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Posted by: JVJD.4912

JVJD.4912

I for one supported the guild wars 2 devs for the purpose of adding it which was – to help players new and old in the game, however in beta we all mentioned that this is going to be abused a lot to which in your dev talks you all say “The good outweighs the bad”

Well not in this case,because this tag is gated poorly literally every person who purchased Hot has it and today our teq event was flooded with 15 – 20 tags and there were ppl running everywhere and we barely succeeded with this event, champ farms are even worse with groups getting split all over the map ruining event progression.
I have no idea how many legit newbies get trolled by these apples each day but i will leave it for them to speak up

This tag is not being used to “mentor” ppl at all hence it is not for-filling its purpose, either push it to rank 5 or remove it

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Posted by: Calcifire.1864

Calcifire.1864

I have no idea how many legit newbies get trolled by these apples each day but i will leave it for them to speak up

strangely, not a single newbie has complained, every single complaint has been from veteran players, usually with commander tags moaning how there are too many tags on the map now.

strangely, despite how many people complain about the entire map wearing mentor tags, nobody in my guild has ever seen more than three up at a time.

it’s almost like people are lying to make the problem bigger than it is. I wonder why?

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Posted by: Artemis Thuras.8795

Artemis Thuras.8795

It’s funny, I misinterpreted the original info on it. I thought it would req maxed mastery to begin with.

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Posted by: hgkmaxymus.9321

hgkmaxymus.9321

I have no idea how many legit newbies get trolled by these apples each day but i will leave it for them to speak up

strangely, not a single newbie has complained, every single complaint has been from veteran players, usually with commander tags moaning how there are too many tags on the map now.

strangely, despite how many people complain about the entire map wearing mentor tags, nobody in my guild has ever seen more than three up at a time.

it’s almost like people are lying to make the problem bigger than it is. I wonder why?

Well, newbies don’t know the game / forum. =P

I mean, they think it was always this messed up. MAybe the newbie see this mess and don’t want to play anymore? I don’t know.

Probably, with time, the Mentor tag will be used only for the intended purpose, to mentor newbies, but now, it is just a mess =/

This is MADNESS!!!

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Posted by: Okhu.7948

Okhu.7948

I have no idea how many legit newbies get trolled by these apples each day but i will leave it for them to speak up

strangely, not a single newbie has complained, every single complaint has been from veteran players, usually with commander tags moaning how there are too many tags on the map now.

strangely, despite how many people complain about the entire map wearing mentor tags, nobody in my guild has ever seen more than three up at a time.

it’s almost like people are lying to make the problem bigger than it is. I wonder why?

You hit the nail on the head. People tend to come onto the forums to make problems seem bigger than they are.

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Posted by: Redenaz.8631

Redenaz.8631

I have a hard time believing you nearly failed Tequatl because of too many mentor tags. Most people who do Tequatl now seem to know the event well enough that they don’t even need commanders, so I find it hard to believe mentor tags were a crippling distraction.

I do think players should have the option to turn off mentor tags on their screens, simply because of the clutter and potential for clutter, but I think the same thing about commander tags.

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Posted by: zaxziakohl.5243

zaxziakohl.5243

I also thought it was going to require actually completing the mastery to get the tag. However seeing as how hard it will be to get that last tier, I could see ANet understandably put it at tier 3 or so. But right of the bat on tier one? Bad move.

Also maybe some cosmetic changing on the map tags. It is REALLY hard to see commander tags in comparison to mentor tags, especially if near eachother.

And no, I am not, nor have ever had commander tags. I speak as someone who looks for them when running trains. Most of the people running around with mentor tags up aren’t actually leading anything…. commanders are much more likely to be.

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Posted by: Calcifire.1864

Calcifire.1864

I have no idea how many legit newbies get trolled by these apples each day but i will leave it for them to speak up

strangely, not a single newbie has complained, every single complaint has been from veteran players, usually with commander tags moaning how there are too many tags on the map now.

strangely, despite how many people complain about the entire map wearing mentor tags, nobody in my guild has ever seen more than three up at a time.

it’s almost like people are lying to make the problem bigger than it is. I wonder why?

Well, newbies don’t know the game / forum. =P

I mean, they think it was always this messed up. MAybe the newbie see this mess and don’t want to play anymore? I don’t know.

Probably, with time, the Mentor tag will be used only for the intended purpose, to mentor newbies, but now, it is just a mess =/

it’s actually rather funny. yesterday I was doing Tarir, three mentors and one commander were leading.

there were two other commander tags on the map, both whining for help for hero pointsat the mushroom king and vinetooth, and amusingly demanding the mentors detag because they were distracting people from the commander tags.

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Posted by: Menadena.7482

Menadena.7482

I for one supported the guild wars 2 devs for the purpose of adding it which was – to help players new and old in the game, however in beta we all mentioned that this is going to be abused a lot to which in your dev talks you all say “The good outweighs the bad”

Well not in this case,because this tag is gated poorly literally every person who purchased Hot has it and today our teq event was flooded with 15 – 20 tags and there were ppl running everywhere and we barely succeeded with this event, champ farms are even worse with groups getting split all over the map ruining event progression.
I have no idea how many legit newbies get trolled by these apples each day but i will leave it for them to speak up

This tag is not being used to “mentor” ppl at all hence it is not for-filling its purpose, either push it to rank 5 or remove it

This is going to be fun once I am done with my Halloween stuff and the pact mastery line. I organize teq a LOT and tend to get annoyed if anyone who is not doing something to help the event tags up. It only increases the confusion when the actual commanders are trying to remove some of the chaos.

Fortunately I have decided to do TT only with organized guilds. I was yelled at when I tagged up for my party at one of their Teqs so I assume they will not tolerate it if people start using mentor tags at their TTs. Teq will be a nightmare though. At maw last night I lost count of how many mentor tags were around.

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Posted by: Menadena.7482

Menadena.7482

I have no idea how many legit newbies get trolled by these apples each day but i will leave it for them to speak up

strangely, not a single newbie has complained, every single complaint has been from veteran players, usually with commander tags moaning how there are too many tags on the map now.

strangely, despite how many people complain about the entire map wearing mentor tags, nobody in my guild has ever seen more than three up at a time.

it’s almost like people are lying to make the problem bigger than it is. I wonder why?

I wonder why as well since I see many of them all the time. Yes, I have the commander tag ankitten ot crying over having paid for it. I was a mentor before we had even heard of mentor tags so, yes, I am upset that people are wearing them who are not mentoring.

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Posted by: MrH.2591

MrH.2591

The apple when used correctly is great. If we’re missing a 4th commander on Octovine and I apple up and lead a side how is that a bad thing? Just because someone paid 300g it doesn’t make them a good leader.

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Posted by: Aerwyna.2541

Aerwyna.2541

Ive only seen 3 since HoT released lol :o

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Posted by: Just a flesh wound.3589

Just a flesh wound.3589

It’s funny. I haven’t seen these crowds of Apple tags that everyone is complaining about. I’ve done Teq, no apples. Haven’t seen them outside of one on a city or one at the Behelmoth, where he was actually mentoring. None in the new maps so far. And truthfully, who cares if people Apple up at places like the Maw. No one is serious at that type of event anyway.

If people complain about Apple-ing up in non important places then it only make trolls decide “Urge To Apple Rising!”

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ANet may give it to you.

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Posted by: Bytestorm.8021

Bytestorm.8021

There is one simple solution: an option to turn off mentor tags. This way rookies see them until they don’t need them anymore and switch of the visibility.