Let’s shoot all the beginners and get over it already!
Jokes aside. It took a long time to read all posts here and I would feel as an outsider if I don’t reply all.
First the facts! Let’s be honest, the game itself a bit tricky, provides only basic informations and requires a good enough english knowledge or translation pack. I don’t remember exactly who but some time ago, a person posted here ‘‘you need a phd to play this game’’. It’s kinda true. You need to do good amount of research to play GD properly. How do you research? By reading existing materials such as beginner guides and mechanic guides. Or you test by yourself but the second option might take a huge amount of time and creates the possibility of overlooking some important things.
I bought the game blindly, because I needed a distraction, I wasn’t even a gamer back then but I needed to stay home and focus something else rather than troubling things. I also started to game blindly, I had some experience in such games so I started as a soldier, thought the easiest start would be physical. After 250 hours and 2 months of testing, experimenting, stashing, creating new characters in order to use interesting items I found(what a mistake!) etc, I couldn’t finished ultimate with a single character. Then I start to do research. Videos didn’t make any sense of me so I mostly read, then created a forum account, kept reading. Decided on a character, created a thread and asked help. Didn’t follow any guides but I certainly needed help and I really don’t see a big difference between following a guide or posting help to improve my toon except one is easy way, other is hard way.
And people helped me. Some kindly, some arrogantly but I appreciate all their efforts. Because I was a slow learner, even after finishing ultimate the first time or killing the lokarr for the first time it took 700-800 hours of me to comprehend the Grim Dawn fully. And that’s not included the research time! I did read a lot of beginner guides after that even though I never followed them. I read discussions and other informative texts to learn how to make a build. All the effort and I wasn’t protoss or nery yet, I had just spent 800 hours to overcome noobness! For a game! Why? Because I really enjoyed it. Even being suck at it was fun because GD has a lot of surprising mechanics and discovering them one by one, step by step felt like being Nikola Tesla or Yuri Gagarin.
So why the hell I did explain all the process I went through? Because, I took the hard way, but if I did follow some guides, make my first toon to be a successful MC farmer it may have shorten the process for me, though I would certainly got bored from it. But everyone is different, maybe some other people get bored from being suck for 200 hours! And even after that, and even now, there were/are things for me to explore in the game. I still read discussions, I also test the information by myself. 1800+ hours and I still learning new things about the game. For example I play legit but I would be damned if some players who use GDstash tested things(hard to test without gdstash) and provided the information with the public. Same applies here, you can like or dislike the beginner build guides, follow or improvise but you can’t disrespect them because all informative texts written by veteran players are explanation of GD for new ur inexperienced players. Because people who make those guides love the game and they want other/new people to love it aswell.
So the beginner guides are mandatory. The people who make them are doing a good, volunteer work! As the people share the knowledge they test. Even though everyone’s attitude and patience is different; new players are lucky to have them. Yes I hate people ask for end-game builds half an hour after they bought the game. I also want every new player improvise at the beginning but the game is really complex without atleast reading some informative guides about mechanics. And not everyone has time to go that way.
Thanks for reading my acedemic paper Forum= Scientific Journal. Reddit= Magazine