The new age of gimps

[Chai]

We learned the Shroud by doing the Shroud...no one had Harry beaters because we didn't know what was needed yet.

We had transmuters, which were basically the "if nothing else in your inventory breaks DR, this will" weapon. /nerf

We didn't know the puzzles, we took the time to learn those.
We didn't know the spawn pattern of the portals, we took the time to learn those.
We didn't know how to kill the part two lieutenants, we learned how.
We didn't know anything about it, but we actually took the time to learn.

Yeap, how many opportunities are there like this now? We cant stand around and banter this and then not teach people. Showing people how to play this game is like investing in stock shares of never having to group with noobs ever again. When the stock matures and splits enough times, you will then have a decent circle of people to group with who know whats up.

I dont see the majority of experienced players doing this however. What most do, is hang out in their own diminishing circle of old school friends and keep to themselves, but when they need to run a raid they cant short man or want to try a PUG for a change, hilarity ensues, and the end result is these wonderful rant threads we see on the forums about how the quality of play is diminishing.

Why do all these noobs suck? Its because when the floodgates opened after F2P the majority of vets retreated into their shells and invested NOTHING in the quality of play on their servers. When most of their old school friends left, they realized they will have to PUG / make new friends in order to enjoy playing DDO. We are now reaping what was sewed then, and will continue to do so.

I applaud those who do teach people how to play this game, as this is the right approach to the situation.