These are the kind of posts I look for every day but hardly ever see. I too occasionally get asked to help a "noobie" and get some good feelings from it. Recently, my best game friend and I (both lvl 31 Warlocks) were in the Tower when a lvl 6 player asked me to help him. I told my friend that I was curious why a lvl 6 would want me to join him and maybe he had another character of higher lvl he would switch to for NF or whatever he wanted. As it turns out - it was a 9 yr old boy stuck on a mission. After we did it (allowing him to get the majority of kills for XP) - he acclaimed "you guys are going to be my best friends in the whole world." She and I had such a nice chuckle and such a good feeling from helping him out it is hard to describe. Hearing him yell out in happiness that he moved up to lvl 7 was pure ambrosia. And you are right sir, we were all new at some point. We all were feeling our way around stumbling and falling off cliffs and such (I still do that occasionally lol) and we all had to work on leveling up our toons and guns and armor. Some of us were often teamed with a player or two that progressed super fast and watched in awe as he shot his Exotic weapon and killed so easily. Now a new crop of what are called "Christmas Noobies" abound and some have a pretty new IB - hey I just bought mine too, lol - and are having a blast shooting at everything that walks. This is just a game and way too many players take it as it is real life and it matters so very much. Hey, I can't get this bloody game out of my mind all day long until I come home from work to play it but it still remains a game no matter how glorious or sucky as some of you think it is. That is the reason people shouldn't vent in the way they so often do - like someone suckerpunced their mom or something. We all can play this game in the manner that most satisfies us. Some of us are studs (not me boo hoo) and can wade in and blast anything to smithereens. Others like me have to take cover and use a more careful approach looking to revive my mates, snipe away with my pretty new IB and often wade in as well and pound and ground with my COV or MIDA or grenades or super or something. I don't care if a player on my team is laying back and doing damage to something. I only don't care for those that might never shoot a bullet or pulse or whatever or maybe worse leave the fireteam leaving only myself and another at most to do the rest. OK on most strikes since I could solo most of them like most of you can as well - but some are harder and would take way too much time to do it solo so that sucks to do that. I have to believe that when I go into a strike and most of the time the other two are just hanging back that they are looking at each others' profiles and using that to determine if they will play with them or not. That is just moronic. I will play with anyone at any age, whichever gender, no matter whether they are a raid or crucible stud or both or neither like me, lol. I hold my own in any strike. Sometimes I do make mistakes like in last nights run at NF. I died just before the last part because the other two ran in with their sparrows past the gobs of ads we all left to focus on the tank. I tried to get in and got killed. Next time if that happens - I lay back kill them all with my IB and then waltz into the last part and probably kill the big boss as I very often do. I know fellows that this is all just a rant - but be patient with me as I am at work - frustrated I can't be home on this bloody rainy day to play instead and am typing so fast so I can get back to working. I do love to play with anyone who wants to play with me at any level and my psn is the same as above and PS4, with mic. I am 54. have carpal tunnel which does slow me up after playing for a couple of hours and I always show respect to my mates regardless of age or gender. That is me, AnthonyR1969 in a nutshell. I am glad once again to read this post by a real nice guy so thanks fellow Guardian.

Awesome work guardian. It's such a nice feeling seeing how excited they get when you help them. I had a newbie yesterday telling his dad 'a 31 is helping me out dad, she is helping me level up'. The kid was so excited and kept thanking me at the end of each story, it was so cute :)

These are the posts I want to read. No complaining, no "fix this or I'm leaving" demands, this is what the community should be about.