Guild Wars 2

I constantly see people asking this question in the low level areas.
Is there an official response to this? Some thing I can source-reference to them?

Is there a game mechanic in play that grants a higher amount of experience gain and/or better loot being dropped, by being partied with other players?

Source, please.

I can’t quite find a dev response on this but many posts from players from a few google searches. Far as I know, being in a group does not necessarily improve loot or XP quality/amounts, but you yourself have to do less work to get kill credit from a mob. Group damage is counted toward the amount you need, as long as you get a hit or two at all on the mob. As a pure hypothetical, say you needed to do 100 damage to get full credit – your group can do 90 and you do 10, you get credit. Going solo, you’d have to do all 100.

But again, I don’t have a dev source on this, just my own experience and other players’ posts.

There shall exist an official statement that it does affect your loot when playing in a group. But I don’t know where.. ^^
I remember one said in the official fanbook?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Better-loot-in-a-party/first#post931713

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/78935-magic-find-and-party-loot-tables/

@Navi
Groups
“There is an increase in useful loot drops because you are killing more things faster.”
^ All I could find in handbook..

Ahh, well. Thanks. :-)

Thank you very much for your posts and information.

Hi everyone,

Thanks for answering this post.

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