06 Aug 2006 at 22:37 - 8
At one point, there was no Guild Wars, and noone was any good at it for that very reason.
Then, Guild Wars was released, and people started playing it day after day. For a while, people would be poor players, like trying to cast Healing Seed on themselves and use Mend Ailment to remove Backfire.
Then, over time, these players would become better, and learn from their mistakes. There were, however, some people who did not learn, did not change their habbits, and instead became frustrated and often short tempered.
They would demand help, complain about Guild Wars's 'unfairness', take offense to small things, be offensive themselves, use popular builds to the exclusion of tactics, and generally be unpleasant to be around.
There is not believed to be a cure for this behavior, as many of these people have long since been surpassed by their peers. While their peers play Blessed Light builds without energy management, they use Mo/W's so they have access to Flurry and Hundred Blades, and indeed become more frustrated and short sighted as time goes on.
These people I have described are what is known as "noobs", in contrast to the rest of the population who instead exhibited an metamorphic stage earlier in their career. These people are "new players". People who have recently bought Guild Wars and might be noobs, but instead could be demonstrating the folley of the inexperienced, is a "newbie".
Now, which is the OP?