Although I understand where you come from and I esteem the ideas you try to lay out here (I generally try to abide by them, strangely for egotistical reasons), you make a little too much value judgements for that idea to have any practical use.
And furthermore, it is a little bit hypocritical.
You assume I didn't think my answer would be beneficial, as if you are the judge. And you try to project your ideals on me aswell: your civility is your own, do not expect me to abide by the same personal rules.
And if you avoid engaging with people if you think it won't be beneficial, why belittle me? Was it truly necessary if your aim was to being kind to the OP, and comfort him? What benefit does it provide me to be called crappy and condescending when I am not?
Especially since OP defended his position perfectly well. He stated he was perfectly OK with being inexperienced (and indeed, it is not a fault), and stated that he thought collecting a lot of advice was surely beneficial to him (to which I disagree, but we simply agree to disagree).
I have noticed that the OP is quite excited about the game, and try to communicate his enthusiasm before even playing the game. That's cool and that's not my business, but I noticed that he was collecting a lot of bad advice because the people reacting to his enthusiasm were probably mostly people like him: inexperienced and enthusiasts aswell. He was attracting his own kind. Thus, I thought that me throwing more advice (even good advice) was not a good idea. There is already too much noise in his head. Playing the game will make him discard the noise (the faulty advice). It is the only way in my opinion, as he is unable to tell what is actually good advice in his current state.
Since he was inquiring about dual wands mages, I simply stated they were OK.
You yourself admitted you were new to the game aswell I believe?
It is not always nice to be nice.
