What exactly constitutes kill stealing?
 

OK, the reason I have made this thread is because I have been in numerous situations where I have been called a kill stealer(KSer) or have been KS'd. So, what exactly needs to happen for someone to have really KS'd?

Let's start with some obvious situations:

• You or your party is killing a mob and someone comes up and starts killing it.

Great! We have the definite's out of the way. Now what about the ones that people have different opinions on?

Let us list some of those shall we?

• Someone is killing a mob and another one starts attacking that person. You attack the one that hasn't been damaged.
• You have been killing in a spot for quite a while in a certain spot. Suddenly a person takes all the mobs and proceeds to do an AOE party right next to you. You pull one of the mobs not yet damaged and kill it.
• A non-aoe class(I.E. Cleric) pulls two or more of a mob when there is many around. You take the one not being damaged.
• A non-aoe class(I.E. Cleric) pulls two or more of a mob when there is not many around. You take the one not being damaged.
• Someone calls a certain mob that spawns rarely. You get to it first. Did you KS?
• Someone has declared a "spot" in which every mob is his. You attack one of the mobs he isn't attacking.

Personally, I go by my own rules when it comes to KS'ing and tell people too bad if they think otherwise:

1. If someone is attacking a mob, don't attack it.
2. "Spots" don't exists. You can't declare a certain area only yours.
3. If there is more than one spot for the mob don't go where someone else is killing. (I.E. Orcs)
4. If many people are soloing and a party decides to aoe everything leaving nothing for anyone else, take one of their mobs. It's not fair to everyone else.
5. For any class but clerics, more than 5 mobs is a little greedy. Again it's not fair to steal all the mobs of an area when people are soloing there.
6. If your a cleric, one mob at a time. Deal with it. (Unless it's a rarer mob that spawns less than normal.)

Comments?

^ [1st one] People consider it kill stealing since they drew the monster's aggro first... Well some people...

^ [2nd one] I hate it when that happens to me and I take any mobs not damaged yet.

Not only the action but the intent matters I guess. Though that's hard to gauge in a MMORPG, it's excusable if someone is lagging or just auto-tabbed.


Yeah, there's the obvious KSing where they don't care that they're hitting mobs that you were already killing, but in every other situation that's vague you should try to talk it out instead of getting right down to petulant crys of 'NOob KSer!!1 I kill you and GW!!' that so often seem to start at the drop of a hat. If they're after a mob for a quest that you're killing, why don't you just party for a while or make a more long-term grind party.

I was in goblin camp killing mushrooms and captains in my favorite spot. Now there are a lot of spawns in this area so I don't claim to have the entire thing beacause there are a lot of monsters in the area.

But once someone on a racoon comes zipping through and pulls them all like 10 monsters as I am trying to pull one of the Mushrooms.

Well I pull the mushroom and kill it and this person yells out I didn't pull all the monsters so you could pick one off.

My reply was sorry didn't really mean to do that to you. I've been killing here for over a half of an hour until you came along and took the entire area over. Sorry that I took one.

They just left the area after that. Which is worse kill stealing or monster hogging.

In Fiesta... As long as that person has the aggro first, the mob is theirs..

Doesnt matter what class they are. I'm a cleric and if I aggroed 10 mobs then they're all mine unless I ask for help.

No such thing as spot claiming. Again, whoever got the aggro first, gets the mob. But as courtesy you don't go invading a space that someone is already grinding in.

AOE party get watever they aggro first.

Basically, when you hit a mob that's already hitting someone else, you're KSing. Doesnt matter if they're in party or wat class they are.

I have to thoroughly disagree. Having agro'd 2 of something while there are plenty of mobs around, I'm going to take the one your not killing. Once you finish killing the one, go get another yourself. One party just doesn't have the right to take an entire mob spawn because they can and agro'd first.

Thats just plain bull**** in my opinion.

I disagree with that. If there are plenty of mobs around, why don't *you* go and get another one yourself?

Why should I have to go find the mob I want when that person isn't attacking it. Depending on the situation I could have to fight through something completly different to get to it. Let's say I was in Vine Tomb fighting Hobs. Someone takes two of the last spawns in the area. I could go move to where there is more hobs that is packed with ghosts, spiders, and imps; or I could take the mob he isn't attacking. I compeltly thing that is greed especially when you can't even aoe.

IMO

I don't unless that person asks for help. You never know how people react and why bother risking getting someone upset.
KS. Not a big deal for me if someone were to do it though.
If they pull it, it's theirs.
Still theirs.
No.
No.

My least favorite situation is when two people attack the monster at the same time. It happens more often on my Archer than it does on my Cleric but I did it yesterday on my Cleric too and the other person accused me of KSing even though we attacked it at the same time. -.-

In that scenario, I say both people can keep attacking and neither would be KSing and whoever gets the drops, gets the drops.