What would be *really* helpful is if players ranked Knight and above would have 1* and 2* outfits they could put on (including weapons) and just join Squires and Apprentices that want a group for a mission. Make sure they are understanding the point of the mission and provide advice on rooms while you are doing them.

The same is true for mixed sword/gun teaming. Teaching someone how to work *with* the other is valuable knowledge and experience.

Dressing in your Vanguard gear and pretending to 'help' by nuking all the monsters *doesn't teach anyone anything* other than that you are mighty and strong ... which we already know.

I cringe with Apprentices do the 'try out this type of Battle Sprite' mission and never use either of the sprites abilities once.

The missions really are *not* about just killing stuff, really.

wait until the lichens absorb each other and turn red; that makes you get more loot

This has been discussed in many threads, and no one has ever offered any evidence that it is true.

One of the hardest missions for new(ish) players is "Built to destroy". Most of their problems in that missions stem from not blocking rockets and the general walk at enemy and attack mentality) (which becomes rather useless as a plan the further you play in SK).

Well at least the red lichens make fighting them more fun!

Yep. :)

Wait a sec... it is true! I fought 5 normal lichens and I got 40 cr. I fought the big red things and got 45-50 cr.

Good, but that's just one datum. We would need more data, to nail down the difference reasonably well. 10 data would be a start. How many data we actually need depends on how big the difference is. This is the idea of statistically significant differences.