Dynamis

[idx1]

There is always going to be competition for mobs in populated zones.
If you're going to try to 'outperform' than what your job can claim - you are now putting yourself on the 'competitor' list.
Thus, you'd be making yourself the target for other 'competitors', and vice versa.

A tip to 'hold claim' over a yellow mob is based on emnity and total damage dealt to the mob in question based on my observations.

You can hold only mob at a time per PC character, anything outside of that will shift back to yellow eventually.
If you took 5% of the yellow mob, and someone comes and does, for example, 15% within a very short amount of time (like a ws), then the claim will shift due to the lead of emnity and damage dealt.

With that, if you bring the yellow mob to 20%, and someone starts auto-attacking, they will not be able to claim the mob nearly as quickly.

Though jobs with a strong ws ready, or a BLU , can easily one shot and take the kill.

Compete, or play it safe with your 100% claim over one mob.

[Arcon]

With that, if you bring the yellow mob to 20%, and someone starts auto-attacking, they will not be able to claim the mob nearly as quickly.

Claim is not the same as enmity. A mob can be attacking a party while still being claimed by another party. Even if a mob is at 20% it can be claimed very quickly, even if it's still attacking you. That way you'll get hit, but you can't hit the mob back, and the other group will get a free and easy kill.

[Ihnako]

Claim is not the same as enmity. A mob can be attacking a party while still being claimed by another party. Even if a mob is at 20% it can be claimed very quickly, even if it's still attacking you. That way you'll get hit, but you can't hit the mob back, and the other group will get a free and easy kill.

That would be an attempted MPK and will be punished by GMs.

[Arcon]

That would be an attempted MPK and will be punished by GMs.

No and not to my knowledge.

[idx1]

Claim is not the same as enmity. A mob can be attacking a party while still being claimed by another party. Even if a mob is at 20% it can be claimed very quickly, even if it's still attacking you. That way you'll get hit, but you can't hit the mob back, and the other group will get a free and easy kill.

The situation I described that had quotes, 'hold claim' on a yellow mob, was more describing a situation where you still had at chance of killing it vs. it turning red and losing all say in the matter.
And for anybody to have a mob attack you at 20%, and it being held by another party, would indicate you were either PLing the whole time, or the party that had claim somehow lost all emnity from an emnity reset or wipe, or..?