What is happening with tagging?

WoW Classic Cataclysm Classic Discussion
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Hi,

I was trying to farm motes on the elemental plateau @lvl66. The mobs there are lvl70-71 and thus take more than a few casts for a lvl66 char to kill. Even though I had tagged the mob and had taken say 10% of its hp, a lvl 70 would jump in now and then, finish off the mob and, despite me having tagged it first and done some damage to it, would be able to loot the mob. I also got no xp.

I found this a bit rude and annoying. Is it intended behaviour to prevent levelling by tagging mobs?

As I say, I 100% tagged the mob first and had done some of its HP in damage before anyone else arrived.

Cheers!

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What’s next?

This is just plain stupidity.

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This is griefing, report

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Not by any fault of the level 70 if he can loot a tagged mob - it’s a bug!

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He could reduce your exp gain by doing some damage, but that is it.

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Sure, but if he kept doing it after the first mob its griefing

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OK, yes, you’re rigth. But it’s still a bug that he can loot it in the first place, and that’s what should be stopped. This is Classic, not Retail.

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Yes, is it like that on retail? Dosent both get credit for the kill there?

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I can’t say. too long since I played there. But it should not be like this in Classic, and that’s the point here.

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Agreed, this is silly

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Was it a level 70 DK? If so are you sure you got the tag, as grip gives tag rights.

If not, it is a bug.

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I’m absolutely positive that I had the tag, in every case the mob had taken around 20% damage from me from several frostbolts etc. The 70 was also a mage. They would simply see I was busy with a mob and start attacking it too. The mobs nameplate changed from red to grey and after it died, I couldn’t loot it, got no xp from the kill and they got the loot.

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not sure this acutally happend. if it did, report it as a bug. in WotlK you tag a mob the moment you attack it ( not even the moment you do dmg to it)

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I wouldn’t be here making a thread about something that didn’t happen :slight_smile: I have the feeling this is behaviour intended to prevent levelling via mob tagging, which went through some nerfs in TBC classic. Either that or it is a bug that is incredibly easy to replicate.

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Does it only happen there? Because yesterday a level ^^ horde saved my a** in Blasted Lands, and I got loot and credit - me Ally :wink:

Questions:
Was the level 70 mage same faction or opposite?
Does it only happen in that one place?

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The behaviour you mention, i.e. prevent levelling via mob tagging, is countered by reduced XP you get from a mob you tag and another person kills. Normally, you can still loot the mob you tagged. What you experienced sounds like a bug; report it in game!

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