On crafting and resource theft.

[Gilthas]

People claiming several mobs at the same is indeed an annoyance.

The situation can be easily solved by making it impossible to have claim on more than one mob.

Though a better solution would be to just add the highly contested drops to the loot pool of more monsters.

[Freakiie]

And why shouldn't you be able to claim more than one mob? What the hell are AoEs for if you aren't allowed to use them?

If someone got to a spawn before you did tough luck. Or do you want FFXIV to make all the areas instanced so you never have to bother bumping into people in an MMO if you don't want to?

[AscendantManes]

This. I mean, I main ACN, and I agree with this. This would bring too many problems.

And my issue with the claiming to get normal drops is that it turns the crafting game into a passive-aggressive, forced PvP.

While I agree that being able to only claim one mob would be a dumb idea, the rest of your response seems to be a knee-jerk reaction to the suggestion. Just treating monster drops the same as quest mobs (being able to damage a claimed mob for quest drop) would be a big step in the right direction, if not outright the solution.

[faris]

If you see someone farming in an area, and camp over them, it's just rude. Very rude.

Personally, If I see someone camping an area I want, I find other groups of the same mob in the same area or move to a different mob family in a different area for other things, but practically no-one I've met is ever that considerate. If I get camped on, I compete and drive them away through killing everything before they can. OP, can I ask what material you're after? If it's Diremite webs, there's a few really decent leves in Quarrymill which offer 15+ webs as a reward for very simple synths. That helped me get over the Diremite web hurdle.

[Freakiie]

This. I mean, I main ACN, and I agree with this. This would bring too many problems.

And my issue with the claiming to get normal drops is that it turns the crafting game into a passive-aggressive, forced PvP.

While I agree that being able to only claim one mob would be a dumb idea, the rest of your response seems to be a knee-jerk reaction to the suggestion. Just treating monster drops the same as quest mobs (being able to damage a claimed mob for quest drop) would be a big step in the right direction, if not outright the solution.

Uhmm no, that would not be the solution, that would be asking for horrible abuse. Get 2 buddies (Don't party ofc), have each of you do 1/3rd of the dmg and voila suddenly one mob gives 3 drops!

[Underlord]

Im about 99% sure that anyone who does at least 30% of the damage on the mob can receive a drop from said mob.

Not true. There's times I would try to claim a mob, someone beats me to it. Then I one shot kill mob with like 90% of life left n I don't get any drop.

[DanteMog]

People are also trying to get their quests done, i had this issue in coerthas, wouldn't even let me tag 5 mobs and move on, would have took less than 5 min but nope had to take 30+ trying to tag these off of greedy mats farmers and bots.. whm is incredibly slow at killing Aero or not.

Honestly this game is limited in so many ways its stupid.

[Selemar]

If you see someone farming in an area, and camp over them, it's just rude. Very rude.

Personally, If I see someone camping an area I want, I find other groups of the same mob in the same area (partial quote due to char restriction).

Enjoy this pattern of thinking until you get to fleece... and you go to the camp and there are people there 24 hours a day (usually 3-4 of them fighting over the spawn). You will either try to bully your way in and get your fair share.. or you can pray that one time in the next 40 times you go there.. you might get to farm for 3min until someone else comes along. (On a side note, I kind of enjoy the competition over spawns... half my friends list has come from such activity)

[faris]

Enjoy this pattern of thinking until you get to fleece... and you go to the camp and there are people there 24 hours a day (usually 3-4 of them fighting over the spawn). You will either try to bully your way in and get your fair share.. or you can pray that one time in the next 40 times you go there.. you might get to farm for 3min until someone else comes along. (On a side note, I kind of enjoy the competition over spawns... half my friends list has come from such activity)

Don't bully your way in. It's inconsiderate, and it's not your "fair share" if someone else is there first.
Wait for a quiet part, (it should vary on your server's timezones) get some fleece, and go to Whitebrim. Make tights. Reward is 15fleece/leve.
It is doable using the leves. Very much so, actually.

[Rydin]

Why wouldn't SE just increase the spawns of enemies that drop mats