Is the NN any benefit? I’m starting to think it is not only useless, but an actual detriment to new players. I’d really love to hear from new players that have recently used the NN and their thoughts.
From the perspective of a mentor, it mainly appears to be a space for mentors to bicker and strut in front of an audience. On my server, roughly half the conversations are petty oneupmanship rants about important to new player topics such as the acceptable minimum DPS of a savage raid AST when coupled with WHM or SCH. That was roughly a 40 minute “discussion” that escalated into name calling and general idiocy.
This behavior has taught new players to build their own hierarchy, with those old hands in Heavensward trying to force wisdom upon the masses still living in the same ignorance they had last week. Toxic doesn’t even begin to describe it.
Rarely, a new player makes the understandable error of asking a question in the NN. The mentorship doesn’t want to answer the question the person actually asked, of course, but the one they think the person is really asking. That’s how you get a question about monk DPS getting an answer of ‘stop TKing every GL3/4. Desperate to win accolades amongst the other nobility, the mentor assumed the new player was doing something wrong and they were going to set it right. In reality, the player was looking at various jobs on the website to see which strikes their fancy.
Very rarely, a new player will type The Words That Shall Not Be Typed: Can someone help me with <insert dungeon, trial, or raid here>? Woe betide the unfortunate that thought the NN was for assistance, particularly that which would require the mentorship to leave their palatial estates, or even more grievously, leave from flexing by the Limsa aetheryte. Nothing will raise the hackles quite like it. At best the player will be met with a chorus of Duty Finder!
If it seems like I’m jaded with NN, it’s because I am. The good and helpful mentors, already a seeming minority, don’t seem to want to deal with the egos in NN and just turn it off, leaving new players at the mercy of the Burger King crowns. Has anyone found a redeeming quality? Something that I might clutch as a life preserver in order to subject myself further to the NN?
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From the perspective of a mentor, it mainly appears to be a space for mentors to bicker and strut in front of an audience. On my server, roughly half the conversations are petty oneupmanship rants about important to new player topics such as the acceptable minimum DPS of a savage raid AST when coupled with WHM or SCH. That was roughly a 40 minute “discussion” that escalated into name calling and general idiocy.
This behavior has taught new players to build their own hierarchy, with those old hands in Heavensward trying to force wisdom upon the masses still living in the same ignorance they had last week. Toxic doesn’t even begin to describe it.
Rarely, a new player makes the understandable error of asking a question in the NN. The mentorship doesn’t want to answer the question the person actually asked, of course, but the one they think the person is really asking. That’s how you get a question about monk DPS getting an answer of ‘stop TKing every GL3/4. Desperate to win accolades amongst the other nobility, the mentor assumed the new player was doing something wrong and they were going to set it right. In reality, the player was looking at various jobs on the website to see which strikes their fancy.
Very rarely, a new player will type The Words That Shall Not Be Typed: Can someone help me with <insert dungeon, trial, or raid here>? Woe betide the unfortunate that thought the NN was for assistance, particularly that which would require the mentorship to leave their palatial estates, or even more grievously, leave from flexing by the Limsa aetheryte. Nothing will raise the hackles quite like it. At best the player will be met with a chorus of Duty Finder!
If it seems like I’m jaded with NN, it’s because I am. The good and helpful mentors, already a seeming minority, don’t seem to want to deal with the egos in NN and just turn it off, leaving new players at the mercy of the Burger King crowns. Has anyone found a redeeming quality? Something that I might clutch as a life preserver in order to subject myself further to the NN?
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