To get started first take a look around this place, it's dreary, dead, lots of fighting and there are battle ships around you. Take note of Gorthan, he has a quest for you, "Blood Feud." The requirements for completion are to kill four sea guards. You should ignore Janesa for now. Go east of Gorthan to the fighting that's happening by a burning ship (check your map if you are lost, the red circles are your quest areas!) The Sea Guard are all aggro, so you might want to fight the ones that are already fighting someone so you don't have to travel too far into the fray. Slay four of these guys and head back to Garthan. He has a new quest for you "The Joys of War". Go to the reaper bolt towers (you can pick up "Tomes of Knowledge from Janesa now but don't do it yet) the towers are southwest of Garthan. They are spread out in a row and look like catapults. Pick one and right click it to choose snipe mode. White arrows will now come up on your screen. Choose an enemy and they will zero in on him or her turning red, left click and you will snipe them. Kill enough to end the quest and return to Garthan.
He will now give you the quest "Lingering Darkness".
Your starting zone for the dark elf is The Blighted Isle and your starting area is Narthain Beach. You start off with the spells Cleave Soul (this spell deals ten spirit damage), Fist Of Caine (which deals twenty damage and can attack and enemy long range which is useful for pulling one enemy away from a particularly brutal mob), and Restore Essence (this does exactly what you think it does, restores thirty-three essence to an ally or yourself. Blood Offering, this converts for five seconds thirty action points to thirty essence energy that is used for healing spells).
Killing six dark sprites is easy. Just go southwest of Garthan to the imp-like enemies hovering in the air. These guys are not aggro, so you don't need to worry about running into the middle of them and getting attacked. Upon killing your last sprite, you should now rank up to level 2. Before we go back to hand in the quest, continue up this path until you see "Black Ark Landing' come onto the screen. Hug the right cliff ledge (but don't fall!) to complete Janesca's quest. Let's go back to Janesca. Continue "Tomes of Knowledge" by speaking with Valnak, who is to your right by the boat. Complete it and you are done with this starting zone. Sell any loot you want to get rid of to the merchant and then go to the Career Trainer, select "core training" and get the new skill "Consume Strength". It will deal seventeen damage and sap your enemy's strength. Alright, moving on!
Seawind Glade is behind this place so just go around it to a forest area. Shadow Warriors lurk everywhere in here. Kill six of them (aggro) to complete this quest. After you've done this, look around for a Blade Walker in the middle of this area. Use the Phaos gem on him to mesmerize it and quickly return to Rathus. You have only three minutes, so avoid fighting if you can and hand in this quest. Saril will give you more XP. Now go back to Black Ark Landing and hand in "Dance of Khaine" and "Fallen Kin" to Nehmora. You'll now be Rank 3! Pick up the quest "Lucrative Intrigue" and go to the career trainer to get the skill "Soul Infusion" which gradual heals your target two hundred sixty health over a period of fifteen seconds.
For your next quest, you need to go to Isha's Garden and blackmail Tintha Venomfire. Go southeast out of Black Arc Landing (the middle path). You will come to the Ruins of Nathan and then Isha's Garden. It's a pretty place, isn't it? Tinitha is on the left, take the quests "Pages of Power" and "Halls of Aenarion" from her, also from the Beastmaster, pick up the three quests "Guile's Strength", "Use of Allies", and "Lionbane".
Go back up that path to Black Ark Landing. Continue until you get to a new outpost with lots of NPCs standing around. Nehmora the hag is where you hand in the "Lingering Darkness" quest and also to pick up the quests "Dance of Khaine" and "Fallen Kin".Uthorin Warscout offers a scenario quest, you may not be ready to do this yet so let's not. Let's do the quest, "Dance of Khaine" instead. You are to kill five Sword Novices, go south out of Black Ark Landing and follow the path. You will see a cave you can't go into, so to your left go up the hill. The Sword Novices are there. They are aggro if they aren't already fighting someone, so attack the ones already fighting so again you don't get too far into the fray and attacked by multiple enemies. To the East, you will notice more people. Saril will give you XP, and Rathus will give you the quest "For Amusement's Sake". We can do this one while doing "Fallen Kin", since we will already be inside Seawind Glade.