If people in an MMO are always expected to look elsewhere for game info, it defeats the point of the game being an MMO.
Not really. Conversation between people in an MMO is a big part of the game. But what makes people frustrated is when we have to make macro's for answers because the same question gets asked every 5 minutes. Hence the reason I came to this thread. I was not clear on the Arcane Transmutor so I researched the topic.
Now before you blow your lid and start screaming naughty words hear me out. I understand that a "Free" MMO will attract many people who might not be in tune with, or understand, how MMO's work along with a wide variety of age ranges.
What gets others upset is that, most of the time, it feels like people do not even try to find an answer. They expect someone else to know it and give it to them. When an answer to a question is as simple as pushing "L" and reading. That is when I get frustrated. Because to me that mean's one of two things.
1 - They do not know that pushing "L" will open the quest log. (Newbie)
or
2 - They are just to lazy to read. (Lazy)
This is why you will see many of people (including myself) in zone chat telling someone to read their quest log. It's not that we are being mean, or that we are rude people. We are just trying to tell them that they need to be self sufficient and learn that they can not always depend on someone else to do the work for them.