I had to beat my neighbor's kids to regain my masculinity back.

Jokes aside, it is sad that gaming got to where it is today. My first MMO was RO, I knew absolutely nothing about it and I can't even recall doing any quest in it. Then comes Cabal, I actually did some quest after pure-grinding on RO, I just had fun doing the quest, PK/PVP, at lower level. No instance, no raid. Just me playing with a bunch of people. Then I learn more and more about MMO genre, taking what I learn from previous games to the next. Honestly, it sickens me how people can easily forget that at one point in time, they knew nothing.

I had my own Legion on aion, made mainly for newbies like myself back then, I helped them power-level myself, each one of them. I taught them everything they know about end game dungeons (it was dark poeta at the time. Looooong time ago.) I watched them grow from total nublet who don't even know how to play their own class, I studied their class just to teach them how to play. And then.. Months later, they're all 'leet'. I still help the newer players, help them, teach them. Yet those 'leet' players kept taunting the newbies, telling them to leave the Legion because they're 'useless' and 'dumb' for asking 'obvious' questions. This coming from a bunch of nublet that didn't even know how to choose proper stigma skills and use those Sin rune combos once upon a time. Disbanded the legion due to massive leetness overtaking the legion's original theme. I stayed in Poeta and helped out the newbies while they're still low-level, so they don't get the 'noob' stamp when they make it to cap.

It's human nature to forget one's crappy origin, I guess. And I understand that, punishing end game dungeon/raid that you can only do x times per x days kinda add the pressure to succeed in the first try, but nobody even bothered to teach the 'less skilled' people. Even the other day, my friend and I ran copperbell, and the tank was absolutely clueless how to tank. The other player kept insulting the tank, whining and b*tching during the whole run (said player got level 50 dragoon that failed garuda hm over and over). My friend main as tank but decided to level up cnj for that run, and helped the sucky tank, taught him about the skills, red area/aoe, and guess what? By the end boss, he never lost aggro again (and he seemed to get the handle of multi-mob aggro, something not even I can do just yet).

Like the post in OP said, sometimes, people don't suck out of choice. And just linking posts doesn't work for some people. I find that people learn better when they ask something and you answer, or you teach them in your own words instead of copy-pasting tutorials. Made an FC for newbies, I'm just hoping that whatever happened in Aion doesn't repeat itself here once these newbies made it to end game.

I remember that from my days on AION. Grabbed a bunch of newbies in party to help them with powerleveling, and while helping some gear up for the tougher areas, one left after cussing me out for being too slow. The next day, he saw those same party members but 10 levels above him, and whispered me asking that I help him too. Sadly, I was busy helping the rest of my legion mates, and was again cussed out for being 'selfish'. Luckily the other 3 was polite enough and ended up joining my legion. :3

Speaking of story.. This one is pretty old, and not even XIV. But the moral of the story remains the same in any mmo.



This post has been edited by lightning90: Jan 31 2014, 05:24 AM