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Please read the section on grouping.

Thanks!

(Go grab a newbie group, and go out and make dreams!)

I think any new player to the game at this point needs to start reading their profession forums at least. It's the only way to maintain long term interest and create Vets from Newbs. There are people I've played with since launch who never read the boards, and the changes to the game cause them much strife. If they'd read the forums they'd be on top of things more often, and without regular forum posts the game doesn't change for the best.

I have been practicing this kind of thing for ages. dont realy do it for the combat profesions much cause I dont activly seek out n00bs to help. however on my musician I dont know how many sets of the startign 5 insturments I have made. I see ANYONE playing a slitherhorn and I crank out the 3 entertainer insturments and give em to them at no cost. I then check to see if they know how all the entertainer experience works (I have met people who are halfway to master musician who still dont know your music exp is based off your instument and not the song you play.) most of the time these people dont stick with the profesion and thats fine with me its not for everyone and I would rather help 10 people who quit than 1 who turns out to be an afk buffbot. (Thank god we dont have many of those on my musicians server) and if they are still drabed in newbie clothes (or worse yet, hotpants for guys or a loot exotic leotard for gals) I take them to the shoping city and we get em something decent.

Great post

First of all: A great post!

Second my 2 cents to all this:
How to help artisans: Explain to them what high and low quality ressources are (the new quality bar helps a lot ) and tell them how this will affect their creations. Show them that high quality items will be sold quite well even when made by newbies and as already posted tell them about good prices. Good prices are those that are cheap enough to inspire someone to buy and high enough to pay out for the seller. Check the bazaars with them together and show/teach by examples what you would buy and what not, if you were new and hadn't got enough money to buy everything.
I strongly recommend anyone doing the newbie missions because they not only provide you with some extra xp, some starter items but with about 2.5-3k money for each completet one too. When starting a new char I do them myself again and again. Just an easy way to earn money with a little work.

The dream newbie (even a nightmare is a dream ;-)):
First of all I hate those guys, who just pop into the game and beg for money to buy the best weapons and/or armor instantly. Usually I tell them to do some missions but fall on deaf ears. Those didn't get anything from me. :-P
I play for about 5-6 month now and yesterday I could afford to buy me my first composite armor. Until then I ran around with hand crafted mabari and leather armor. Ok maybe I died 10 or 20 times more but thats life, you won't get sugar blown into your ass all the time. And I bet I hadn't less fun than those whiners with top equipment from the start on.

Back to dream newbies: For me these are the guy's who ask a whole mountain of quastions which show they are interested into the deeper things of the game and not only want to get the best mechanics for power grinding(i.e. "How does that count? How does function xy? NOT: "How do I get Jedi in one week" :-D). I like those guys who try to RP a bit and have made up some own ideas even before stepping into this new world (even if they have to change their minds due to special circumstances/bugs/game mechanics and change their character too) and who try to get those ideas alive. I like those guys who ask for help if they are in dire need of it and try to learn for themself as much as they can, those who pop in sometimes to tell your of their own first newbie. Then I know the seed has fallen on fertile ground.