JohnCapital
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Recently there was a shared loot event featuring Big Bulk. Me likeie this type of event, so off I went.
There were large groups of players just blasting away a mob then moving on to the nearest red dot. Rinse. Repeat.
No one asked "Hey, can I join?" We simply did. People came and left all day long.
However, during part of the event, I somehow (can't recall how I made this mistake but...) ended up shooting a mob that was only being attacked by two ubers being fapped by another person. (Again, can't recall the names. Doesn't matter anyway.)
I simply assumed they didn't want someone hunting with them, and even though it was shared loot, and I could have sponged off their hunting, it simply would have made them unhappy, and frankly I wouldn't have had as much fun either knowing I was just making enemies.
So I wished them happy hoffing and left to go join the big public hunting group again. They didn't ask me to leave. They didn't have to.
Also, there were plenty of occasions where we were in the same location as single hunters. I recall Slither there once. Did our group start running toward him shooting his mob? Nope. We moved on shooting other red dots that weren't already being attacked.
Sure, technically we could have ran over the single hunters, swallowing up their kills. But no one in the groups I was with did.
The result? Everyone had a great time.
Sometimes, there's a difference between being technically able to do something and being polite.
If there's ever a doubt in shared loot, hunt with groups where you are obviously welcome. Please don't intrude on others hunting just because it's technically allowed.
Hint: Hunting next to a single hunter means that you will get agrroed on quite often. And if you are that weak (especially when the ubers simply stop shooting so you get the full agro) then you die more often. BUT if you simply find a "free-for-all" group, you'll get hit less, die less, and enjoy more. Everyone will.
Yeah, obviously I made this post since I was too late to reply to a closed thread. The thread being closed was the right call. However, the issue of "Shared Loot Etiquette" has been an issue for quite some time.
Just sayin'.
There were large groups of players just blasting away a mob then moving on to the nearest red dot. Rinse. Repeat.
No one asked "Hey, can I join?" We simply did. People came and left all day long.
However, during part of the event, I somehow (can't recall how I made this mistake but...) ended up shooting a mob that was only being attacked by two ubers being fapped by another person. (Again, can't recall the names. Doesn't matter anyway.)
I simply assumed they didn't want someone hunting with them, and even though it was shared loot, and I could have sponged off their hunting, it simply would have made them unhappy, and frankly I wouldn't have had as much fun either knowing I was just making enemies.
So I wished them happy hoffing and left to go join the big public hunting group again. They didn't ask me to leave. They didn't have to.
Also, there were plenty of occasions where we were in the same location as single hunters. I recall Slither there once. Did our group start running toward him shooting his mob? Nope. We moved on shooting other red dots that weren't already being attacked.
Sure, technically we could have ran over the single hunters, swallowing up their kills. But no one in the groups I was with did.
The result? Everyone had a great time.
Sometimes, there's a difference between being technically able to do something and being polite.
If there's ever a doubt in shared loot, hunt with groups where you are obviously welcome. Please don't intrude on others hunting just because it's technically allowed.
Hint: Hunting next to a single hunter means that you will get agrroed on quite often. And if you are that weak (especially when the ubers simply stop shooting so you get the full agro) then you die more often. BUT if you simply find a "free-for-all" group, you'll get hit less, die less, and enjoy more. Everyone will.
Yeah, obviously I made this post since I was too late to reply to a closed thread. The thread being closed was the right call. However, the issue of "Shared Loot Etiquette" has been an issue for quite some time.
Just sayin'.