When you leave Coldharbour you should receive a bag that has a bow and heavy chest armor. You can also craft your own bows by collecting the wood across the environment and going to a woodworking station in town.

Daggers are 1 handed and use the dual wield skill line, you need to equip two daggers in order to level it up.

I believe you are referring to the Undaunted and it is a good thing that you joined them because once you completed the dungeon at lvl 12 you can teleport to the other faction's dungeons through the Undaunted. My advice is to join every guild but be picky when it comes to player guilds because you can only be in 5 player guilds.

The max level is 50, but there are 10 more veteran ranks ontop of it. You can also get over 300 skill points.

this may be a repeat depending on who posts before me, but...

1 - you should get a free basic bow once you complete coldharbour - it's in the reward pack that you get - I don't know what happens if you skip the coldharbour sequence.

If you skipped and it didn't give you the reward pack, bows are sold by the woodworker type vendors, IIRC, and of course, if you play long enough, probably, one will drop

a third option, is just to hang out near the crafting stations - it's entirely possible someone would be willing to craft you an easy low-level bow to get you started for free or for a small fee, if you call out asking for such

2 - as far as being a "secondary" weapon, I suppose that's up to you - you get secondary weapon slots at lvl 15, and then having a ranged option really makes sense for a secondary option, but I guess you CAN make it a primary weapon - it'll require a particular playstyle for you, but I suppose it can be done

3 - the weapon skill sets don't *quite* work the way you're describing - 1h and shield is ANY one handed weapon and a shield - so, it could be dagger and shield, axe and shield, mace and shield, etc. Dual wielding is the same thing - it can be 2 daggers, it can be 2 axes, it can be a dagger and an axe, or vice versa - so, daggers use 1h and shield skill and dual wielding skill - so do axes, swords, and maces.

4 - you joined the Undaunted, I expect. Joining guilds is a great idea - currently, there are no limits to how many GAME guilds you can join (like fighter's guild, mages guild, undaunted which is kinda a guild), and each guild you join opens up a new skills line - it's up to you as to whether you want to spend any skill points in the lines ,so joining the guild is basically free skills options - the first quest the undaunted give you is fairly hard, but joining the guild is a good idea, in general.

5 - current max level is 50, although once you hit 50, there's an option to play the other 2 zones, called veteran rank 1 and vet rank 2 - I don't quite know how they work, but there is that option

6 - last I heard, total available skill points in the game are about 300 - that's, presumably, enough points to max out about 2/3rds of the skills any character can have access to, is what I heard last - if anyone tells you differently, you can probably believe them - this is all 2nd hand info and only partly remembered

there - did about the best I could - hope it helps!

If i were you id go back to the starter islands. Sounds like you diddnt do them. I find they are must especially for a new player. The islands really get you in the mood for the game and dont slam you in the face with a huge town right from the start.

Also for above post. You get the box from the prophet even skipping cold harbour.

No no the prophet should have mentioned someone fishing you out of the drink or finding you on the shore, and there should be a quest giver outside of which ever place you woke up. You want to take the quest to go do the level 3 - 8 content you are otherwise missing if you don't do it.