New Player...uh.....whoa

[Leshpar]

My best advice to you right now is to just keep playing, and like many others have said, do the main story line quests. You'll be introduced to everything you need to know over time. Don't worry too much about low level gear. If you're used to hotbar MMOs like WoW and GW2 then you'll do fine. Spend time trying to improve your rotation and have fun! Enjoy being a new player and having that wanderlust for everything and not knowing what's around the next corner.

And since noone else has explained it thus far very well: Character creation becomes unavailable when a server is full or near full. If you have a specific server you wish to play on then you can try to make a character there during off peak times (like 2 am or maybe 8 am on a weekday) or pay for a server transfer to whatever server you like. Also, right after maintenance almost all realms open up to character creation. Its annoying, but I understand why they do it. Its to prevent one server from being overpopulated and another server from being completely empty. Basically population balance. My husband and I play on Exodus.