While the ability to become red and PK someone is part of the design of this game, it should never be possible to actively reduce progress from another player by griefing.

Mob feeding is something that happens way too often. Malicious players purposefully don't finish off the player they're attacking in an attempt to let a mob deliver the last hit, hoping the victim loses crystals and experience.

I propose a system wherein players that get CC-ed or damaged by another player will not receive any PvE penalty if the player happens to get last hit by a mob during the CC or for a 5-seconds lingering timeframe after that to allow the player to run away from the mobs once recovered.

You can simply credit the kill to the offending player instead of the mob, and handle it as if the offending player made the kill.

There was such system on GLabs with sherriff system. But I guess Devs dont make it live because is the only way to deal with the other griefing - karmabombing. Both should be punisheble, but I gues until devs find solution for karmabombing, mob feeding wil lexist to have some balance...

Declaring war is a better way to deal with karma bombing than mob feeding. The player can throw his body all day long and your karma stays the same.

Of course, a solution against guildless players should still be in place. Therefore, I think the best thing is to apply my original proposal in the form of a passive guild perk or something, meaning that only players in a guild can benefit from mob feeding protection.

Dfs, feed, grief, karmabomb come from the same player.
He want your spot : dfs, he loose, try to feed, he fails, try to grief, you try to kill him with alt c, karmabomb

Just add report option for theses players and ban theme from this game.

Never realized this until you mention it now, you're completely correct!

It's all rooted in a sense of entitlement, the player thinking the whole world revolves around him and a complete lack of empathy towards other players. They rather steal your spot than look around for an empty spot, which is 9 out of 10 times available.

No, the DFS player is being nice when he asks for a DFS.  Because the other option is the feed grief karmabombing.  The player that asks you for a DFS isn't the same player that is going to do the other 3 options.  

Yes. I do agree that mobfeeding is a bad thing to do. But the situation is kind of paradoxal.

There's this word "karmabombing", which is also considered as a bad action to do, the only way as several posters had already mentioned is through mobfeeding.

While according to the topic, you want mobfeeding to be gone. I also agree that it shouldn't be a thing. However. When it comes to KB, it's going to be a bad decision at the same time. Some said: "Fight griefing with griefing." Like "Fight fire with fire". And therefore we're in a stalemate. I certainly don't expect those problems to be solved very soon, but I keep faith that some other day, I'll see something to catch my attention. To solve one problem, another has to be resolved first. That's how I see it.

In short: It's both a good and a bad idea right now. I hope you understand me. To me it's a complicated situation.

Sorry. But I can't agree to this for personal views. No offense.

I am coming up on 5 years in BDO.  I have hundreds if not thousands of DFS requests and acceptances.  With the exception of maybe 2 everyone has honored the DFS request and left after.  Now I have had people that come up and just flag, then things escalate from there, those just flags usually happened when I was between guilds.  I have also had hundreds of people, almost all unguilded, just go into where I was grinding see me actively killing a rotation, say nothing attack the pack I am attacking, then skip the next pack and start grinding from there, then ignore every attempt at communication, those encounters ended with me CC spamming those players until they died to mobs, or got so bored because they couldn't actually grind ultimately leaving.  I learned like 4 years ago that invaders that ignore you don't care when you kill them, and the only way to deal with a griefer is to grief harder.

Another alternative to DFS is to simply find another spot.

Most grind locations in the game have multiple rotations, and even orcs usually has a free rotation somewhere (outside peak hours).

Whenever I start orcs I just search for an empty spot, instead of forcefully taking someone else's spot because hey, that player most likely has a wide variety of buffs running, elixirs and perfumes, and possibly even a weapon. If I can't find a free spot, I server swap and try again. If that server is full too, I just wait 15 minutes for the next swap, while moving on to an alt and doing something different.

What also helps is to simply ask players how long they have left. More often than not, you get an honest answer. By communicating in an adult manner and being patient, you make the life of both players a lot more enjoyable than just barging in with "dfs" and ruining someone's grind.