I'm not sure my opinion is worth much here, considering I'm still fairly new to raiding..but I vote to keep it DKP free. I do understand how frustrated Chrys feels though, and maybe as Maube suggested with the higher roll for the dedicated raiders or something similar should be implemented. It’s a tough one to call.. Should the vets be given preference because they’ve been there from the start? They certainly deserve it, but on the other hand, you have someone that came in to help fill a spot and that person did help down that boss, but because they haven’t been there with us before they don’t have the right to be awarded something that would be useful to them? I’ll be the first to admit if one of my healing spells dropped and say a shadow priest, who would rather play in shadow than heal in the raid rolled and won, yeah.. I’m going to be a tad bit upset. Now if a holy/disc spec priest had joined us, even though they had not been with us before and they won the roll... I may be a bit disappointed but *shrugs* they were there and deserved a shot at it.
I know this probably wasn’t very helpful to you in making your decision Crik, and I certainly feel for ya in having to make it. Just know you have my support no matter what you decide and I want to thank you so much for leading this raid and doing it so well.