Newbie Mesmer needs help!!!

Okay guys, I just bought Guild Wars Factions yesterday, I've never played any MMORPG before, and quite frankly, I'm sucking.

I started my quests to go find the Mesmer instructor, had to go free some guy from a hex that made him hungry and have killed a slew of monsters, but I can not for the life of me, anywhere in the entire world, find the Mesmer trainer.

I've completed some quests to recover a chest, clear some Naga out of the water supply etc etc, and now I have no quests, no objectives, no nothing. Still haven't found the Mesmer trainer and have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing now with no quests and no objectives.

Is there anyone out there willing to help a pwnt newb and direct me where the heck to go, or what to do to get some objectives? All the instructors at Shea Jing tell me is to find my instructor, but they've gone missing!! Help!!!

According to www.guildwiki.org (< bookmoark that site, it's a great resource) you need to talk to Mei Ling (the NPC who gave you the Cleanse the Shrine quest) and she will give you the quest Track Down Lo Sha.

Thank you very much! Now if I can just remember where the heck Mei Ling was so I can talk to her. I've tried talking to every NPC on the island I think and can't find her. I'm beginning to question if I'm cut out for MMORPG's. Kind of a steep learning curve. Hell, my entire RPG experience up to this point is the KOTOR titles and Fable The Lost Chapters. Not much of a base for jumping into this complicated world!

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Mei_Ling

^^^That's everything about Mei Ling.

Also, you are right about the learning curve thing. Factions has an extremely steep learning curve, and it isn't newbie-friendly at all. I suggest you leave Factions for a time, and try out the first campaign, Prophecies, first. The curve is much smoother on that campaign, and it's alot better for new players. It's also equally fun

Hang on in there buddy - sure, Factions has a steep learning curve but it's well worth the effort.

Prophecies was my first online multiplayer romp too, and it's certainly a world away from KotOR and Fable (great though those games were).

I've been playing for 8 months, my favourite character is the Warrior, and I am now at the stage where I'm not-very-good-at-all

Even though I'm rubbish at the game, I love it to pieces - I have an XBox 360 that's been used for about one hour, gathering dust because THIS is the only game worth playing.

For what it's worth, as stated many times in this forum, Prophecies is a much better place to start - it gives you a very good grasp of the basics before it releases you into the harder areas of the game.

By the way; Mesmer? Brave choice! You've picked one of the hardest classes to play efficiently. Most ignorant groups won't pick a Mesmer as there's no indication that they're actually achieving anything. But a Mesmer in the right hands is an awesome weapon. Just ask my mate Sizerdrix

Good luck and good playing.

Unlike other games Guild Wars is very indept on where to go, follow the compass arrows, Press M to view the map, or read the skill log where to go.

Welcome to GW:F! There's a ton of stuff to learn, so don't be afraid to ask questions. As stated, Guildwiki is a great source for info of all kinds.

I primarily play Mesmer, and it's tons of fun. There's lots of good info on these forums about making a good Mesmer build (and all professions, for that matter).

Off topic: Thanks for killing me tonight, Fiery. I wasn't having much fun being stuck in that bridge! (I should have started dancing, tho)

That's part of my problem. Once I found the hungry instructor and took the hex off of him, my quest arrow disappeared. When I started the Naga quest (clear the naga from the water source) I had my compass arrow back, however only for the Naga quest and when it was done, the arrow went bye bye again. I would have thought that if I was supposed to go talk to mei ling again, it would have pointed me back at her. Maybe a game glitch, or am I just supposed to know where she is?

Thanks for the encouragement too folks. It looks like it could be a very interesting and fun game, if I don't get overly frustrated with not knowing what I'm doing before I can start to enjoy it.

Sounds like you're enjoying GW

The link to guildwiki in the above post includes a map of where to find Mei Ling.

If you open up your Quest Dialog (hotkey "L" by default), it will give you a list of all the quests you're currently on (sometimes quite a lot). Selecting a quest will display the intro dialog for the quest, the objectives you've already completed, and one or more objectives remaining. Selecting a quest in this dialog will also cause the green arrow/star for that particular quest to show up on your compass and map.

There are a few quests in the game that have indefinite locations, where the quest locator may be confusing or not present, but they're really rare. Everything on Shing Jea Island should have a clear quest indicator, as long as you select the appropriate quest out of your quest log.

But the OP already said:

Thus the instructions above to follow the map on guildwiki. Another idea is to look around Sunqua Vale for the green exclamation point.

BTW, the secondary trainer is Lo Sha, located in Kinya Province. Although, since you refer in your post that you did the quest with the chest, it sounds like you did this secondary quest as well. In which case, you need to talk with Master Togo. After this, you go back to the Monastery and talk with the Headmasters to do the quests for the secondary profession. You don't have to do all of them, but you have to do the ones for the secondary profession that you are going to choose.

Either there is a bug, or you mistakenly already did the quest. There is also a chance that you rejected the folow-up quest, once you talked to the master in Shing Jea. Normally there should have been a follow-up quest after talking to the mesmer master in town.
Personally I think you rejected the Quest of Mei Ling (name?), thus you are now on a dead end. You have to talk to her again.

Like Swinging Fists said, it sounds like you've already completed the two early mesmer training quests. You should have a quest telling you to go see Master Togo. Perhaps you already did that, and didn't take any of the quests he offered you. I'd go see Master Togo and see if he has any quests for you.

I recommend that you do all of the secondary profession quests before choosing a secondary since you're new to GW.

You hit the nail on the head. It's master Togo I need to go find and talk to!! Thank you!!! That said however, without knowing I needed to talk to Togo, I have talked to every NPC at the monastery a couple of times and none of them had an exclamation point, nor any further instructions for me. Maybe I somehow missed him?

Quests become available depending on what you've already done. So I suspect you got to a point where there are no more available quests until you've chosen a secondary profession. Master Togo is in Linnox (?) Courtyard, which you can get to from Shing Jea Monastery. Look for an exit that leads you there.

aww 'big kiss to OP'

dont worry you will soon be on the right track...

have to admit my first fac char i turned down a quest and it took me ages to find my feet... u got an advantage tho, u posted here and you will get a lot of help and support. gl with it

and togo likes to hide with his buddy in the park

You hit the nail on the head, in that I have no quests listed in my quest dialog. I think it likely is master Togo that I need to go find and talk to, however without knowing I needed to talk to Togo, I have talked to every NPC at the monastery a couple of times and none of them had an exclamation point, nor any further instructions for me. Maybe I somehow missed him?

Quests become available depending on what you've already done. So I suspect you got to a point where there are no more available quests until you've chosen a secondary profession. Master Togo is in Linnox (?) Courtyard, which you can get to from Shing Jea Monastery. Look for an exit that leads you there.

Thanks all for your help and suggestions! I finally found Togo, chose my second profession (Monk), which I think was a mistake because now I have to stay alive for 2 minutes while getting the crap knocked out of my by two instructors and, well, in 5 tries the longest I've made it is like 46 seconds and I'm beyond frustrated at this point.

I think I'm going to have to face facts and admit I'm not cut out for the MMORPG scene. This game is just way too complex to jump in blind with no prior experience with this type of game. I thought my time with Fable TLC and KOTOR 1&2 might help me, but this is just so much more complex than those and I just feel like I'm flying blind constantly. Kind of like going into advanced trigonometry mid semester when all you have taken before was Algebra 1.