Question about gathering etiquette

[Glimbo]

Hi,

i've been leveling mining on my current character and i dont understand the mining etiquette. when i start mining a node occasionally somebody else will join which results in us sharing the vein. i dont mind since that way we both get a skillpoint.

however ive had people insult me for doing the same thing effectively them claiming the whole vein for themselves because they got there a few seconds before i did.

what gives?

[Tuffknuckles]

don't read chat
target them
/lol while harvesting no matter what they said

[Jan125]

Only the first hit gives skill points.
If someone is on a vein, stay the fiddlesticks away.

[Madmane]

The retail mentality of "everything is mine, even if it's yours" is infectious and needs to be pushed away.

If you got to the node first, just shift-click and sit there until they go away.

[FrankFankledank]

Share the taps for pre-300 nodes so everyone gets a skill up. Anyone who complains is a dweebus, call them that verbatim.

Endgame nodes are fair game.

[Drubarrymooer]

The retail mentality of "everything is mine, even if it's yours" is infectious and needs to be pushed away.

If you got to the node first, just shift-click and sit there until they go away.

This is the way

[Fizzler]

I would just mine the vein and wait until the player goes away. People can't mine from what I remember if you don't loot it yet.

[Skrofler]

Share the taps for pre-300 nodes so everyone gets a skill up. Anyone who complains is a dweebus, call them that verbatim.

Endgame nodes are fair game.

Sharing skill would be nice but we all know it will just end with me having 1 mithril ore and they having 3. I'll wear my dweebus t-shirt with pride, thank you.

[Steakhouse]

When someone is already mining a node I'll just tap it for the skill point without actually looting it, that way the player who got to it first gets the full loot but I still get a skill point. Everybody wins !