State of the game

[PCS92]

I am very sorry to hear that you had such a bad experience in the Novice Network... It is sadly but true that NN is not the best place to get info for novices or for anything else, which is pretty ironic when you think about the name of the chat. Of course mentors should answer you in a respectful manner and help you as best they can, if you have a genuine question about something. I also do not think that this should be normal mentor behavior, and I don't think anybody should accept it either. Granted you did reply back and were passive aggressive in your response, which is not something I would recommend.., my advice is not to be passive aggressive in return and just leave, report these people for abusing the mentor status, and maybe even for harassment (and I am not saying that lightly either). I do not defend precious touchy snowflakes either.., if you can't handle the fact there exist people who might say or do something that were not intended to be offensive or malicious but you find them to be because of reasons.., you probably should just stay off the internet and online games in general. But back to the topic.., I have a mentor status, and I would never replied to you like that. I would never reply in a bad manner regardless of circumstance, because mentors are supposed to show by example, not only to how you do thing in the game, but on how we communicate to each others as players. Unfortunately toxic people exist everywhere and in every mmo, and I hope these instances do not cloud your judgement of the game. There are many good people in this game and they should not be hard to find, but if someone is being a douche for no good reason and at least if you are not a douche you should just stay away for them, probably blacklist them and report them if it is really bad.

I too have found FFXIV community to be maybe the friendliest mmo to date, and I speak with many years of experience with this game. I have met many good people, and had some of the most friendliest player interactions in this game. I can pick one from memory I had when I just started to play this game in earnest. I started as Paladin in this game and I had played tank in other mmos, but I didn't know how to properly hold aggro in the beginning. So somebody in the party said that I should use flash at the start of the battle before using the combos and in between my combos. Since then I have never had problems with holding aggro, and I may have stumbled and fell a couple more times, maybe even get pretty toxic reactions at some point if I hadn't gotten this info so early in the game. I don't know how the newbie experience is today compared to when I started, I was maybe even lucky but no one should have players yell at you when you are new to the game and learning the ropes or even asking questions about something because you need directions. Continuing...