Help them or not ?!!!

I think you guys are arguing apples and oranges here. Who said anything about not helping someone? Last time I checked, this is a game designed for TEAMPLAY. If you're on a team, you're helping each other out, for the common good, a completion of a common goal. Even at the very beginning of the game, you're required to team up with someone to go get a rez signet. I don't know how many times I've teamed up with some random player just to get a rez sig. I helped him, does that make me bad?

Everyone has opinions about what would be "crossing the line" between genuinely helping a new player, and ruining his playing experience. You can't really argue the results - as examples of players obviously in places they don't belong, or too ignorant to listen to advice from experienced players. But is giving a new player in ascalon 500 gold to buy his/her armor "bad"? Or is running a newbie to droknars, giving them 20K for armor, and a green weapon bad? The answers are probably fairly obvious, but in between is where opinions will differ.

There's no reason to argue or get angry at each other. I think we all in a way agree that to help someone is ok, and I do that a lot myself. What I was trying to say was that it is in a manner hurting a new player's overall enjoyment of the game by "handing it to him/her on a platter" so to speak. Of course I have had help from other players in learning how to lure and aggro correctly, what tactics to use when playing a certain character, and even how to do a mission correctly. And in return I do what I can to teach others what I have learned.

As an example of what I have avoided, however, was doing a low-level mission or quest with a low level character (say, lower than level 15) in a party consisting of one or more level 20 characters. Many times while playing new characters I have had offers from level 20's to help with low level missions and quests, but I just didn't want this kind of help. I wanted the mission/quest to be the challenge that it was designed to be. I think that back then before running people everywhere got so popular, a lot of level 20's with nothing else to do spent their time trying to help low levels with the lower level part of the game. Anyway, this is just my opinion and how I want to play GW. I think if a low level player asked me as a level 20 to help with a lower level mission, I would not actually refuse, but I would ask the player if he/she was really sure that this was wanted.