Blizzard, please for the love of GoD, make it so clicking on quest objectives is an instant cast. I’ll often land next to something like an obelisk and I can’t click on it without a nearby mob interrupting me, so I’ll kill the mob and while I’m fighting it a jerkwad will fly down and take the quest objective because he has nothing interrupting his cast.
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Why does anyone else interacting with the objectives effect you in the first place?
Other players existing in a mulltiplayer game should not be an active hindrance to you.
If I get to an objective first, I should get it. I shouldn’t have to fight the pack of mobs guarding it so SOMEBODY ELSE can get it.
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Mind you, this is solely an 8.3 problem. For all the rest of BfA, your quest objective clickables were unique to you.
Even the stupid eyeball corruption keeps me from clicking on obelisks.
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There used to be some etiquette when stealing other peoples objectives but noone cares anymore, it’s a solo player game outside of raid and m+/pvp.
I did have someone invite me to a group before clicking on a prison the other day I was kind of surprised but it’s a doggy dog world out there and you just need to cc/stun/fear or what ever the mobs and click it before killing them otherwise this will happen.
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I don’t know why some objectives are shareable and others aren’t. They should just make all objects shareable.
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I know Blizzard needs to pad that time-played metric, but they should just give me more activities to do instead of making what few activities there are take longer to finish.
Somedays you get lucky, two Executors and a Soul Drinker for example.
This nonsense again.
You can not “steal” a quest objective. It is there for everyone who is on the quest. No one has more of a right to it than anyone else regardless of the circumstances. Period.
Faceless minions are shareable. Void tears are shareable. Things like banners and obelisks just breed resentment. They give us all these solo quests to do and then pit everybody against each other to collect the objectives.
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If someone wants to be a jerk about it then sure. A decent person could tell that someone fighting near an object is most likely waiting to use it though.
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I understand that but the thing is everyone complains about others “stealing” the quest objective as if they have some right to it over everyone else on the quest. Well they don’t.
sometimes you get it… sometimes you get got
as soon as bfa is available to all sub scrubs i will steal all objectives 
I think what he is saying is that you should follow someone else around and snag their objectives while they are fighting the guardians.
That seems to be the way the game is played, just ask any goblin.
Yes, I understand that you want it to be different, people rationally deciding to be better than grasping rabble, capitalizing on the misfortune of their fellows in struggle, but Goblin logic clearly dictates that the grabby hand meets all demands.
Some seem to want the kind game where you are cutting every throat in sight and making everyone you come across as miserable as possible.
–How to get rid of potential friends-- - Rule 273
Its not harassment if its built-in.
But perhaps you don’t agree with that? It does seem a little overly mid-body.
Your suggestion is a good one OP. Maybe no one should be playing the goblin version. It sounds like a terrible experience.
Truly spoken as someone who run in and snipes a quest objective while the person who got there first is tanking a pack of mobs.
They find it fun thinking about players stealing each others’ quest objectives.
There have always been people sniping quest objectives when they were intentionally designed to be snipeable. And that’s what we have now in 8.3.
Sometimes in a group one person clicks and everyone gets credit. Sometimes each person must click that item individually. Sometimes the item disappears after being clicked and everyone has to click all their own items to get credit.
And some quests have mixed objective types where one type of thing everyone gets credit for, and other types only one person does. So everybody doesn’t finish at once.
I have 2 accounts. One solos, one follows. One grabs the adds, and the other one runs over and clicks the quest item before some low life scumbag can snipe it.
Yup, I’ve been playing since vanilla I know the struggles of all of this, mostly I would just say suck it up and move on or better yet learn how to click that pillar before they do even if there are mobs on it, I’m sure most classes will have some type of cc you can use or you just better have some high damage in my opinion so you get the first click.
I can typically down any pack in a couple rotations but usually I’ll just blind or warstomp click then kill the mobs etc. I’ve obviously had people do the same thing when I don’t have my cc available and hit the pillar I was going for but the spawn rate is typically reasonable or even better go late at night or early in the morning, you’ll typically only run into oce/aus players at that point which is pretty scarce.
Most classes do not have aoe cc.
I have no intention of “sucking it up” and giving you full access to the quest item I am fighting for when I have already described for you a more effective method of guaranteeing I get it myself.
I wasn’t referring to you in particular, just in general. But yeah there are other ways like you said to get the same thing accomplished, just gotta be smart about it even if you don’t have aoe cc.
It’s pretty irrational to get upset over someone adding at most 15 seconds to your questing experience. It’s even less rational to make up your own rules surrounding them and expect that everyone follow them.
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