Sharing Trees.

I don't remember seeing this in FFXI, but in XI, I think it's one person to a tree. But if it isn't, that's okay. I'm wrong. That's not the point of the post. ;)

Regardless of what I remember about trees in XI, in XIV, it looks like more than one person can harvest from the same tree. If there are two people harvesting the same tree, will this affect your current amount of attempts you can harvest the tree?

A little side story to my inquiry: I was harvesting a tree one night, and this guy jumps in and chops with me. It's cool. I don't care; I assumed it's normal for people to share trees in XIV. After I'm done, I click on Arbor Call and follow it to the next tree. That guy who was chopping with me was already here. So, I just did what he did and proceed to chop with him. He gives me a dirty look (is it /glare or /stare? I don't know), and says, "Go away."

So it's cool for him to chop the tree I'm chopping, but he gets all mad when I chop the same tree with him? I see how it is.

lol some... *ahem* most people are douches.

Unless this changed since after 1.18 (I doubt it has), one player's gathering has no effect on another player's gathering in terms of success rates, number of attempts, etc. The only way you can affect another player is if you trigger the 'The Tree has been exhausted' (or whatever it says), and the gathering point despawns; in that case, the other gatherer will be forced to abort the remainder of their gathering attempts at that gathering point, but this is certainly no reason to get upset that someone is logging alongside you (unless they're way under-ranked for the gathering grade and are following you around to find trees, frequently triggering the 'tree has been exhausted' message).

Your situation sounds fine, unless you're doing that last thing I mentioned. You're probably just logging alongside someone who should be playing a single-player game; heaven forbid he see someone else doing the same thing as he is.

Ya you can have multiple people to a node, no problems at all. I would only get annoyed if you are too low for the grade as that seems to deplete the node faster

At CE launch there were 15 people per tree, lol.

Trees exhaust over time, but its not a big deal, just spawns near by.

Good deal! Thanks very much for the info.