What are the first 10 levels like? Quest hub stuff??
beta cake has an impression post I'll summarize and add a bit more since I like most of the people here for the most part.
Noob island is 2-5 levels depending on how much you explore and find. Generally its one over arching quest that moves you around. You really don't have more than 2 or three quests including the side quests at a time. You pick those up in the world and they all work with the main story and change as the main story advances. None really feel like busy work its all advancing the solution to the problem.
If you decide to save people, they will come and help you on the final part. If you ignore or kill them off they won't be there. If they are all there you pretty much walk in and do what you have to do and leave. Story is ok but generic.
Next area is similar you stay there from 4ish to 6. Its an orc area with a pretty good story. Undead, necros, some historical events all in the lore leading up to a final battle here. They drop the name of the next protagonist you'll be dealing with. I enjoyed the story here even if the exploration part was a little lacking in the zone. You really aren't here long.
After that you end up in daggerfall. You do the traditional city quests although there are more weight to these. There is a mini dungeon on the map but there are
no seed quests you are expected to go there on your own. Lots of that in game. If you miss ignore that stuff you will be under leveled and likely under geared.
Plenty of named mobs in the zones outside of Daggerfall. All contribute to achievements / drop loot or have chests near by. chests are valuable. You want to open them. GW2 I would hardly care.
Once you get to the mini dungeon you should be around 6 or so. Story quest and a regular mode for groups. Champs there for groups to kill for loot. Pretty standard. I did enjoy the story part there. group xp and rewards are really good across the board.
Leave exit dagger fall city and you will have mage and fighters guild quests that might be a little high for you. There are a few POI's nearby that have skyshards (give skill points) so you want to hit those. You won't get guided there. As you move out around level 7 you'll hit some witches which is a pretty standard quest. I didn't like that line as much as the others. Makes sense and its ok just kind of bland.
You'll have the choice to move west or east. West you meet a struggling guild trying to get started and rival the fighters guild. I thought it was pretty interesting. East is a town under siege by Lycans. Lots of that in there and quests that deal with it. You get introduced briefly to the main protaingaist of the area while on the orc Bentink area. This ties him in really well and the quest here aside from one run around to find werewolves in town is really well done.
Once you finish that you will have another one of those POI's or three to hit, with bandits, tombs whatever for you to loot and get gear / xp / shards. You move north west some and finish off the lycan story part.
From here you can be smart and notice that the entire western section of your map has shit for you to do. There are no seeds, no one will guide you there. If you miss it you'll be a level or so short and a skill point. There are two pretty nice hubs out there around the 10 or 11 level that MANY people miss because they are stupid and just follow the main story.
When you complete an area. Lets say the town that the furries have taken over and their leader is in. You go through the series to get them out of there. When you do the town is now free of furries. This holds true for you now forever. You do change the world some as you go through. There are other examples of this in the same zone.
I do wish in that particular case some merchants open up or something else besides just the troops cheering you on at first then milling about doing their thing after. Its nice that the werewolves just don't repop though.
So there is a general guide of the first 10 levels or so. Leveling is slower and more meaningful. Around now you would move back near Daggerfall and consider doing some of the mage / fighter quests.
