Rules regarding no-drop items and multiple characters

[Cecily]

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[Gumbo]

Wouldn't it just be easier to just have another player you know and trust and have them watch the corpse when you are switching characters?

This way you can get the no-drop loot and keep the camp.

[fennixad]

Originally Posted by Denswen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So I am thinking about farming a no-drop item on one of my characters for a separate character. To do so, I would have both in the same zone, kill the mob with one character, log out, login the second character, and loot. The problem is, I would have to wait until the timer wore off making it an open loot.

Since the item is fairly hotly contested, I am concerned about someone else looting the item off of me.

Are you allowed to "claim" a loot so that you can secure it for a character that is not currently logged in?

Where are you gonna do that, i will ninja it.

[chipz]

Sirken agreed that it is still only your loot.
He said its FFA if you're the only one in the zone. Haha. Joke. Of course no one else can loot it if no one else is there.

[Jaleth]

Originally Posted by chipz [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sirken agreed that it is still only your loot.
He said its FFA if you're the only one in the zone. Haha. Joke. Of course no one else can loot it if no one else is there.

Of course a scenario like this can happen, and probably has many times.

Player 1: kills the mob with his main and the item drops with no one in the zone. . . then logs out.
Player 2: logs in while Player 1 is transitioning to their alt

Player 2 doesn't see anyone else in the zone and comes across the corpse with no one else in site. The corpse is still locked most likely.

If player 1's alt is not there in the zone (theoretically traveling to the corpse) when the timer expires Player 2 can then loot the corpse.
I am not saying it is Player 2's item, but he/she did not know the item was claimed rightfully by Player 1 until too late.

I would hope in this scenario something could be worked out by the GM's giving player 1 the looted item, even though it could've been an unintentional "ninja loot".

[kaev]

Originally Posted by Jaleth [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Of course a scenario like this can happen, and probably has many times.

Player 1: kills the mob with his main and the item drops with no one in the zone. . . then logs out.
Player 2: logs in while Player 1 is transitioning to their alt

Player 2 doesn't see anyone else in the zone and comes across the corpse with no one else in site. The corpse is still locked most likely.

If player 1's alt is not there in the zone (theoretically traveling to the corpse) when the timer expires Player 2 can then loot the corpse.
I am not saying it is Player 2's item, but he/she did not know the item was claimed rightfully by Player 1 until too late.

I would hope in this scenario something could be worked out by the GM's giving player 1 the looted item, even though it could've been an unintentional "ninja loot".

The way you work it out is by not ninja'ing the corpse in the first place.

If it's not your kill, it's not your loot. There's nothing subtle or hard to understand there.

[Tenlaar]

Originally Posted by chipz [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sirken agreed that it is still only your loot.
He said its FFA if you're the only one in the zone. Haha. Joke. Of course no one else can loot it if no one else is there.

Yeah, pretty sure he meant if you don't have another person there with you to keep claim on the corpse/loot.

[Gain]

You could have a friend click on the corpse (assuming they were in the group for the kill) and lock the corpse down while you log on to your alt.

[Madbad]

I'm pretty sure they just recently released a PSA about keeping toons at char select for quick logging. It is now frowned upon and possibly bannable. Maybe only for pvp purposes though?

[Cecily]

That's not completely true. Even at the low standards I hold for you all, I think you can manage to refrain from ninjaing gear.