Guild Wars 2

The ability to gather while in combat is simply bad design. It allows people to skip fighting mobs and moreso, allows players to grief other players when combined with the utterly stupid way activating/aggroing mobs works.

This game is largely designed around fairness and cooperation but being able to gather while in combat encourages and facilitates grief and leads to zero cooperation (and coupled with the moronic way aggro works leads to endless griefing).

I’ve been playing MMORPGs since EQLive released and can’t think of one where you could gather while in combat. It makes no sense to allow it, and leads to lots of negative gameplay.

Change it.

There was already a thread on this. If one couldn’t gather in combat, Orr nodes would be nearly impossible to get.

I haven’t seen any griefing at all associated with it. Gathering takes maybe 2 seconds and doesn’t deny the node to anyone else, so you can take a moment to get the node then jump on the mobs to let another person break away to gather.

Why are you so fixed up on how other people play?
Really, just play as you see fit and don’t bother others.

If I don’t want to kill useless trash mobs – it is my choice, not yours.

If you want to do it – please help yourself. And don’t bother me or others.

Thank you.