Quote Originally Posted by Zadood View Post
It's kinda sad that the concept of "Let your deeds and actions speak about your character" is getting more and more uncommon, and now peoples are looking at numbers to gauge whether a person is kind or not.

While it's understandable that those number is a simple and easy way to vouch for a person's character, but I think we shouldn't be too reliant on it to judge a person.
To further expand upon it, and while I am a high end raider/pvper and probably fall into the semi-hardcore or hardcore categories of players, and I have academical knowledge of a lot of systems, tiering, rotational depth, savage/ultimate experience and whatnot, the times all of this actually come into question in NN is almost nill (but not completely). The actual mentors doing most of the heavy lifting are the ones actually answering kindly to sprout questions, and the ones queuing up with them for their sprout dungeons or roulettes, which I also try doing. And the too few ones actually mass inviting sprouts. It's important honest work.

The kind of very specific knowledge I have though, or the same way that I know next to nothing when it comes to gold saucer things, well another mentor will be a gold saucer expert and will be able to answer to new players when they have questions on gold saucer stuff. So even if you don't know everything, one, you don't even need to, and two, someone else who has the expertise in it will have the answer anyway. And the ones that have very little academical knowledge can still help sprouts more directly in their dungeons or quests and whatnot. There is no shortage of help one can provide no matter one's own specialization in the game.