i love being a warmie and have done so since years before the great web migration. i have wanted to see things happen with warmies that has and hasnt happened. i have seen spells that i had come to know and love be murdered and hideously transformed to impotent shadows of themselves. i have also seen puny so-called first tier spells get injected with steroids to become the staple of my reccommended target dietary intake. one thing that i have come to understand and looked forward to changing is the fact that warmies are supposed to be solitary.

i wholeheartedly agree with some mages being solitary is they so choose. the current system, however, forces us all to be solitary. now, dont get me wrong: i am as much for bonuses and easy ways of learning as anyone else. i dont, however, think that an apprenticeship program with extra learning incentives is the answer. why not take the easier, self initiated path and start teaching in the guilds? just keep showing up and ask if people want to come in and listen to a class. i think that is the reason that mana outside the xing guild is so bad... to make people go inside. and what is wrong with the only benifit of this teaching be the information shared? teaching learned and lessons taught? why should there be a faster learning rates?

another alternative would be to try to organize war mage mentor nights? yep... you heard right... a war mage mentor to teach the basic ins and outs of being a warmie in elanthia. just like the barbs, moonies, clerics, pallies, puffs, rangas, teefs (as if there should be any overt organization here), and bards. every other guild has guild specific mentors and guild specific mentor nights during the month.

i could go on, but i have already talked too much. you all get my point: why not just start teaching in the guild? you have to know more skill than someone else to teach them, so you know that person may be less experienced than you. while you are teaching, you have a captive audience to inform of your best learning methods in all sorts of areas. ooohhh... maybe it would help to bring back the bonus to teaching that lecturing while teaching gave, if there ever was one.