First few hours of SoA

That's worked find for me and I'm now a magnificent level 4 hunter. Now, while all RPGs level you up quickly at the lower levels, it has been something of an unsatisfying process so far. For a start, I've hardly done anything to earn my levels.

The first few levels are not very challenging for any RPGer

All was not lost (only my character) however as I came across a signpost and worked out that I could find my way using this. You would have thought that the minimap would have helped me, but so far I've struggled to decipher it. I thought that the star off to the edge would lead me to my current quest destination, but it doesn't seem to and I can't work out what it is for.

Still, I got there in the end and completed the simple "fetch boy" quest. I've also managed to pick up a few other quests alongside this "main one", but I think that unlike RPGs, in MMOs you can't think of there being a "main" quest, just a current one, because you're talking about a permanent world, a continuous game, rather than a story led RPG. I could be wrong; we'll see how where this quest that's leading me around takes me.

The other unsatisfying part of levelling up in LOTRO so far has been what I've been rewarded with. Basically, you get to choose a new skill, but given that there's only one skill available for these levels, it's not much of a choice. Actually, it's not any choice, so my level 4 hunter is presumably exactly the same as any other. I don't get to choose much at all at the moment. My stats increase each level, it says, but that's automatic. Unlike RPGs, I think most of the customisation is in the clothing and weapons you choose, but that feels slightly unsatisfying at the moment.

[EDIT] Having re-read the manual, I've discovered that the gold arrows in the LOTRO mini-map point in the direction of towns.[/EDIT]

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