I encourage all new players to take a minute and look at this.

[Wellz]

Hi guys, I'm relatively new to the game myself as well, but there is a useful piece of information that most people don't seem to realize.

If you find yourself doing a quest, or just finishing your "Hunting Log" and someone else tags the mob before you do, don't just turn around and walk away, as long as you still inflict at least 30% of the damage before it dies, you still get credit, exp as well.

During the last couple of phases, I noticed a lot of people who did not know this.
And no, I am not assuming, whenever I noticed someone walking away from my mob, I would personally take the time and pm them with this information.

So I figured that instead of keeping the trend, I would just make a post on the forums about it, and hopefully as many new players as possible would see this.

Kind of a lengthy post but I wanted to be thorough.

[TheRoku]

Do we get the same amount of exp as if we would kill it all by ourself though?

[Arikaen]

And to add to your post The Orange Juice is in a shop in Uldahl.

[BlossomRose]

Do we get the same amount of exp as if we would kill it all by ourself though?

Yes.

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[daiceman]

Do we get the same amount of exp as if we would kill it all by ourself though?

Yes, and I believe that the 30% number probably even lower for fate mobs.

[FutanXIV]

And to add to your post The Orange Juice is in a shop in Uldahl.

lol. There's one in Limsa too in Hawker's Alley.

[Punainen]

Personally, I often walk away from claimed mobs because I want drops, or simply wish to have the experience of killing the thing myself. I feel less accomplished if someone else did most of the killing.

[Tohf]

Do we get the same amount of exp as if we would kill it all by ourself though?

Yes, just no drops from the mob I believe.

[Wellz]

Do we get the same amount of exp as if we would kill it all by ourself though?

Not entirely sure, I believe you might, here is why.

In other mmorpgs, the amount of exp you get, corresponds the amount of damage you inflicted on it before it dies.
Ex: In WoW, if you tag the mob, but only inflict 10% of damage, while someone else does the other 90%, you only get 10% of the exp it would have other wise have given.

Now on FFXIV ARR on the other hand, given how it is necessary to do at least 30% and it to counts towards your quest, I assume that as long as you do 30%, you should get the whole amount, I would try this out and let you know for certain, but well... servers are down for another 14hours :P.

But the point of the post, was to raise awareness of sharing mobs when completing quests/hunting logs.

[BlossomRose]

The amount of damage you have to do is either 20%, 25% or 30%. It's in that range, at any rate, and I say this as a caster who got frustrated trying to tag FATE mobs when everyone else was a pugilist or gladiator. In the 2.5 seconds it takes me to nuke a mob, so many players have already hit it, that getting the second cast necessary for credit wasn't possible.

So it's definitely in the 20% - 30% range, but not higher from what I saw, and not lower.

You do get full experience, and quest drops. Normal item drops, I'm not so sure.