Quote Originally Posted by DanteEnFuego View Post
Now, we also have Iconics with a head start at 15th. I'd rather ask newbs if they want help than run folks off being rude or ignoring them. I actually just had a recent Newb teach me a trick in some Estar challenges, which I hadn't done until recently as well. I thanked him and he reminded me of something I taught him during my TR grind when he was new.
I pick up new tricks from people all the time, too (although many of them I don't really use that much). Most of my best in-game friends are people I helped get started when they were new.

I just don't comprehend what goes through people's heads when they do something like this:

1. See a posting of Chains of Flame on elite, bb, no healer of any kind in group.
2. Click join. Party leader accepts them, says "hi, we just stepped in"
3. Long pause
4. Wher R this quest?
5. *someone shares it*
6. wat pack
7. "Sands"
8. Quest is now 2/3 of the way done, they haven't communicated for 15+ minutes
9. Wher R U guyz
10. "In the quest"
11. I dont see U on map
12. "That's because we're in the quest."
13. Can some1 com get me
14. "Sorry, everyone else is in the quest already." *gives some directions on how to find the quest*
15. 10-minute pause.
16. Some1 com get me
17. U guys are ********
18. Y no 1 come get me

I run this quest on a regular basis. I almost always throw up an LFM because I know a lot of people HATE to run this quest--I'm HAPPY to let them pike it off me. I can probably count on one hand the number of times I've run it without somebody like this joining. I try to boot them at step 4 but sometimes they skip straight to step 8 and I don't get a chance. It just boggles me how often this happens. You can't even HELP them because it apparently takes them 10 minutes to type the words "I'm lost" and upwards of 30 minutes to realize that they don't understand the directions you gave them. Usually 3 people join AFTER them but they can't seem to get organized enough even to follow THOSE people out to the quest--even if someone ASKS them if they want to be led out there they usually don't respond.

What. The. Heck. Yet WE are the ******** because we didn't somehow magically reach through the internet to impress enlightenment into this person's brain. How the heck are you supposed to DO that? I'm not magic.