[Discussion] We need something to indicate someone is a new player.


I don't know if this has been touched upon and I'm not a fan of making unnecessary comparisons, but one thing that really stood out for me in FFXIV was the newcomer sprout icon. When leveling in FFXIV with my BF, we both hit max level without hearing one single bad comment (he plays tank and is less experienced in MMOs, I play healer mostly and have been playing MMOs for about 6 years), and in WoW we've had multiple toxic comments, since literally our first dungeon together. Everytime we got queued with a more experienced player in FFXIV, they'd do their best to explain the fights, wish us a fun leveling experience, or they just didn't say anything at all, but responded when asked to; In WoW, we get raged at almost every dungeon. Like, how do you expect a newcomer to know every 8 year old mechanic in the game? My boyfriend got raged at for not knowing the mechanics in a Legion instance, and the incident in question wasn't even his fault. I understand everyone wants a fast leveling experience since most people choose to level up in dungeons. I also understand that the communities are entirely different, and that a toxic player will be toxic regardless if someone is new or not, but I can't help but feel like most players would have more empathy if they knew someone's not intentionally trolling mechanics, rather, they're just a new player. Some sort of icon, tag or whatever to indicate that someone's a new player would be a really nice idea, at least to make the leveling experience more peaceful and leave the toxic stuff to max level encounters. This way, if someone gets queued up with a newcomer player and they know they have no patience to complete the instance without explaining a few mechanics and going apeshit over a little wipe, they would have a way to know that and could just leave, instead of being toxic to someone that could be in their first day of playing the game (this is what happened and keeps on happening to us).I don't know if other people have had this or a similar experience, so, what do you think?