May I skin your kills?Follow

Rofl, even if it was his kill, i'd still skin it,he can just kill another. Mining, i take no prisoners, whoever gets their first, wins.

Early on I used to ask first. The more I played, the more I noticed the difference between folks just grinding (walking in a line killing mobs) and folks who were farming.(killing several mobs in one area and then skinning them all at once)

Now it's rare for me to ask, usually only if the guy is just standing there next to a corpse.

To answer the one post: I actually had someone in Redridge tell me "No u cant." when I asked to skin the black whelp he'd just killed. "Oh sorry, are you a skinner?" I ask. "No u just cnt." Oh really? (skin, skin, skin, you receive medium leather) "Thanks f@cko, preciate it." /salute. I have no patience for jerks. Oh to be on a PVP just then.

In terms of mining, it's a tough call. If the guy's standing right next to a node fighting something I stop and wait to see if he mines it after he's done killing the mob. However, sometimes you just can't tell. The other guy might be 40-50 yards away or fighting a mob at the entrance to a cave or valley with the node down inside. Why would I pst him to ask about the node then? Just so he can say, whether it's true or not, "yeh dat is mine."

Edited, Feb 18th 2007 5:21pm by Lathby

Edited, Feb 18th 2007 5:21pm by Lathby

Lol, yeah good idea. I second your opinion that is an unpopular opinion.

i havent really had much competition with skinning and herbing. currently im in un goro, and theres not much competition, since theres so many skinnable dino's around. the herbing isnt too bad either, i really dont see anyone beating me to an herb, or competing with me for that matter. my skin/herb are both 300 so its not that big of a deal if someone beats me to it. im usually just farming and grinding at the same time anyway.

as for being polite, i dont ask someone to skin their kills. if they leave it behind, i take it. i dont go out of my way to do it though, just if its along the way, i'll skin the leftovers, but i dont hover. once again i grind/farm, so i wanna get my xp too.

I usually don't ask, but wait to see if they are going to skin them or not. Same for a mine, if someone is fighting next to it, I`ll usually help them with the kills if there's a lot and see if they take it or not.

I had a guy skin something that's mine once, and I skinned his next 3 kills. He left me alone. The worst that happened to me was when leveling a new alt in a newbie area, a lv60 moron started following me, one-shotting everything I attacked, then skinning them. I wasn't skinning those, so I didn't mind but I did mind receiving no XP for any of my kills.... I had to quickly claim as many mobs as I could and leave the unlooted corpses for him to give up.

Rofl, go back to your Rp realm, quick and painful death, ha, ha, ha.

Yea i know a few "teaM" players i would love to kill

I don't ask to skin but I wait and watch long enough to be sure they aren't planning on skinning it themselves. You can't always ask anyways if the person doing the killing is of the opposing faction.

As far as mines go, I will usually make sure a person killing near a mine isn't going to take it. When I go out just to mine, I usually pick areas where most of the mobs won't aggro on me so there isn't really much of a chance of me ending up clearing mines for others to steal.


The 'bots' are a problem though. When my boyfriend was doing the quests in Shimmering Flats he found a player who would try to skin things that my boyfriend was already skinning. My boyfriend would run over to another player's abandoned skinnable kill and a second later the 'bot' would show up and do the skinning motion. We figured it had to be a 'bot' since an active player would see that there was someone already skinning the corpse and would go to one of the other skinnable corpses lying around. It was annoying but he simply quit looting his kills until he was sure he wasn't going to get adds while he skinned.

I second that (pally here too). If they're the other faction it's par for the course, but it kind of sucks the rare time a fellow Alliance does it.



^_^ Great story.

If someone is standing/sitting next to a corpse, I will ask if I may skin. For all I know they might be drinking, talking to someone, checking something on Allah, whatever. Doesn't cost me anything to ask before running up and skinning a critter. Not like there will ever be a critter shortage! :)

However, if they run off to the next critter without skinning (unless they are attacked by something else right away at the previous corpse) then the body is freely skinnable IMO and I don't ask.

On behalf of rogues everywhere, there are a lot of occasions when I'm heading towards a mine spot in stealth (so that I don't have to fight my way there) and while I'm clearly working my way there, someone else rushes in to kill the things guarding it and take the node. I recognize that they can't see me very effectively, and so I don't get upset, but it's really annoying when it happens.

As it has been said above i usually waited till they move on to a next combat phase(as in if they were fighting two monsters wait till they kill both then skin as they run away).

This is how i had skilled up my skinning and made some money. A opposite faction player was plowing through all of the beasts(he was a few levels higher by 2-5 levels) and i tagged along and probably got 5 stacks in VERY little time.

After reading the forum I actually asked someone if they were in fact a skinner. Turns out they were, we had a long chat and all was cool at the end. Bottom line...If someone's killing in an area asking is better than annoying.