Meh mistake is understandable taken from the quote it sounds like they are implying that when gathering with the offhand attempts are based on the amount of people gathering. They didn't clarify that when multiple people are gathering the node hops around. There's no mention of the node hoping around it only states that in a literal sense, "When I am gathering it's harder to gather because there are so many people gathering with their offhand and this drop rate is alrdy low, it just makes it even harder to obtained" So it sounds like they are implying that the drop rate is lowered even more when more people are gathering, not the fact that node jumping makes it tedious to do when multiple people are gathering in the same area.