seeing all these total newbie tank is hilarious

[dragonseth07]

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If I didn't enjoy teaching others, I never would have taught university. I do enjoy seeing people learn and grow. But, teaching taught me one thing very clearly: You can only help so much before people have to start being willing to help themselves.

I helped a lot of students with my Biology courses. I would often see the same student repeatedly. I had a lot of sympathy for everyone who was struggling. Eventually, I realized that many of the people coming back weren't putting in any effort on their own. It was simply easier to rely on my office hours for everything. That's when the sympathy dries up, and I see it a LOT here, too. You say we should teach people how to self-improve. It's as simple as using Google, or Reddit, or these forums. We spend our lives on the internet.

Maybe I'm jaded, but I only really help people who are willing to help themselves, and this game has very few of those people, relatively speaking.

Edit: Just to weigh in on the side conversation, exact enmity modifiers are extremely useful, in my opinion. That said, I am a very mathy person, so I make use of that kind of data pretty readily.

[ToasterMan]

If I didn't enjoy teaching others, I never would have taught university.

Then you of all people should know that many people learn differently. Someone could read an entire book on tanking and they still wouldn't understand it until they actually set foot in there and started doing it for themselves. I know this because I am one of those people. It's why people say that university doesn't prepare you for the real world.

It's the same thing for raiding. I can repeat Mr. Happy videos until the cows come home. I'll never truly understand those mechanics until I try doing them. And guess what? I fail at them. Usually multiple times until I get it. Does my raid team make fun of me for it? Of course not. So why should it be okay to do it to new tanks? Especially when we already have a shortage of them?