Combat Mentors - From the view of newish player

[SturmChurro]

Actually, googing for answers on an MMO game can very often lead to outdated information.
There are a few good sites that keep things up to date, even SE has a quest and item database for us in the play guide! But if someone doesn't know, they very well could be seeing information posted patches ago, if not from previous expansions.
Youtube's even worse as it's harder to update misinformation, and the "big names" there always try to rush out information on day 0 because it means they can make the most money. I'm still correcting people now and then on ocean fishing mechanics...

So I think having a place to ask experienced players a question is a good thing.
I dunno what Excalibur is like but there's very few bad eggs on Hyperion. At least now. Though too many people use it as a social crutch and even prevent themeslves from getting to ShB because they wanna keep in touch, which I think is a gross misuse of the chats purpose. But hey whatever I don't make the rules.

Oh, I was just repeating the usual statement of like watching a guide or whatever many mentors routinely say, instead of being "obligated" to explain fights or whatever. Even so, I don't think that a mentor system is actually needed when any player can give the same information. Whether or not googled information is up to date or not, doesn't matter. "Experienced" players is relative, as I've seen many mentors give pretty, let's just say, bad info. As for Novice Network in it's current state, I have never even been on the Novice Network on Excalibur, and Hyperion was the server I started the game on, neither have I been on that one. I've only been on the Novice Network with my sprout alt, and that was an enlightening experience.