Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure what my point should be really about for this post. I just found that playing with new people who just started from the new f2p system is alot of fun. It’s really nice to see newbie areas with alot of actual newbies running around confused and participating in events that pop up.

It’s pretty easy to get a small chain of new players following you around in a kind of aw with your legendary weapons, who actually look at them like they’re unique and cool again. It’s totally stokes dropping fiery greatswords for them to play with and use up all the charges to fast and beg for another one, or flip them a few gold coins and teach them how to buy better gear from the tp or vendor merchants.

It feels like a breath of fresh air and it’s great fun helping them out when they get face rolled by boars and spiders.

I know people would rather speedrun dungeons, wvw, pvp.. but try it out anyway if you want. There’s lots of people who need help in the beginner areas and the gratification you get after is really nice.

I know this post is weird, but I regret nothing. I found a new way to play the game and wanted to share it with anyone who cares.

Good post.

You quite right. I have always loved playing with new people. Most of them find friends and guilds after a couple of weeks and I never hear from them after that, but I like being able to help. And they refresh my experience. I do not shun the veterans either though.

If anyone, regardless of account type, wants to do something I am only a whisper/mail away. Addresses in the signature.

This post brought me back to some of my first mmo experiences.

I was in awe of the vast world I was in. I played on a pvp server and as I’m running through the forest of one of the early areas I got attacked by someone from the opposite faction. It was my first pvp encounter. I was about to be creamed when all of a sudden this knight, a member of my faction, in glowing white armor on an armored horse charges in and kills the enemy. He saluted me and rode back off into the forest, and a min later 20g shows up in my mail saying welcome to the game. Hope this helps in your journey.

Did I say to myself, “oh he’s such a showoff”! No. It was just a guy who recognized a new player and wanted to help and have a little fun.

I used to be alot more impressed by the fancy things in mmo’s, when everything was new. Sounds like the OP is just perhaps being brought back himself to those early days of playing, as he plays with the newbies.

Whuh?

Helping new players=good. Using it to feed your ego=bad. Helping them means helping them, it is not for you.

I look at the role as being one of offering advice. Like telling someone concentrating on a heart that it will always be there but they probably want to participate in the event that is going on around them.

I was really worried when the game suddenly went F2P, but now I’m actually really glad it did. The flood of new people excited to try out the game has just been great. I’ve been doing all I can to help out new players in the starting areas, and giving away free dyes and just helping new players enjoy the game. So many of them love the game so far and tell me how much they love the community here compared to other MMOs. I’m happy I can be a part of that community.

And of course, it’s always nice to get compliments on the cool gear and skins you worked hard for. <:)

I am still renitent about it, just for becouse the bot invasion that might occur anytime… some mmo’s went like madness bot spam in chat and pm’s

I’ve been joining dungeons with newbies when I’m bored. The other day, I saw “AC p3, final try and we quit.” They were (all level 35-60) on Kohler when I joined, and only 2 alive in the fight, so we wiped. I told them to wp and restart. They were all kind of down about it and they lost another party member with that wipe. So I said, “well the good news is you can skip Kohler and still finish the dungeon.” Their reaction to this news was priceless and we finished without more issues. I’ve found the newbies to bring new fun to dungeons, and I’m always happy to share my knowledge with them.

leftyboy.9358:

This post brought me back to some of my first mmo experiences.

One of my favorite mmo moments was in when I and another newbie somehow through curiosity and a slight case of exploration ocd ended up splattered at the bottom of some sort of dormant volcano. We fell so far we actually changed zones.
Now in this mmo you had to drag your corpse to a special rare location for resurrection or all your stuff that was not in the bank was gone, unless a high level player had the class and mats to rezz you. As our ghosts glanced around we noticed that the mobs roaming around us were actually higher than the max player level of the game. Not good, even if we figured out how to get back the correct way, we wouldn’t be able to even scratch the mobs in our way. Corpse running not likely.
As we lay there lamenting our fate and hard earned gear I got a whisper that asked me to hold on and that they were almost there.
They?
Weeell a guild that had been raiding the area (we fell right into endgame content) saw our failed flight and decided to take a detour to help us out, a long detour.
After rezzing us (which cost their cleric valuable consumables) they buffed us till our ears glowed and informed us that unfortunately they did not have time to escort us out so would we mind stepping trough this portal (again costing veeery expensive consumables) to a major capital?
After we thanked them profusely and tried to pay them with copper coins (all we had) they lol:ed and proceeded almost encumber us to death with their money. The following days we both got mails with crafted gear, money and advice from the guild members and apparently some of their non guild friends.

This made such an impression on me that I always spend some of my playtime helping others (not only newbies). And it creates a positive domino effect I think; people who have been helped remember the feeling and in turn tend to help others.
And that helps the community well I think. =)

rhapsody.3615:

I’ve been joining dungeons with newbies when I’m bored. The other day, I saw “AC p3, final try and we quit.” They were (all level 35-60) on Kohler when I joined, and only 2 alive in the fight, so we wiped. I told them to wp and restart. They were all kind of down about it and they lost another party member with that wipe. So I said, “well the good news is you can skip Kohler and still finish the dungeon.” Their reaction to this news was priceless and we finished without more issues. I’ve found the newbies to bring new fun to dungeons, and I’m always happy to share my knowledge with them.

I’m shaking my head at this…I don’t know what to even say anymore…This is what I feared for the new F2Ps. Every new player now is going to be brainwashed into taking the easy way out for everything, “Skip this skip that!” How will they ever learn how to fight stuff like this in the future when they are ready to buy HoT and you have raids and hard content with similar bosses and they can’t skip it? They will just become like most of the old players we have now, blindly following stuff on the web and guide with no idea how to think for themselves!

Everything in GW 2 exists to build upon the next thing and prepare you for what is next. Running from your problems in life or in anything solves nothing.

If I were going to help them in AC, we will do Kohler how it was meant to be done watching for its tells an dodging right when he does his pulls etc, and no stacking! One they know how to do it the original way Anet programmed it, I then teach the way people “cheat” it with corner stacking etc.