Don't Be Greedy!

[Rylee]

Do you really need it all? I can't be the only one who gets kinda annoyed when I see people pulling multiple camps together or making the rounds when there's other people trying to farm as well.

Is it really that hard to back off of one spot if you see someone there?

I know that some of this, if not a lot, is probably bots farming but... If you're an actual player and you're guilty of the above, could you please show just a little common courtesy? Keep to one or two spots and give others the chance to farm drops ^^ Most of the mobs that are being farmed have a fairly decent respawn rate so it really would not kill someone to sit for a moment at one spot.

[NightWrath]

respawn rate in here sux, that's why most ppl like to make a path of full time killing. and i wouldn't let anyone get it easy, if a mob is red for me, i wont let it go. if u want some, then tag first.

[Klutz64]

The only thing that annoys me is when someone is farming a mob I need for a quest or hunting log. Otherwise the game is unfortunately designed to make farming easy by clustering all of one mob in a tiny area and making respawns fast and predictable.

[Reiterpallasch]

Let me see if I'm understanding this correctly:

People who are farming a lot of mobs, are greedy.

People who show up and demand that they not farm so many so that THEY can now have the mobs instead, are not?

[Ryios]

Farming in this game is a joke... There's what, 3 items in the game that even need farmed? There are so much better ways of making Gil and way more efficient.

[Astarica]

Pulling everything is a bad idea unless you're sure everyone else is a good guy (and thus will back off from your territory). This is because the ability to tag anything is limited to 1 per GCD (mobs generally are way too spaced out to tag them with AEs), so if you get someone angry enough, you basically end up splitting the camp which is likely not what you intended. As is true in most prisonner's dilemma scenario, the optimal strategy is start off being a nice guy and then switch to being a jerk if anyone dared to cross you.

[Ryios]

BLM Scathe is pretty good at tagging everything. When I'm in a fate pt on my BLM I generally get 4+ pages of tags just spamming scathe. And when it's up I swift cast Fire II. And if a bunch of mobs are on me not tagged, swift cast blizzard II.

[Bizniztyme]

Invite them to party and share the loot Makes farming less boring even though you get slightly less loot.

[mythicrose]

Let me see if I'm understanding this correctly:

People who are farming a lot of mobs, are greedy.

People who show up and demand that they not farm so many so that THEY can now have the mobs instead, are not?

The farmer is being greedy by not giving up 4 or so mobs. It's rather difficult for melee to tag a mob before ranged that have instant attacks and can typically find a spot to tag all mobs with a quick tab/attack rotation. The melee pretty much has to learn where a mob is going to spawn for a chance of getting one by standing on that very spot and spamming the class's fastest animated attack. Seeing how you have a level 50 archer, you should know this.

[Astarica]

If your class has a tagging advantage over your competitor there is more incentive to be a jerk. That said, from my farming experiences, people will rarely actually compete against you in any well defined camp, because they know that is difficult unless you're a melee and they're a BLM. However, people will compete against you when you try to cover more than 1 camp. What they can do is simply help you kill the mobs on camp 2 that's not within casting range from camp 1. This ensures all the mobs in camp 2 will respawn before the guy is done with camp 1 the next cycle, and then he'd be pretty helpless to tag those mobs from that point on, as now the mobs are respawning too fast for him to cover with his own DPS.