Low levels and Special Tanks [please read]

So i was just in a coop server where at the end we were lucky enough for a shamen to spawn. However things did not go so well and we did not succeed and i noticed that some said, and i quote "Low levels cant fight special tanks" i questioned this and they said they don't have the health to deal with it and told them to stay as far away as possible.

This discouraged the lower level players in the server from even fighting the tanks as when we retried we were lucky enough to get a knight and the low levels stayed away and did nothing to them as this one person had told them they cant do it. This annoyed me because its not right for people to be telling low levels players that they cannot fight these tanks. You are supposed to be assisting them and helping were possible, these tanks are supposed to be a team effort and if you telling team members to not fight then were is the fun in that for them?

Thing is we never even killed the knight and we died when he was on 6000 health. i found this a little funny as if them low levels were actually attacking the tanks we would of probably done this. Upon map reset the same guy that said they "cant fight them" said "why was you on the bridge, man up and fight the tank!".

The fact that you even said these things in the first place is annoying as it discouraged them from fighting but then that he was annoyed because they did as he said was a little more annoying.

Low levels have every right to fight and if the come across any tanks they have not seen before it is okay to ask as many questions as possible, in fact i encourage it because if you don't ask questions then you might be confused and not know what to do and that's not what we want.

 

What's the point of sending low levels to not fight the tank ?

1st - Generally its easier to defeat tank when someone shoots at it
2nd - why would anyone decide what others should do ? (except following the rules)
3rd - low levels are also players and they want to have fun and fight a special tank is both challenging and entertaining.

I remember when i was a low level and everyone should remember that he was a low level too before. We all want to have fun while playing both high and low levels and that is the most important thing .

Such behavior as commanding and pushing low levels aside will make them leave the server and never come back.

Summarizing : Let them play as best as they can and help them instead of yelling .

 

This was covered in my blog post "Treatment Of Low Level Players," and a month before that, a forum topic called "Treatment Of Low Level Players," every slot is equal.