Looting Rant

[savaughn]

High levels generally aren't fighting to the node.  They're walking around thanks to their reduced aggro radius while you have to fight to get to it.
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To copper? Walking along the edges of the mountains gets you there with no aggro issues 9 out of 10 times. But regardless, the expectation being placed here is that a person standing in front of a copper mine should look around and see if there is someone fighting any where in the area and if there is, not mine the node? Oh, there's a gnome fighting off in the distance, he may or may not be heading here. I should stop playing, wait for him to finish his fight, engage him in conversation to find out if he may or may not be interested in mining this copper node, and only then should I proceed to mine it. And it's being suggested that this is the obvious, intuitive, and morally obligated set of behavior.

If you're right on top of the mine, it's obvious you're going there and other players should respect that. If you aren't there yet, you aren't there yet. The only exception to this is when a node is "guarded", such as the nodes in the wolf lairs in Elwynn or the trogg nests in Loch Modan. Just like chests, tif you clear these, it's fair you get them. But fully expecting other players to guess your intent - I don't expect that as a low level character, and wouldn't expect it as a high level. That's just not playing well with others.