The most time spent on a new player.

Okay, first of all, sorry if this is in the wrong forum, couldn't quite decide. Secondly, I searched for this but didn't find anything, sorry if I missed it.
Anyways.

Today, I had this idea after trying to explain for about 45 minutes to a new ele why eles shouldn't have minions, for the most part. (If you actually have a good ele minion build, don't flame, bladdy blah blah, but I doubt that.)

What's the most time you've spent/wasted dealing with a new player?

Another one, today I was trying to give some guy 200g for free in Ascalon City, and I had it in the box and had pressed submit, but he couldn't grasp that HE had to press submit, and just kept saying "plssssssss accept."

I kept whispering him to tell him to submit, and he finally did, after about half an hour.

Discuss

You are a far more patient person than I.
But I would say the longest time I've spent explaining something was in the Underworld. Was with a PUG and the leader was arrogant and ignorant, a real pain in the ass. But we were almost done, only Ice Wastes and Unwelcome Guests left to go. The leader's "plan" ended up getting the entire party wiped during the Ice Wastes quest except for our terra tank, who obviously had no res. Now this was the terra's first time being in the Underworld. So for about the next hour I had to tell him, step by step, how to finish the Unwelcome Guests quest. Amazingly nobody left, except for the leader who dropped a few minutes before the final Keeper died.

I remember accepting to help a newbie in Shing Jea once...

I had to explain everything: ''look down there, those blue thingys are skills, and if you press some of them, it does something!''.

he didnt read his manual, didnt search the net for info, didnt go to wiki, and didnt want to do it. But he kept asking me to explain all that stuff to him...

Like I have a week of my time to waste giving basic information that can easily be found anywhere on the net with little to no effort!

I told him that if he didnt do something to fix that issue, I wouldnt help him at all. And guess what, he didnt do anything. When he understood that I just wouldnt do something so utterly absurd for him, he just left.

That guy was the most idiotic child I've ever met in an MMORPG, and I've played Runescape and WoW for quite some time before I moved to GW.


Edit: to the 2 posters below, that was my point, sorry for not being clear enough.

lol if you dont get GW from the scratch on u better should leave it -.- its so easy to get it

I used to help new players alot. At one point, I spent about 1 hour trying to help an ele from PvP go from a flare ele to the closest thing that person could get as a blindbot. But times have changed, people think their builds are the most godly in the game and Anet makes the game adapt to playerbase rather than the playerbase adapting to the game.

The current environment makes me very reluctant to PuG so I haven't helped new players for quite some time. But for those who have, more power to them.

I have a younger brother who started playing GW bout a year ago now.
i'd already finished all the campains and stuff (had just got my 1st year wen he started) so i thought ye ill help him... since then wenever he needs help with a mish he comes 2 me and asks and i tell him 2 get a PuG, but as mentioned above ther worthless so i do often end up guiding him thru a mish.
have bn doing that non-stop now since EotN came out. i finished it ina month, hes stuck @ oolas -.-;

i spent a few hours just last night helping out a guildie that's new to the game. i dont mind helping people out if they're nice.

Yes, of course Phaedra, but I'm looking for frustrating/funny stories :P

Would a couple weeks count? A guy would ask me at least once a day if I could give him some awesome weapons or shields. One day I just ignored what he asked, haven't heard from him since.

GW! So easy a Charr could do it!

45 minutes?
Trying to teach one thing?

You win.

For me its a matter wether I like that new player or not, If I don't like that player expect me to forget and move on, If I like him I actually befriend him and teach him the ropes.

I have friends I met since they were newbies and now they are good players and we're still friends.

Friends that I don't like usually don't last more than 4 days, The ones I like I can't give an answer to that, could be a lifetime, who knows

- Ganni

One thing that annoys me is if I befriend the newbie and then they get good, and then get better than me and get all rich with chaos gloves, a r9 voltaic, full fow armor, and a torm shield (the usual e-peen) while I'm stuck poor >.>

some new guy asked me for help...
i told him to shut up.

most time i spend on newbies.

Thats not a reason to have regrets, or to go back at him and say: ''You wouldnt be rich if I hadnt helped you!''

I've never had any regrets about helping a newbie, even with the story I put up earlier... I just did what I could.

not sure the longest i've spent on newbies,
I do it the odd time, whe ni see somone looking for help, aslong as they write the words in full...none of the "HALP ME PLZ!!!!!11" OR "CANANY1 GIV ME SOME HALP???????????"
I jsut stay away from them, but if they guinuinly need help i wouldn't mind at all.

on topic prob around 30min but i wouldn't call it wasted.

Seems as if the gw player base is really that low.
Come on, half an hour to get the idea to press "submit"?

Even a dumb foreigner that does not understand your language at all could do that.

I was doing some pretty intense whisper-spam to him too. I even asked him to respond to me via whisper, but he seemed to only understand me in all chat.

on the 2nd year of wintersday (sounds like the beginning of a song ) I had a person spamming in la about one of the quests---the one with the termites and such....I explained the whole quest where to get them etc....but the guy wasnt running on all cylinders and finally I just said fine I will do the quest with you...he was a warrior and I was a smiting monk so we did ok (except his build ....seeing as I didnt have a primary warrior character I couldnt tell him many better skills, but I gave him a few 'ideas').


and then while standing at storage in LA one day a guy was having problems understand armor and runes etc.....again I explained (not quite sure HOW get got to LA without any armor upgrades but---) and then I walked him over to the armor guy and the rune guy.....not sure how long I did that but it was long enough for me to not really answer many long winded questions in LA again.

I have a player that’s been on my Friends list for several months. I met his level 13 Monk at Yak’s Bend where he was having trouble with the quests. I usually avoid Monks because I’ve had several negative experiences with them. However, this particular Monk was a very tiny bald man wearing multi-colored armor. I saw him go out the portal a couple of times so I figured that he was at least trying. I volunteered to help him and, since then, we’ve teamed up to do missions, quests, or dungeons with other characters.

He dyes his armor with whatever color happens to drop so he has some pretty interesting combinations. His Elementalist is a sight to behold.

His builds are always whacked (imho) but I‘ve given up trying to give him any suggestions. He has a tendency to aggro enemies and likes to charge at bosses to see if he can take them down by himself. In spite of everything, we manage to finish whatever it is we’re working on with either some pretty amazing DP or with unexpected results.

He picked up a whole team of people to do the mission at Borlis Pass. They assumed that he was a healing or a protect monk - he was pure smite by that time. That was a disaster.

We met some Level 20 Dervishes tricked out with fancy armor and weapons at Beetletun one time. On our way to Bergen Hot Springs, they tried to tell him that Illusion of Haste was not the best skill for a Monk to have on his bar as he sailed off to meet a pack of Ettins or maybe it was Tengu.

We took my Warrior and his smiting Monk through the Dragon’s Lair mission. He wanted to go for the bonus; I figured we had nothing to lose. We killed Glint. I think his multi-colored armor must have distracted her or maybe it appealed to her somehow.

He got kicked off a team at Arborstone because the size of his Necromancer’s minions didn’t measure up to the team leader’s expectations. He was replaced with Dunkoro. No one even asked about my Ranger’s build.

The last time I talked to him was learning how to farm raptors with his Assassin. I went with him on a couple of his trial runs. It looks like he finally found something where it’s good to aggro everything, including the Boss.