Spiritbonding while in a party grants no benefit to crafting or gathering, but you still receive the penalty to your spiritbonding rate while in a party. This serves no purpose and makes players have to leave parties whenever they want to craft or gather if they want to gain the full benefit of spiritbonding. It's quite a pain.
Please remove the penalty to spiritbonding while in a party for crafting and gathering actions.
Unless things changed since 2.30, you should still get spiritbond for nearby party member kills while on your crafter in crafting gear. But it is silly that penalty exists when rest of party is in other zone or offline.
Nearby party member kills are monster kills, not crafting or gathering actions. I'm not asking for a change to kills. I just want the actual act of crafting or gathering to not have a senseless penalty. There's no benefit to crafting or gathering in a party, and yet it has this penalty imposed on it.