What do you do when a newish player (greenleaf) asks for help in game randomly?

What do you do when a newish player (greenleaf) asks for help in game randomly?

I've had this happen to me a couple of times and I've tried to help as best I can. The first time I tried didn't go so well because I went about it the wrong way. I'm just curious how some other veterans handle it? Just give advice? Run through content with them? Gear them up to a more appropriate level and send them on their way?

Thanks!

Advice is freely given. Help on a duty depends on how I'm feeling. Gear is given at a major discount, but NEVER for free. I help players help themselves, handholding never works well.

If they're asking for advice, I'll pretty much always respond unless afk.

If they're asking for gear / gil, I will not respond at all.

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Originally Posted by Malusion

If they're asking for advice, I'll pretty much always respond unless afk.

If they're asking for gear / gil, I will not respond at all.

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If they're asking for stuff, I'll open up a trade window with them and then go afk and go for a walk.

Newbies I know (someone from RL, someone I invited to play from another game, etc) get 100K and a FC invite, or at least a LS invite. Random people coming up to me on the street get free advice and I always try to respond to questions in shouts, but that's about the extent of it.

Depends on how new they are. I had a level 50 Ninja ask me for advice when I was in the Gridania GC, and he was wearing full strength right sides. After talking to him for about a half hour, it was clear he understood the general idea of how to gear himself, but was simply misguided. So I gave him 2 Web Links (reddit and here), made him full i59 right sides, and a linkshell invite. That was about 3 months ago, and he still plays :).

Call an adult

It depends on what they're asking for, really. Help with advice I have no problem giving. Help with duties/quests I can do if I'm not busy. Like... while I was sitting in Swiftperch last week, I saw someone shouting for help killing some mobs for a quest. It turned out to be a new and somewhat undergeared paladin (af gear, i70 weapon, NQ i70 accessories). I ended up helping him down DD and AV so he could get started on his relic quest, along with giving him some tanking advice. What can I say? I was bored and I have a soft spot for baby tanks. :3

Depends what they are asking for, free gil or stuff. Nope.
If they just want advice on the game, I help as best I can. If I am busy, I offer to add them as a friend or join one of my LSs or FC so I can help with their questions later.

If they ask for help or advice with something i normally try to give my best knowledge on the subject, we all were green leaves(Greenies) once to you know, having some helpful tips is nice, however i don't pass on advice to those ignorant type of people who redu

If someone asks a question and I know the answer then I'll respond, or try to point them in the right direction if I don't. For ls/FC members I will craft low lvl gear for free so long as I have the mats and time. If I have the time and not the mats I'll craft it if they bring them to me. I'll help with duties for fc/ls members depending on if I'm busy or not. Manners go a long way. I don't hand out gil.

Whatever i can help with, within the reasonable, if i were in the other persons position i'd like to get some help as well.

All depends how they're asking and what they're asking for. I'll give advice freely to anyone who's polite, and I've been known to help gear up the poorer adventurers to an acceptable standard, especially those who struggle to tell the difference between melee and mage gear. I don't just throw equipment at anyone who asks, but for those who were friendly and attentive I'd offer it occasionally.

After all, we're all playing the game to enjoy ourselves, and if I can help someone enjoy it a bit more then I'll enjoy it that little bit more myself.

ask them how they found my house!

Thanks for the responses. It's nice to see we all try to help in similar ways.

I love giving advice en sometimes I tend to give some gold to help them get on their way. But I have noticed alot of players (newcomers) who ask for a advice and when you help them, they will cling on to you for more and more and more and more etc. In the past I had a nasty experience where a newcomer was spamming me with requests and gil etc.

Now I give out advice, but other then that, I do nothing else.

I rarely encounter new players who ask for help. A lot of new players that I encounter either ignore help and advice, or actively reject it. I still get the occasional lv 36 gladiator who hasn't unlocked paladin, tanking brayflox with a thaumaturge shield, hooded cotton chest piece, and intelligence jewelry. Or how about the thaumaturge who repeatedly casts thunder on the same target? On one hand, I GET that some people want to play a "final fantasy" game their own way, without interacting with others. That STILL is how I play Diablo or Dark Souls or Assassin's Creed. But when the guy who doesn't want advice is "tanking" stone vigil for a story quest, its to the detriment of three other people.

So, when I DO encounter a new player that wants help and is receptive to suggestions, I am more than happy to set that person on the best path possible. Helping those who want help is helping everyone. We all will eventually run dungeons with newish people, while leveling alts or farming relic quest phases. When people know what to wear, how to move, and what attacks to use, it makes a better game for everyone.

Help them because I'm bored waiting for next raid day anyways? Honestly, helping people is one of the most enjoyable things for me in this game. My GF and 2 friends will need t5 soon and I look forward to that as much as I do t13.

Almost never ( if ever? ) get asked for help though, I wish newbies would be more outspoken. Ask for help guys! The truth is we're bored and got nothing else to do! :D

Playing with newbies is always fun, especially new content because you get to experience their first-time reactions to stuff.

i've helped plenty of people, but i don't think i've ever had someone ask for Gil before. I've given people more free HQ crafts than i've had people actually ask me for anything.

Give them any advice they can ask for and if I can, craft them some nice gear I can make for gil I won't even notice missing anyway, and tell them where they can buy better stuff later. Level 1-15 stuff takes like no effort to HQ (or even get to the point of HQing) and it's important to spread my #brand. Plus, what's less than a pocketful of gil for us is like their ilfe savings. I've never had someone ask me for free stuff, just direction on where to go next.

I used to ignore them if they send me a tell asking for gil. I'd think it's someone's alt.

If a random asks me to help with content, I'll go. I'm usually working on Atma books and waiting on DF anyway.

If anyone asks me for help, I help them. Honestly, I'm more inclined to do so if they're a green leaf. But if they're asking for gil, regardless of leafy status, they're getting ignored from that point on.

Nobody ask for my help because I'm also new :p
Wish to have a junior under me :D

hard to find english speaker green leaf here, mostly are Japan player.

I actually randomly examine green leafs or anyone not 50 and see how they are geared. If their gear isn't correct like a BRD wearing caster pants I will kindly tell them about the stats they need and quickly craft them a piece of gear or weapon on the spot and go about my business.

As a new player I have to say the community here seems to be more patient and friendly than I have experienced playing other MMOs. On others all I generally saw as a response to new players was "lol noob, google!". I found this odd mainly because MMOs need people to survive, more people means a better game experience, so why scare people away?

The first dungeon I did shocked me honestly, having someone kindly explain what to do was something I had not expected and I have experienced this countless times now. Although I know people asking for gil\items is annoying, please believe that you all make this game a much more enjoyable experience by taking the time to help new people and I for one am grateful that people like you exist!

I'm always happy to explain game mechanics or tactics. Coming in a dungeon/trial/raid ... Depends, if the guy has been waiting 45 min in queue as DPS for a required duty to progress the main story, I'll prolly help, unless I'm actually really busy or have to log off soon.

if they have a green leaf, it doesn't matter if they ask or not, they get 10k. I spend about an hour a day in new gridania just giving out money to newbies.

if someone tracks me down specifically, no matter what they want, ill usually get it for them. 500k max investment.

I'm the living embodiment of Rarity, though, so im a little lopsided.

It really depends on what kind of help they are looking for. Of course those asking for gil immediately out of whatever excuses like they can't afford potions for their ailing grandmothers and nothing else will get ignored like how most people here said. I don't mind giving away gils but not to people who wants it right away effortlessly.

However for those who really wanted help in stuffs like their starting classes or NPC/quests/crafts/etc stuff I will spend as much time helping them out so as long as they are interested to know more. Once they're done or have to go, I will ask if they want to add me into FL for future help (Not forcing them to if they don't want it). I don't really mind giving away stuff (not expensive) to help them get through something the first time but anything further I will just advice them how to do it so they actually know how.

I like helping stranger newbies often, since I always forgot what I did on my first day so helping them makes me remember those days.

(For irl friends who just started the game to join me, since they know how we treat each other irl I will usually slap a bag of gil, some gears, on their faces, tell them to figure out everything themselves and then call it a day before heading back into dungeons :U )

I do the usual
New player : shouts/ can someone help me with copperbell dungeon?
Me: 50k gil plz
Others: make a pf etc
Me: helps anyways cuz bored lol

I usually regen spam when i see a nubleaf lala run past me.
I hate those green munchkins.

I try my best to answer their questions. Depending on whether I have the time or I'm absolutely doing nothing, I go out of my way to help them. I've met a few future FC members that way and they've returned the favor even though I never expected them to.

If they're about to do a dungeon and one of my classes is near their level or I need a dungeon drop I will gladly help them since it benefits me as well.

On a side note, every time I see a green leaf pass by I stoneskin them

Tell them to run while they still can...

It mostly depends on what I'm doing and if anybody has already answered the shouts. (I always, always get beaten to it.)

If a greeny actually talked to me though, through tells or whatever, after panicing a bit ('holy crap they are talking to me waaahhhh /shy /shy /shy'), I'd probably help them out if I had the time. I like running through the low level dungeons (a oddity, I know.) and my crafting is such that I could probably help get them geared up on the left if they needed.
Unless they were mooching for gil. Then they can get bent. :p