hash that includes your name, the auction and your bid, so a commitment cannot be copied, moved to another auction or changed after the fact. When bidding closes, every addon opens every bid and computes the winner on its own. If the leader's addon announces a different winner or price, every other addon in the raid flags it and the raid cannot settle without officer review.

What if the leader edits the record afterwards?

Every raider's addon keeps the full transcript of every message in the raid. Settlement replays that transcript on the server; the leader uploads nothing but raw messages. If your copy disagrees with the leader's, upload yours from the addon and the raid freezes for the officers. You do not need to trust the leader, the officers or the code's author. The code is public: https://github.com/JPWill/FairShare

Who decides disputes?

The officers, named in Discord, from the transcripts. Their call is final and logged. The system is built so that disputes are rare: most things that could go wrong are detected by every addon in the raid at the time, not argued about afterwards.

Why should I trust the people running this?

You should not have to, and that is the point. Every claim above is checkable: the code is public, the protocol document is public, every raid's record is on the website at https://fairsharewow.com, and your own addon keeps a copy you can upload. If you find a way to cheat it, tell us and we will fix it and say so.

I have four alts. Do I get four shares?

No. One share per person per kill. Shares, credit and bans are all on the Discord account, and every character you register points at it. Registering a second Discord account is a ban that follows every character and Battle.net tag ever linked to either. Registration needs a Discord account at least 30 days old.

On raid night

Can I bid off-spec?

Yes. Tick Off-spec on the bid window. It is flagged in the record and the leader can set a discount for the night. The flag is locked inside your commitment, so it cannot be toggled after the fact.

What if I disconnect during an auction?

Your addon opens your bid automatically when bidding closes. If it never arrives, you get one free pass per raid. After that there is a fixed penalty of 25 shares, because a bid that stays sealed is the one way to game a sealed auction.

What is the performance pool?

10% of every sale is set aside for the night's performance bonuses, paid by percentile against logs for your spec, kills only, voided by an avoidable death, with separate measures for tanks and healers. Until a logging site supports Forever the pool accumulates and is paid out once scoring is live; each raid's pool is shown on its page.

Do I need the addon?

Yes, to bid. You can raid without it, and you still earn your share of every sale, but you cannot buy anything. It is one folder with no dependencies and no slash commands: a minimap button opens one window. The leader runs a test auction before the first boss so any problem is caught before loot drops.

What does the addon do to my game?

Nothing outside loot. It sends and receives raid addon messages, opens a bid window when an auction starts, and writes a transcript to its saved variables. It does not touch combat, movement, chat or any other addon. It cannot read your logs or your screen and it has no internet access; nothing in WoW does.

Joining

How do I join?

Join the Discord at https://discord.gg/YqnYSFQUW7, press Accept the rules, then Register, pick your character and role, install the FairShare addon, and sign up for a raid. Two minutes.

Can I help run it?

Yes. Raid leaders, officers and people who show up are what make it work. Say so in Discord. If you write Lua or Go, the repository has issues marked for newcomers.

What happens to my shares if the community dies?

They stop meaning anything, the same as DKP in a dead guild. There is no gold behind them and never was. What you keep is the gear you won. We think the public ledger and the fact that any raider can run the system make it more likely to outlive any one leader, not less.

The rules

One person, one account. Register every character and your Battle.net tag to your Discord. Points live on you, not a character. A second Discord account is a ban.
Loot is auctioned for shares, never gold. Want an item? Bid what it is worth to you. Bids are sealed; the winner pays the second-highest bid, or the floor price if nobody else bid (10 shares for any item, 20 for a two-handed weapon). Gold never changes hands.
Everyone gets paid. 90% of every sale is split evenly among everyone in the raid, standby included. 10% goes to the night's performance pool.
Bids are final. Credit lets you go negative up to your limit, which grows with every raid you attend. Earn it back by raiding.
Off-spec is fine. Tick the box when you bid. The leader may set a discount for the night.
Won it, wear it. The item goes to the winner. The raid leader can transfer it to another raider during the raid at the same price. Trading loot any other way is a ban.
Stay connected during auctions. Your addon unseals your bid automatically when bidding closes. If that never arrives (a disconnect), you get one free pass per raid; after that it costs a penalty, because a bid that stays hidden is the one way to game the result.
Be there. Every sale pays out to everyone present, standby included. Each boss kill you attend, and each full run, also counts toward your boss kills, which decide invite priority. Going AFK earns nothing.
Run the addon. No addon, no bids. The leader runs a test auction before the first boss; fix anything it flags.
Everything is checked. Every raider's addon verifies every auction and keeps the full record. The leader uploads it and shares move. Think something is off? Upload your own copy from the addon, any time: if it disagrees, the raid is frozen for the officers, whose call is final.

Cheating, bid rings, loot trading, and alt accounts get you banned on every character you have ever linked.