@Tyde: you say it comes around again eventually, but the guild currently has zero heroic reign of the deads even after months of raiding
(excluding sancus ofc cuz he quit) I don't want to spend 25 dkp for a 2 dps upgrade when I could spend 25 dkp later on a different item for a 200 dps upgrade. actually totc is a bad example instance anyway because 25 man items were slathered with +hit when I had virtually no items with hit and already had +18% hit, so anything I would've taken would've been a downgrade anyay.
@Verdy: I could probably ask shibou what they use to do it, just to see how another guild automates (or doesnt) their dkp. maybe there's something as simple as eqdkp you can just install.
@Goober: I don't think gbank really needs shards anyway. since randies drop like 3-4 sharded epixxx per run, the price of epic shards is cheap as balls. I'd say an offspec 258 is probably worth a shit ton more than 60g worth of crystal.
@Goober: and yeah I did that exact same thing in both Ulduar and totc... I blew my dkp in normal mode and horded in heroic. I think I was like 9th in line for normal reign of the dead. I imagine that initial dkp seed helps out here, where if you're high on heroic, you horde heroic but blow normal... and then if you're low on seed, you can blow heroic (since you wont get anything anyway from those horders) and save normal, since the heroic horders might blow on normal. well... if it were just you and me goob, it'd work out
and totc was nice cuz there were completely different instances for normal and heroic, so you got 2 completely similar sets of loot on 2 different dkp lists.
@Ben: I'd think it'd be pretty simple sometimes (at officers' discretion) to determine whether loot is offspec or not. the only gray area would be something like elemental vs resto for you, where an item drops with dmg/crit/haste... well, I think that's both resto and elemental, so if you took something like that, it would have to be main spec, not offspec... idk. I mean if your main spec had mp5 on it and you preferred using the mp5 piece for main spec instead of the haste or something, then you prob would've only used it for offspec and not main. so yeah, I guess there are some issues. I think a lot of loot is pretty obviously offspec though (e.g. defense on plate vs armor pen).