All of my max toons are guides, love helping new players
Why can’t I do it on my low level? Annoyed that when I level through dungeons, questing, etc. I can’t see if a player is new
What gives?
Because other new players will see a level 16 and think they don’t know anything. They won’t know any better. A level 80 looks better on paper
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Well sure, but if only people with accounts who are able to become guides are the only guides, then level shouldn’t matter. I really can’t imagine that a great deal of new players would look at the guide icon, then the level, and think “impossible that this player would have other max level toons”. Iunno
I can’t even imagine being upset over something like this. The solution is easy. Just level up and then you’re good to go. It’s nice that you wanna help people, but I agree that if I saw somebody else who was a lower level than me, trying to tell me how to play my class or what to do in the game I would scratch my head and walk the other way.
I agree with the op, If he has experience with the dungeon he should qualify to be a guide.
It’s not his fault wow made them multilevel .
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That has nothing to do with anything. Being a guide gives you access to a chat channel for freshies…being the leader of a dungeon is not any way the same or even taken seriously. Anyone who clicks the flag button on the signup can be chosen to “lead”…guides have to meet a VERY lax requirement supposedly proving they are qualified to help freshies with questions/knowledge.
You know I read this three times and what i got out of it was the nice name for noobs is freshies now.
Why do we even need a different channel than party chat? It probably wouldn’t be necessary in a normal paced dungeon as opposed to Super Mario tank aggros everything in seconds. We managed it without guides somehow.
I call them that. The funniest are the ones who are “VaNiLlA vEtS” who “took a break”…for 10+ years who get obstinate about being tagged as a freshie.
The intent for freshie chat is for players to have a region wide place to ask questions/get advice. Plenty of people do not do dungeons while leveling because they are a waste of time (among other reasons).
You ALSO already still have party chat for dungeons anyway and it absolutely gets used…what isn’t really a thing is the designated “party leader” actually doing any LEADING. Push W and kill the stuff on the way. Bosses don’t really have mechanics needing explaining and most dungeons it’s all but impossible to get lost in.
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I kinda get what you’re putting down OP.
Being below 70 even lets you Chromie phase into helping with some of the problems people might be having.
At the moment you’ll be able to assist through text and maybe party syncing to be with them, but that could be a handful to explain to someone new too.
Do you really want the level 3 Draenei, from Moon Guard whom hangs out in Lion’s Pride Inn all day, guiding players to new experiences?
Maybe I’m wrong but I thought it used to be that if you had x amount of guides then your alts could be guides after level 20?
Sure?
The requirement to be a guide is just being level 70 or whatever and having done 3,000 quests. It’s not like you suddenly forget how to play the game when you log onto an alt.
The indicator that someone “knows what they’re talking about” is the guide status, not the level. An actual new player probably doesn’t even know how to shift click to see what someone’s level is in the first place.
Probably for the same reason that there are other requires besides level.