Guild Wars 2

I have recently thought about how new players may have a hard time in the partly highly hostile community and without any way of help than asking others in the Heart of the Mists or looking up the forums on the official GW2-site ( this one ) or GW2-Guru for example.
So what I have thought can possibly help is an ingame notification and option to get into contact with the top players of each class for example. A list like the one in one of the stickied posts being implemented may help.
Even an ingame program like “Help a newbie!” ( though I am for a different wording ) coupled with a tutorial will surely help new players have a more pleasant experience. Especially when the hotjoins may be scrapped and we get freely accessible Custom Arena Servers. ( I picked this information somewhere up on this site, not sure where and when, I can be wrong though too )
So, what do you guys think ? Any other good ideas or solutions ?
Discuss!

I remember the first time I entered the mists and had no clue of what to do, gladly had some friends that knew and helped me out so this is a good idea!

luxen.8376:

I remember the first time I entered the mists and had no clue of what to do, gladly had some friends that knew and helped me out so this is a good idea!

You still don’t

Go away Luxons, Kurzicks for the win!!! :p
Couldn’t help myself

I will link this though:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/List-of-players-helping-new-players/page/3#post1471308

If any of those guys are still around, they are the ones to ask for help.

The thing is though, not every new player checks the official sPvP-Forum here.
And that is why I would like to see something implemented ingame to help new players as mentioned in my previous post.

It’s not something that’s super important right now, but maybe after they do their marketing push this summer anet could work on something like this, maybe just a “help me” button and a “help others” button that puts players in a networking queue, then after a player helps like 100 new players successfully (post experience “did you figure it out” yes or no button) they are rewarded with a new flashy gear skin (RNG so that they keep doing it attempting to get full set maybe? or just scaling rewards -skins at 100, titles and cooler skins at 500, legendary wep skins at 1,000? -something like that).
Either way, throw in legendary skins after helping like 5k people or so and you’ll see everyone just spam helping in the mists as they wait for queues to pop. -it would have to be cross server though, or else it would get super abused (2 kids sitting in empty mists on rando server just spamming help button on each other)

Zodian.6597:

It’s not something that’s super important right now, but maybe after they do their marketing push this summer anet could work on something like this, maybe just a “help me” button and a “help others” button that puts players in a networking queue, then after a player helps like 100 new players successfully (post experience “did you figure it out” yes or no button) they are rewarded with a new flashy gear skin (RNG so that they keep doing it attempting to get full set maybe? or just scaling rewards -skins at 100, titles and cooler skins at 500, legendary wep skins at 1,000? -something like that).
Either way, throw in legendary skins after helping like 5k people or so and you’ll see everyone just spam helping in the mists as they wait for queues to pop. -it would have to be cross server though, or else it would get super abused (2 kids sitting in empty mists on rando server just spamming help button on each other)

What you’re suggesting is introducing a help grind. The fact that this would completely fit in with the rest of the game is hilarious to me.

Some games have a “mentor” title for players who sign up to help people, and a special chat channel. I think that could work for GW2. There could be prerequisites to becoming a mentor, such as having a low number of forum infractions and high glory rank or leaderboard rank.

The best way to help the new players: tell them to play the game properly and eventually they will get skill and experience.

The best way to help a new player in this game is by telling to uninstall, leave mist and never come back, saves a lot of work/wasted time and it worked for me and many others.

Juan Ignacio.8903:

The best way to help a new player in this game is by telling to uninstall, leave mist and never come back, saves a lot of work/wasted time and it worked for me and many others.

Then why are you still on the forums?

Anyway, I think this is a neat idea if only because I don’t think most of any MMO’s population checks the forums.

Teevell.1684:

Juan Ignacio.8903:

The best way to help a new player in this game is by telling to uninstall, leave mist and never come back, saves a lot of work/wasted time and it worked for me and many others.

Then why are you still on the forums?

Anyway, I think this is a neat idea if only because I don’t think most of any MMO’s population checks the forums.

Im still on the forums becouse i still think that gw2 combat is really good and they got the hardest part on a video game done, but the easiest ones such as game modes rewards etc they are really bad so i check forums to see if there is something new and make negative post.

Part of the problem is a lot of newbies dont use forums and don’t really want help. You have to want help to get it. I know everybody has the heart warming story of the newbies they helped. Too bad for every person you helped there are ten that don’t really want help they just want to solo queue for a laurel and play like a kitten. Yep, I am cynical and its comes through experience. I am not saying don’t try to help others what I am saying is the results of helping others is sadly fairly insiginificant. A inflow of players into tpvp that want to work at getting better will happen when A-net puts reasons in for them to like better rewards for sticking with things and a real solo queue and more options.