Members always end up paying max DKP for this!
Funny, how some guildies would start out bidding ridiculously low, like 10dkp (in our guild max bid was 150 and first bidder won in case of ties) and the bidding would creep up 5 or 10 at a time but invariably the winner paid 150. This was at the end of a loooooong VT raid (you haven't experienced a really long grinding raid until you've cleared all of VT, where every trash mob has so many HPs that they take a lot of time to kill even for a raid force) and everyone's tired and wanting to log.
Finally, bidders got smart and it started happening that the moment the officer opened up the bidding, there'd be a rush to bid 150 and get it over with.
This item is so superior at the time of Luclin that there's no better feeling than winning it. LOL. I remember a cleric friend of mine won it and was so psyched he wanted to run over to Umbral Plains and turn it in immediately. I wanted to log since it was past 1am. But he wasn't a very good traveler, as clerics often are not, and there are some dangers on the way to the turn-in mob, as well as SI mobs close to this quest mob. I figured if he went on his own, he'd end up being killed and I'd have to get up at 2am to recover his corpse for him. So I ported him and went along for the ride, constantly reminding him to go slow and watch out for trash mobs during the long run. He did get aggro after the turn-in but we evac'd away from danger and he landed one very happy cleric.
Good Times!
Edited, Feb 16th 2021 11:42am by Sippin