How do you help new GW players?

Do you give free items or free runs?
Help them in missions?
Teach them about game mechanics?
Give them tips on what to do next?
Help them find the information they are looking for?
Tour them through the UI and basic controls?
Tell them the philosophy behind a skill, a build or a profession?

Let's gather the best ideas of the GW community.

say them to stfu and stop beg for money,spam in public,and think they leet.best eva.

I simply ignore them

I'll give them gameplay tips. I never give free stuff or runs to newbs, but I'll help them get started in other ways.

All those idiots in town just spamming "Gimme 1k for armor/50g to open storage/100 for materials!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I just ignore. If they are incapable of earning the gold needed without begging then they are too stupid to be playing this game.

I tend to refer them to the wiki and occasionally answer questions. That's about the limit of my interaction with anyone that's not in my guild or on my friends list, actually, and that's fine by me.

Still dreading persistence in GW2...

Depends on their attitude and just how little I'm willing to put up with it.

I hate beggars.

If I'm on a character that needs to do something the newbie needs to do, then I'll teach them the ropes along the way.

But beggars get nothing except rudeness from me.

Same here. And I'm not being mean, but in GW, many things do rely on certain knowledge and understanding of both, game world and mechanics.

I have very little useful advice to give to someone I run across randomly. If they're in guild, or approach in some decent manner, and show that they are willing to listen, then I have no problem playing with them or sharing an advice.

For random encounters however, I avoid and ignore them by passion. It just works out better this way for both of us.

The annoying ones however get filtered by disabling of local chat and through use of ignore option.

I do all of the above from the OPs post. As long as they don't ask for money.

Everytime I have ever helped someone do a mission or whatever it hasn't been worth it. Every single one never bothered to thank me and would just rather whine me to help them in the next mission too like I was going to play the game for them. I don't do that anymore. Maybe I'm just unlucky. If I see someone politely asking for help or a question I'd be more than happy to answer.

Because...when I started out someone actually bothered to help me out. They gave my crappy mending wammo a good axe to use and gave me some good tips on gameplay. That really helped me out and made me want to continue!

I never feed the storage beggars. The spam annoys the hell outta me and giving them money to shut up only makes sure that they do it again next time.

I help them if I'm not busy. Yesterday I helped a few people in Pre. I did leave one guy who told me I was dumb for staying in Pre and going for, even after I explained that I was doing it for the Hall of Monuments. I also answer questions in towns. I was in Ascalon City the other day and someone kept asking where the merchant was and so I said hold down ALT and run around until you find him. People seemed surprised by this information and proclaimed me an "expert" GW player.

I get angry when I meet a new player thats in a guild and no one helping them. What's the point of being in a guild if they don't improve your overall GW experience? I recruit in Pre and I've found that if you really help people there they will stay with you.

powering them through missions/giving them free stuff is the oppiste of help, i give words of wisdom tbh . And answer their questions.

I also give beggars the cold shoulder. I don't mind helping newbies when they're sincere, and really appreciate your help. I also don't mind helping with missions and quests etc. It also depends on how difficult the task is they are trying to accomplish. The biggest lesson I teach them is that wiki and guru is your friend.

I try and steer clear of those that take your arm when you offer a hand.

I go to Sardelac and give away weapons with lower reqs (blue & purple). They are not great, but much better than a low-level can get in Ascalon. I'll also give away the collector drops from that area that are required for collector armor. That way, I'm helping them to help themselves.

I also constantly tell players about the wikis and guru when they need information.

I'm not big on giving gold to those asking for it. Once in Piken, a player was asking for 28g for something, someone gave it to him. Later when I mapped back to collect the quest reward, I landed in a different district and there was the same player, once again asking for 28g. So I asked in "All Chat" if he was a professional beggar. He left, but I'm sure just to continue his begging elsewhere.

Of course, that was offset by the player at Shing Jea during a festival who asked to borrow 50g and came back to return it.

werd.... 12 chars

i help them through a mission or two, give them drops i have no use for.

never any money though.

I turn off Local chat, and put panhandlers on Ignore. The only newbies I'm routinely nice to are guild members, and RL family and friends.

- Try not to yell at them too much.
- Set them straight when they ask stupid questions.
- If they act like they genuinely need help, then help them.

I'll answer questions if I know the answer and if I help on missions, I will leave my drops for them to have.

But if they as for materials or gold, I just tell them I don't have any at this time.

I made my way w/o begging for gold or materials, so I know they can too.