Guild Wars 2

Just a quick question new to GW2 and unsure how looting works if you are killing mobs around other players. i read on here that mine nodes etc only show for the player does looting mobs work the same way??

basically i dont want to loot mobs to find out i am basically stealing other peoples loot it gets hard to tell when a huge group is killing in say dynamic events who killed what and whose loot it is so just wondering if the search and take all loot only shows for player or if it is a turn based loot?

Mobs also have specific loot for every player, so no .. you can’t steal anything, its also not a problem to help other people to kill a mob, since everyone who has done at leas some decent damage on a mob gets his loot

Awesome thanks for quick response :-)

There’s very little you can do in PvE that will negatively impact another player, and nothing serious.

Everyone who attacks an enemy will get XP and their own chance at loot (you don’t get loot from everything you kill but whether you do or not and what you get is determined independently of anyone else’s chances). There’s no kill stealing.

Everyone who participates in dynamic events, heart quests etc. gets credit based on their own participation.

As you said everyone gets their own copy of gathering nodes. (It always looks weird to me when another player comes along and hacks at the stump of a tree I just cut down.)

About the only thing you could do that would negatively affect another player is finish an event before they get to it so they can’t join in. Some players will act like it’s the worst thing you could possibly have done and you’ve ruined their entire day/week/life. But in reality it just means they have to wait until next time (which could be as little kitten minutes) or find another similar event (if it’s for something like their champion slayer daily/monthly).

Danikat.8537:

About the only thing you could do that would negatively affect another player is finish an event before they get to it so they can’t join in. Some players will act like it’s the worst thing you could possibly have done and you’ve ruined their entire day/week/life. But in reality it just means they have to wait until next time (which could be as little kitten minutes) or find another similar event (if it’s for something like their champion slayer daily/monthly).

The whining is worse when you complete a temple defense event that they wanted to fail, because the retake the temple event gives bigger rewards.