Agreed.
Knowing how to google quests and navigate Wowhead comments is way more important imo than having X number of quests done.
But currently it’s also unclear what they actually consider a new player and thus what type of help they actually expect from the mentors.
Come on someone who has been playing a few months knows the ins and outs of the game. Even they can train someone new, there isn’t much to teach since most things are pretty straight forward, this is more of a social aspect for new players.
Hear, hear. The voice of the prophet!
My honest thought, only multi CE players and multi glad players with a good standing account should be mentor
Interesting idea on paper. Would I be interested?? Maybe, as I’ve spent a lot of time recently helping a couple of new players get started on the M+ treadmill.
As has been mentioned above, it could be used for trolling/flaming in the case of inaccurate information being given.
One possible way would be a 'buddy ’ system where the mentor physically helps said player in a particular quest eg killing Hogger in Westfall. Certainly a very good idea, would like to see how it plans out
Well there is need to be balance. Make the requirements too thin and obviously every random Joe and Jane can become one. This opens doors for trolls who would go there to troll. Hence the “mentor” system’s prestige would get devalued quite quickly…
On the other hand. Making some strict and extremely high bar requirements for some volunteer work? Lets not forget that people are “applying” for no-pay volunteer roles to help the new players. They are not applying to get Access to State secrets (which requires the strictest of strict requirements obviously)…
In an ideal world this wouldn’t be needed, but like all things internet, the bad outweighs the good. For every one “Mentor” who actually does help, you will get 3 players who will abuse for whatever reason unless it is heavily moderated.
But I’ll just leave this here.
“Go not to the Elves for advice, as they will both say yes and no…”
“Is it indeed… Advice is a dangerous gift even from the wise to the wise and all courses may run ill…”
Aha, so you assume your voice is more important than the ones in the thread? Adorable.
That would already exclude you btw.
You dont need years of xp to know how stuff works here. At worst one expansion is enough to get the grid again for any returner.
I don’t think you understand the questions that new players ask or how many CE/Glad players have no idea about things newcomers want to know.
Yes I do, also very experienced players can help better people regarding also addon usage and keybinds and more technical question that surely majority of players cannot help it.
And you think your voice is more important by patrolling these forums acting like a forum police? I don’t know what your problem is but you are obviously not a friendly person.
And there it is, you don’t know. New players aren’t interested in keybinds and add-ons. They just want to get started and learn how to tackle end-game content. You don’t need a hardcore WoW player to explain that.
Please tell me this does not flag you automatically “Guide” and you have to apply to be a guide or have some way to turn it off.
But do they know what my yesterday alliance dinged 120 char with 235 ilvl should do now? Boralus and everywhere is filled with new “!”-'s. HALP!.
If i have to learn something I prefer learning from the best that from the mediocre
Of course, we all do, but sometimes you have to settle with the “mediocre”. Blizzard needs to find the sweet spot - people who know enough about the game to properly introduce new players, and who have the time to do so. If someone regularly has +6 runs, they should know how the system works and for a new player, that’s fine. They’re going to come up with questions like how you find a group, what a fast way is to gear up and how you learn tactics. More or less the same goes for PvP content or end-game single player things such as Visions.
Someone who is in the top 5% would probably be able to accurately answer such questions, but you don’t need them for it. What you need is someone who wants to make the time and maybe do a few runs with players who want to start out. Why hire a professor who specialised in neo-platonism to teach philosophy on a middle school?
The best learns from the best.
Every level needs different attention though. Not sure gladiators are interested in profession questions. Or how to move from A to B in current portalcraft.
Nope
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Sure. But why settle for your opinion if there are professors in educational sciences who know a lot more about this?
Let’s wait for one to show up.