New way of helping people: "Hero Dropping"

In my opinion, one of the greatest way of helping people on the earlier mission is by Hero Dropping. What is Hero Dropping? It's simply dropping your heroes in a party by taking people, and then leave. On the earlier missions, 3 heroes will easily preform better then 4 human players, making the missions alot easier for them, and it barely costs you anything (less then a minute).

So, just join some parties, invite the heroes they'd like, start the mission, and leave (or stay, if you want to be even nicer ), this can be used for guildies, friends or even random people that can use a couple of level 20 heroes to fight those level 6 Charr!

I can see this quickly become a new method of "running" previously un-runnable missions.

Yay, more ways to gouge nublets out of their hard-earned(ebayed) riches!

Just kidding. Seriously though, someone somewhere will start charging for it.

Yeah, I see people charging for it as well, oh well, you can't stop that, but that's definitly not to make use of it for free, for friends, for guildies, or maybe even for gold (hey, if someone pays for it, why not?). I personally think charging for this is stupid, but it does make a mission take alot shorter, and that's what alot of people would pay for.

I don't understand what you mean. Are you saying that now, when someone drops out/is disconected, they are replaced by heros? And you do this in the beggining of the game to get paid? I don't get it... Why would anyone pay for that?

hmm I noticed a players hero's stay if they drop...

I never thought of that, pair up with a friend, 2 player = 8 slots, after there on there way drop out, they use your hero's

Result
1 player w/ 6 hero's (Party 7/8)

if u have nf, any one of your toons can have a maximum of 3 heroes. disconnecting or leaving once u enter an area/mission will still leave your party with the 3 heroes you brought in.

You are in low level area. You join party with a low level with 2-3 heroes. Enter mission. Party composed of you, friend, heroes. You leave. Friend still have 2-3 L20s at his disposal to "run" him.

I thought people were calling this Hero Pimping when I saw another thread title in this forum with that phrase (glad it's not called that). Surely we can come with a better name than Hero Dropping (makes me think of turds).

We could call them mercenaries maybe? "WTS elite mercs for mission." It has a ring to it.

why not just find someone else and their heroes to play with?

Nah, that's not really helping them, in the long run. A better way to help people is to be good at your profession, let them bring their lower level heroes and stick around to help them through the mission. That way, they get their their heroes leveld up so that they'll be useful ot the other guy in later missions.

Besides, this hero dropping thing can easily be abused by jerks. How? Jerk offers his/her level 20 heroes, even show the victim their skill bar! Then, equips his/her heroes with crap weapons and takes all of their attribute points out, and *TADA* useless AIs!

great for helping but trade will b,

WTB lvl heros for mission
WTS lvl 20 hero's for mission

But is this being nice and helpful or ruining the early stages of the game?
Thats quite debatable imo

Well since this basically lets anyone with 2 accounts run around with 6 heroes always, I think it will probably be 'updated' right out of the game.

once that happens Anet will prolly pull the plug anyway as in they tried for the famous Droknars Runners with changing the spawns and all. Yet that failed but I see the Devs come up with an idea if the player who owns the heros is not in the quest area anymore, they will also disapear.

Besides if you have trouble with fighting Charr, I'd say try another game like runescape or w/e...?

Well seeing as I am adamantly opposed to helping people, I for one will NOT be offering this service.

I can see this being a great way to do Titan quests. My rit just has Titan Source, and 7/8 with 6 heroes starting from Yak's will make that a breeze.

Honestly for as helpful as it is, I am sure people will start SCREAMING for a nerf so that they can further complain about quitters -_- Sorry to have such a negative outlook on it, but that seems to be the way a lot of people view things. I for one find it a great way for me to participate in a mission without having to "participate" or like when I was missioning with my husband who gets constant err7s it was nice to not have to restart for the 3rd time.

Wow, I remember suggesting that something like this might happen back during the beta days for the original GW, when someone suggested that players that get disconnected should have an AI control their character for the rest of the mission/explorable area.

I believe the response to my thought that people might purposely leave to give low levels a higher level character to mission with, was that he hadn’t thought of that possibility, but it wouldn’t matter since the AI would be too dumb to know how to use skill sets that weren’t specially customized for the henchmen.

*ponders whether any other ideas from over a year and a half ago will come true in some form*

I smell money...

I was doing this during the preview event.. Old news. Heroes for Rent. For an extra charge you call the skillset..

The marketing possibilites are endless.