Creating my character in Angels Online revealed a very familiar feeling. This is because the character creation window looks very similar to that of another well known MMORPG, Ragnarok Online. In Angels Online, you begin in front of an NPC with whom you must speak to in order to choose your first class. Those with MMO experience should already have an idea of what each class does: archer, warrior, magician, summoner, and so on are all pretty standard classes.

Crafting? Not my cup of tea

After picking your class and completing the simple missions given by various NPCs, you are led to a beginner town where you must "Graduate" by earning 5 points from each of the three different tutorials: battle, magic and mine. The Battle and Magic teacher's quests are simple kill quests "Go here and kill 10 of X monster and come back," The final teacher, the "mine" teacher, will give you resource gathering quests which are, for the most part, boring, but introduce you to the resource gathering skills of Angels Online. I have never been much of a crafter in MMOs, but knowing that the game I'm playing has this feature always reassures me that a player run crafting economy exists.