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This is why I stopped playing the game around MC times, I was lvl ~40 and all my friends were level 60. I would get ganked all the time and was still new to the game and no one ever helped me out. Everytime I asked for help I got stupid responses like "OMFG check Thottbot noob." This was very frustrating, and caused me to unsub. Eventually I came back (I still don't know why) caught up to people. (After playing competetive FPS games and knowing you have people that can help you, finding a good guild was partly the answer).
To this day we have 3 people that raid in my guild and wanted to join my guild because I helped them when they were a lowbie. I answer stupid questions in trade chat as well as heal lower level instances. Sure people probably take advantage of me (I do give away a fair amount of gold here and there as well as assorted slot bags.) But knowing that some "noob" has been asking how to get to Decolace for the past 30 mins with no help makes me think of when I was in their shoes. Helping people most of the time only takes a few minutes. But sadly just like someone said on the 1st page WoW is a very selfish game and there's really no way to counter it. (This is also why World/Organized PvP is dead.) People want rewards and/or gold. Heck that's why the only group quests you can find members for are for the dailies so people get them done faster.
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Then you get into the arguement that this game doesn't really teach you how to "play" your character/class right, again you have to find the right people to teach you and some people won't give you the time of day. I don't know how many priest I talk to everyday and explain to them how they heal wrong. (Ex. Why am I OOM healing Bloodfurnace at Lvl 70) This is why I'm scared to level my Hunter because I know the priest that's healing my Pug will probably spamming flash heal rank 7 on all boss fights or something crazy.
I encourage all people to take the time to help a lowbie, consider it a good deed, but i do not forsee any sort of mentoring change added anytime soon.
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