Isn't there a better way to distribute raid loot? If not which is most fair?

[Tanthallas]

Its not about control over your items. It is not about YOU period. You are turning the DKP system into something it is not, or I should say giving it a reason for being that was not its reason for being.

The reason for our DKP system, and most others I would assume, was not to cater to individual members desire to have control over what they get and when they get it - individuals will always be contending with others who want the same control they will never have because of that very competition. The primary reason is to have a system of loot distribution that, once constructed, moves according to its own logic and does not rely on the decisions of a few to distribute anything. The rules are set in stone, and it goes.

Now if people want to collude amongst their classes and deflate the value of their class items, let them. If every class colludes it would make the deflation that occurs in all class specific values irrelevant.